Summer 2009: Technical Writing

This course was instructed by: Dr. Doreen Piano, Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, University of New Orleans.

Instructions for 'How to buy a laptop?'

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Spring 2009: Geospatial Analysis II, Final Project

This course was instructed by: Dr. Deepak Mishra, Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, University of New Orleans.

Assessment of Landfill Gas Migration in Closed Landfills using Remote Sensing Techniques

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Fall 2008: Toxicology and Human Health, Final Project

This course was instructed by: Dr. Patricia M. Williams, Toxicologist and Coordinator of UNO-Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences

Exposure to H2S: Mechanisms of Toxicity and Remediation

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Summer 2008: Environmental Planning, Final Project

"Your final presentation was wonderful. You included all of the issues and presented them in their entirety." : Dr. Wilma Subra, Microbiologist and Environmental Activist

Effect of Discharges from Landfill to Wetlands and Its Mitigation through Better Planning
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Latest Innovation in AD world: Behaviorial Targeting

Technologies for monitoring and interpreting Internet habits as a predictor of future behavior cropped up at the start of this century, but only now are gaining momentum as the newest gold mine for Web sites and their advertisers.

Known as behavioral targeting, the premise is to follow the sites you visit and build a picture of what products may interest you, then deliver related advertising in time for you to choose your purchase.

Innovation Management

Glossary:

Invention, Innovation, product innovation, process innovation, service innovation, incremental innovation, radical innovation, continuous innovation

Innovation strategy, strategy for innovation, managing innovation, management of innovation

Three stages of innovation - idea creation, development, commercialization

Innovation has occurred when any aspect (e.g. capability, use) of a product, process or service provides an improved solution to a need

Incremental innovation involves small improvements and extensions to existing products, processes and services. The target is to increase efficiency - higher quality, reduced times and lower costs. For an incrementally new product the customer is known and the technology does not radically depart from conventional practice

Radical innovation involves major change. Typically there are unknowns concerning both customer and technology.

Why you have to innovate?

Advancing technology

Changing environment

Changing industrial structures and strategies

Evolving society

Evolving customer desires

Competitors improve their products, processes and services

Customers stop buying your old products and services so you need to replace them and add new products and services

What happens if you don't innovate?

Customers stop buying your products, processes and services

Sales drop

Revenues drop

Shareholder returns drop

Stock price drops

Key employees leave

More customers stop buying your products, processes and services

Sales drop

Why innovation is becoming more important?

Technology is changing fast, new products come from new competitors

Fast changing environment, product lifetimes shorter, need to replace products sooner

Products are increasingly difficult to differentiate

Customers are more sophisticated, segmented and demanding, and expect more in terms of customization, newness, quality and price

Customers have more choice

New technologies no-one understands

Apparently separate technologies come together

Markets forming and changing fast

With markets and technology changing fast, and good ideas quickly copied, there is continual pressure to devise new and better products, processes and services faster

Innovation is a positive message?

Tell people you are going to cut headcount - and lose their support

Tell people you are going to downsize - and lose their support

Tell people you are going to re-engineer - and 80% won't cooperate

Tell people you are going to be innovative - and win their enthusiastic support

Innovation as your corporate strategy

Poor implementation of many recent corporate initiatives - such as ERP implementation, ISO 9000 implementation, re-engineering, and downsizing - hasn't resulted in fast growth. Often it's led to a reduction in quality levels and stagnation in sales

Innovation leads to faster growth, increased market share and better corporate positioning

Innovation is the prime strategy for the first decade of the twenty-first century

http://www.johnstark.com/in4.html

Sustainable Housing

Why is Sustainable Housing Important?

We live in a fragile world with limited resources and growing environmental problems associated with greenhouse emissions and climate change, deforestation and the loss of old growth forests, decreasing biodiversity, pollution of ocean and inland waterways, to name just a few. Each of us has a moral responsibility to help minimise our impact on the environment. By making your home more sustainable you can make an important contribution towards that end.

An added bonus is the tremendous cost savings that can be obtained from installing sustainable housing technologies. So, sustainability housing is not only good for the environment but is good for the household budget too!

What Does Sustainable Housing Involve?

Sustainable Housing includes technologies that cover a wide range of applications including the following (click on the category to find out more on each technology area):

• Composting of Organic Wastes
• Composting Toilets
• Energy Efficient Lighting
• Energy Efficient Appliances
• Environmental Pest Management
• Environmental cleaning products
• Heat Exchange Systems
• Hybrid Energy Cars
• Insulation
• Landscape Architecture
• Passive Solar Architecture
• Rainwater Storage
• Renewable Building Materials
• Solar Energy
• Solar Hot Water
• Wastewater Systems
• Water Filtration
• Water Saving Devices

http://www.ecologicalhomes.com.au/sustainable_housing.html