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3. What is the current issue on environment involved with engineering? Explain the
issue and propose the way to solve it.
Environmental issues becoming more complex and challenging due to emerging of new
types of products, changes in manufacturing process, emerging new technologies for
products, level of housekeeping, degree of cleaner technology use, competency in
handling environmental issues, old environmental still not properly address and the
regulations are not updated.
There are many environmental issues we are facing right now. One of it is solid waste
management problem. Malaysia is faced with challenges with respect waste management
sector because of the increase of population and tourism, economic growth for
sustainable development and inadequate waste legislation enforcement, infrastructure and
public attitude among residents. Generally, the grater the economic prosperity and the
higher percentage of urbanization, the grater the amount of solid waste produced.
The typical way to solve this problem is by source reduction and reuse of solid waste
implementation. It is important that we reduce the amount of garbage dumped in
municipal landfills for a number of reasons which is landfills are increasingly short of
space and construction of new landfill sites are vehemently opposed due to their
undesirable nature. All this items in a landfill are effectively lost to society and a waste of
natural resources. Lastly, landfill produces vast amount of pollution, both methane to the
atmosphere and leachates to the soil. Reducing the volume, toxicity of waste generated,
including the switch to reusable products and packaging is often opposed by consumer
society.
As a future technologist, we have to prepare ourself with skills needed in order to drive
and benefit from these changes. When we have the skills that has been searching by
industries, means that we are better prepared together with the knowledge base of
technology education.
The opening of the world trade and globalization of economy and business has led to the
spread of multinational companies. Industry in developing countries are faced with many
challenges and must transform themselves into multinational industry by acquiring
different competencies that allow us to face up the challenges of globalization.
Throughout the history of civilization, technology has played a critical role in economic
development. Technologists are key not only in solving local problems but also in
knowledge creation and knowledge transfer. Thus, technology education plays a very
important role in developing the technology professionals that will not only solve local,
regional challenges but also succeed in the highly technical and globalize economy of
today and tomorrow. Competitiveness will increasingly depend on the capacity to tap into
global pools of knowledge and leverage the best human resources available in the world.
The explosion of knowledge, coupled with the global movement of ideas, makes it
impossible to fully anticipate the nature of future innovations. It remains that countries
that will derive the most from globalization will be those in which the systems of
education, business, and government can cooperate to educate, train, and put to work
their human capital.
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