ISE Seminar Series

Master of Engineering Capstone Presentation - Profitable Environmental Friendliness

Aleksandra (Sasha) Soldo
Master of Engineering Candidate
Industrial & Systems Engineering Department

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Time: 1:00 - 1:50 pm
Location: Room 09-1159 (Kate Gleason Engineering Building)

Abstract

Activities all over the globe impinge the natural habitat and accumulate in their large numbers resulting in global consequences. The global warming and pollution are realities that pertain to the whole earth. Large corporations and their activities are the leaders in the destruction of the environment. While there are no politics and ideologies to drive how corporations treat the environment, the profitability of such practices can be the incentive to start saving our only physical environment. The topic under investigation is the analysis of methods that allow corporations to be profitable while complying with environmentally friendly practices. To illustrate the effectiveness of those practices a number of cases will be discussed where business decisions involving environmental factors were successfully precisely because of the environmental factors considered. The paper will discuss the environmental friendliness of corporations in general terms, and what are the implications of such considerations not on short term profitablity but also on long term existence.

Advisor: Dr. Brian Thorn, Industrial & Systems Engineering Department

Questions?
Contact Dr. Michael Kuhl at 475-2134 or mekeie@rit.edu