CEV 420 Basic Environmental Sciences

CASE EXAMPLE: ASSIGNMENT 2 (GROUP PRESENTATION)

(PO11, CO2, C4, C5)

The case example with a designated topic should be conducted in a group as listed in
Table 1. Students are compulsory to present the case example with a report
submission.

List of Topics:

A. Oil and gas industry (Group 1)

Relate the activity to the environmental issue. Identify the hazardous emission/by product
from the industry. Propose solution in combating those issues.
Task
1. Identify type of industrial or major activities related to the site study.
2. Estimate population at the respective area of study.
3. Identify the problems related to environment at the site.
4. Proposed possible solution to eliminate/reduce the problems.

B. Textile industry (Group 2)

Relate the activity to the environmental issue. Identify the hazardous emission/by product
from the industry. Propose solution in combating those issues.
Task
1. Identify type of industrial or major activities related to the site study.
2. Estimate population at the respective area of study.
3. Identify the problems related to environment at the site.
4. Proposed possible solution to eliminate/reduce the problems.

C. Food processing (Group 3)

Relate the activity to the environmental issue. Identify the hazardous emission/by product
from the industry. Propose solution in combating those issues.
Task
1. Identify type of industrial or major activities related to the site study.
2. Estimate population at the respective area of study.
3. Identify the problems related to environment at the site.
4. Proposed possible solution to eliminate/reduce the problems.

D. Overpopulation (Group 4)
Your case study question: Choose one city that having a dense population and point out
issues related to the environment (eg; municipal solid waste, sewage system and etc)
Propose solution in combating those issues.

E. Transportation (Group 5)
Your case study question: Transportation is one of the main key infrastructure to the city
development. However, the transportation leads to environmental problems. Identify those
problems. As an environmental engineer, propose new solutions to combat the problem
and how can you implement in our society.

F. Attitude or social (Group 6)

Your case study question: The environmental aspect should be introduced from the very
beginning of education stage (eg; kindergarten, primary school). Identify any
practice/knowledge related to environment (eg; recycling, no plastic bag day) that can be
introduced to school students to enhance the understanding of the environmental care.
Identify issue related to attitude that leads to environmental problems (ex; throwing
garbage at undesignated area, negligent about utility/energy saving). As an environmental
 engineer/advisor, propose any solution that can be implemented to reduce the
environmental impact.

G. Electroplating industry (Group 7)

Relate the activity to the environmental issue. Identify the hazardous emission/by product
from the industry. Propose solution in combating those issues.
Task
1. Identify type of industrial or major activities related to the site study.
2. Estimate population at the respective area of study.
3. Identify the problems related to environment at the site.
4. Proposed possible solution to eliminate/reduce the problems.

H. Deforestation (Group 8)
Your case study question: Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order
to make the land available for other uses. However, this activity leads to environmental
problems. Identify those problems. As an environmental engineer, propose possible
solution to eliminate/reduce the problems.

I. Mining (Group 9)
Your case study question: Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological
materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposits which
forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner. However, mining
operations usually create a negative environmental impact, both during the mining activity
and after the mine has closed. Identify those problems. As an environmental engineer,
propose possible solution to eliminate/reduce the problems.

Content of Report

 Introduction
 Problem statement (identify the environmental issues/problems)
 Propose possible/new solutions to eliminate/reduce the problems
 Impact/benefit/advantages of the solution to the society/city/country
 Conclusion
 References

Note:

 The body content should be supported by any research, data, statistic, and figure or
with qualitative scientific, economic and/or engineering data.
 Related pictures/ schematic diagrams/ illustration schematic or etc should be included.
 Avoid any emotional, political and social arguments.

Format of Report

 Font : Arial, Font size: 11 (1.5 spacing)

 Page setup : Top: 0.75”, Bottom: 0.75”, Left: 1” and Right: 0.75”
 Paper size : A4
 Pages : 5 − 10 pages (excluding references)
 Report submission date : 10th June 2016 (Friday) before 4.00 pm
 Presentation date : 16th June 2015 (Thursday)
References

 Minimum 5 references
 Every data, fact, statistic, figure or etc that cited from any resources should be stated
in the text in the form of (Author name, year). List down all the references that have
been cited in the text based on the format below at the end of report:

i. Book
Author (Year). Title. Edition (if not the first). Placed published: Publisher.

Example:
Theusen, G. J. and Fabrycky, W. J. (1984). Engineering Economy. 6th ed. Englewood
Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall.

ii. Journal Articles

One Author (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal. Volume (Number): page.

Example:
Billings, S. A. (1980). Identification of Nonlinear Systems: A survey. Proc. IEE Part D,
127(6), 272−284.

More than One Author (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal. Volume (Number):
page.

Example:
Fujishima, A., Rao, T. N. and Tryk, D. A. (2000). Titanium dioxide photocatalyst.
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C, 1, 1−21.
 Table 1 Group distribution for case example

Group Student’s Name Title of case example

EH2242A1/A2
1 AIZATUL HIKMAH BINTI ZULKAFLI Oil and gas industry
JAN JAN BIN MOHAMAD NAWALI
MOHAMMAD KAMARUL BIN MOHD SIPI
MUHAMMAD SYAFIQ ADHAM BIN MOHD SAINI
2 NASYWA BINTI YAZID Textile industry
NUR AIN BINTI AMRAN
NUR SHAFIQAH BINTI JAMALUDDIN
NURSUHADA BINTI MD ISA
3 SITI NOR ZUBAIDAH BINTI RAMLEE Food processing
A'TIQAH BINTI ABDUL HADI
AFIQAH HUSNA BINTI ABD RAZAK
IZWAN AZREL BIN SHAHHAIZAD
4 MUHAMMAD IRFAN BIN MOHAMED HATTA Overpopulation
MUHAMMAD SALMAN BIN SAMIN
NOR ADILA BINTI MOHD.NASIR
NUR ASHRAAF BINTI AZHA
5 NUR ELIS SHARMILA BINTI ZULAZMI Transportation
NUR IZYAN NAZIHAH BINTI DUSUKI
WAN NADZATUL NADHIRAH BINTI ABDULLAH
EH2243A1/A2
6 AARON BIN LUIN Attitude or social
AMIRAH ANNASUHA BINTI CHE AZMI
FATIN SYAHIRAH BINTI MOHAMMAD AZLI
NOOR SHAZIELA BINTI NOBRI @ MOHD SHUKRI
7 NORSYAZLINA BINTI ABD RAHMAN Electroplating industry
NUR AZZA AZYAN BINTI MUIN
NURJIHAN BINTI MOHAMMAD NAZAR
NURUL IZZATIL HANUM BT MUHAMMAD FADZLI
8 SHAHIRAH NABILAH BINTI ISHAK Deforestation
SITI KHAIRUL NADIA BT AHMAD
AIMAN BIN MOHAMAD GHAZALI
DANIAL NURUDDIN BIN AZLAN RAOFUDDIN
9 NOR AMINDA AMNIE BT MOHD NASIR Mining
NORFAZILAH BINTI ABDULLAH
RIDHWAN BIN ROSLI
SOPHIA LENJA ANAK ROGER
VERONIQUE GLORIA V. SIDURU