English essay 4

Parajuli.

Vipan Parajuli

Ms. C. Badeaux

ENGL 102-W3

25 March 2021

Sustainability in Mechanical Engineering

Introduction

Based on my previous assignment, sustainability is where human beings use available resources in the most effective way to address their needs without compromising the availability of similar resources to posterity (Scoones, p. 590). Based on my thesis statement, the government and the key stakeholders such as the mechanical engineers from various fields must join hands to ensure the current generation uses the available resources more efficiently and effectively without depleting similar resources to the future generation.

The government is responsible and accountable for developing sustainable projects that will utilize the limited resources and prevent the next generation from suffering from the consequences of the current generation. The current mechanical engineers have a bigger role in developing sustainable assemblies and sustain growth and development by developing realistic objectives. There have been many controversies on how mechanical engineers select machines that are less prone to tear and wear, allocate resources to the most profitable projects, and find the most effective tools and equipment during the production of goods and services.

Controversies in material selection

Due to advancements in technology, almost in every production area worldwide, there have been numerous industries that create supplementary products. Current engineers use cost-benefit analysis to determine the best tools to withstand wear, tear, rust and erosion. There is a controversy of using cost-benefit analysis in determining the effective tools for the production of goods and services. The cost-benefit analysis is a method that effectively relates the cost of purchasing and tool and the outcome benefit of the same tool.

Through the cost-benefit analysis, engineers will be more likely to purchase less expensive tools to maximize the profit after selling the goods and services produced. Application of the cost-benefit analysis may lead to apparent clarity that will provide the engineers with illusion information about a tool without determining the level of tear, wear, and rust of the tools to be bought.

The other controversy is that the engineers lack the standing measure to ascertain how a tool may resist corrosion, tear and wear. Additionally, they are industries that produce resistance to wear and tear tools, although various cases indicate the variety of counterfeit products produced across the world. In my case, I believe that engineers who are resistant to wear and tear need to purchase products directly from the producer whore approved by the relevant authorities for producing quality products. Products that are resistant to corrosion wear and corrosion are more expensive. Therefore, engineers should not use cost-benefit analysis to determine which tools to purchase since the method will make them buy cheap and less effective products.

Controversies on resource allocation

The establishment of a project is a critical process in any organization; Technological projects require the collaboration of both the engineers, project managers, and the entire organization. An organization must provide resources for the implementation of the project. Project managers are supported to prepare the project charter and the project scope to determine the organization's timelines, schedules, and budget. Engineers are supposed to design and develop the required infrastructure to provide long-lasting solutions up to the coming generation.

The controversy in resource allocation occurs when an organization budget is small to develop a quality technological infrastructure based on the mechanical engineers' advice. In most cases, organizations will not adhere to engineers' advice, particularly when they lack enough resources to implement a quality project. Project managers are not necessarily engineers but are personnel to manage finance and human resource during project implementation. A project manager is accountable and responsible for managing the project leaders, who are then mandated to manage the project implementation, team leaders.

Therefore, the controversy is that engineers will not design and establish a self-sustaining project with limited resources from the organization. The other controversy is that the project manager will not adhere to the engineer's advice but rather remain loyal to the organization which his/her employer. Currently, across the world, expensive projects are self-sustaining and the most expensive. Therefore, it is difficult for engineers to establish self-sustaining projects that are cheap.

Just as noted in the previous assignment, there is high competition across the globe for supplementary products. Therefore, despite the quality establishment of a project, there must be comprehensive marketing through competent customers care to attract and sustain as many customers as possible. A self-sustaining project also involves proper management of the human resource and preventing misappropriation of funds in an organization. Establishing a self-sustaining project is a collaborative effort from all the finance, human resources, and customer care departments and not just the mechanical engineering department.

Controversy in selecting the correct tools or materials for the job

Most engineers have found themselves designing infrastructures that can not materialize due to economic challenges associated with many organizations today (Okokpujie, p.785). The most design developed by engineers is much beyond the budget of many organizations. The controversy is that engineers design infrastructures without considering purchasing material for construction, labor, and water and electricity expenses. Therefore, most of the infrastructure designed by engineers remains uncompleted due to proper planning.

Planning is a critical component during construction; the process enables engineers to develop strategies to dispose of waste products from the project sites. Planning also enables engineers to ascertain the safety of an area before starting the project. Areas prone to earthquakes and floods should be designed differently to be implemented in a safer place. Poor disposal of waste materials can lead o diseases for the future generation (Yoada, p.8). Poor waste disposal of waste products may compromise the environment, such as creating poor drainage, accumulation of hard metals like iron that many have a negative effect on the growth of trees and crops that compromises the health of the future generation due to poor growth of crops.

Conclusion

The controversy is that most engineers can design and implement a project that depends on the production of goods and services for the future generation; however, they lack a proper mechanism to protect the environment. Engineers should design projects that have quality infrastructures even though they might be smaller than the entire organization's expectation. During project planning, there should be a collaboration between the mechanical engineers, the organization, and the project manager to lay strategies to conserve the environment through proper disposal of the waste products from the project.