Air pollution ( Agenda and time taker)

The problem:  Air Pollution

The Room: CERT Research & Innovation Centre

The Date of Meeting:  Tuesday 13th March

Start and End times: 9:05 – 9:30

Group Members:

-         Chairman: Mohammed Abdulla                                   H00214394

-         Minutes taker: Abdulaziz Faez                                     H00210495

-         Participants:

·        Abdulla Jaber                                                       H00229972

·        Abdulla  Hussein                                                  H00229909

Causes of Air pollution:

a-     Industries’ chemical waste.

b-    Burning trash and garbage.

c-     Exhaust emissions

d-    Deforestation

e-      Destroying the green environment

f-      Pesticides

g-     Smoking in a closed area in a small public place

Main effects of air pollution:

a-     Acid rain

b-    Increase in the gas CO2

c-     Global warming: kills the ozone layer which will allow heat and direct sunlight to enter the atmosphere, making skin diseases and increasing the temperature.

d-    Melting the North Pole: which means that the sea level gets higher every year, which could damage some peninsulas and coastal cities.

e-     Lung diseases and breathing problems due to increase in CO2 gas.

Agenda:

-         Convince people to use hybrid vehicles.

-         Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

-          Underground metro.

-         Issuance of rules that limit the industries.

-         Recycling & re-use of newspapers and plastic bags.

Mohammed Abdulla the chairman of the group started the meeting at 9:05 by introducing himself and the members of the group. In the first part of the meeting Mohammed Abdulla asked the participants what are the causes of air pollution? Abdulla Jabber said the chemical waste is the main reason for air pollution and Abdulla Hussein added, the chemical waste also affects human health.

Mohammed Abdulla mentioned deforestation, then Abdulaziz asked the meaning of deforestation and Mohammed Abdulla explained it which means cutting forest trees. Abdulla Jabber and Abdulla Hussein agreed that is a big problem and it affects the air.

Abdulla Jabber said that cars' exhausts also affect the air, because car emissions have a lot of CO2 which is dangerous and everyone agreed with that. Abdulla Hussein mentioned that smoking is also one of air pollution causes but Abdulla Jabber didn’t agree with what Abdulla Hussein said; he said that it is not a big issue but it's a dangerous for people and it is bad for their health.

Mohammed Abdulla the chairman mentioned that the acid rain is one of the results of air pollution but Mr. Hedley didn’t know what is that and Abdulla Hussein explained to him what it is. Abdulla Hussein said the CO2 increased in the earth and this is dangerous; because of CO2 the temperature of the weather is increasing and scientists call that Global Warming. Because of global warming or temperature increasing, ice in the North Pole melts so seas and oceans water rises up so islands and coastal cities will drown after some decades. Mr. Hedley wanted proof of water rising and Abdulla Jabber said Maldives Islands. Mr. Hedley said that he went on a fishing trip on a sunny say and he said he saw a yellow fog around Abu Dhabi city; Abdulla Jabber said it is pollution and all of that because of car emissions. 

 

1.     Convince people to use hybrid vehicles.

Abdulla Jaber said it is a good idea to reduce the pollution in the air but there is a problem which is hybrid cars are expensive and the spare parts of these vehicles are not available.

Abdulla Hussain said it is a good idea.

2.     Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

Mohammed Abdulla said using the buses is a very good idea to reduce the CO2 in the air by reducing using cars.

Abdulziz said it is a good idea but the problem is that buses are not comfortable.

Abdulla Jabber and Abdulla Hussein agreed with Mohammed Abdulla.

3.     Underground metro.

Abdulla Hussein said it is not a good idea because a metro still issued smoke, was expensive and it requires years to be built.

Abdulla Jaber said it was to solve and reduce the traffic not air pollution.

4.     Issuance of rules that limit the industries.

Abdulla Jabber said that factories must obey the rules because factories are the biggest source of toxics gases.

Mohammed Abdulla mentioned that acid rain comes from toxics gases and industrial waste.

Abdulla Hussein agreed with what they said.

5.     Recycling and re-use of newspaper and plastic bags.

Abdulla Husain said recycling is a good method because instead of burning materials that cause damage to the environment we recycle them and use them again; also Abdulla Jabber agreed with that.

All the members of the group agreed that some of these solutions are successful to reduce the pollution in the air:

1-    Recycling used materials.

2-    Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

3-    Making strict rules to limit the pollution of the chemical waste that results from the factories.

Also, spread the awareness in the society by advertisements and telling them the effects of air pollution.

Reflective Log

Interviewee: Abdullah Jaber

-         The interview was on Sunday 19^th Feb 2011. It took place at HCT’s classroom called Research and Innovation Center. Abdulla was applying for a mechanical engineering job in ESI. He was interviewed by Hammam, Ahmed Saleh and Hedley. He introduced himself with information that will help the interviewer in understanding the qualifications that he had in previous years. He understands each question and answers it in a correct way. Confident and very proud of himself. He asked the interviewer questions that he was interested in knowing, such as the position that he will be in. He respects the interviewers by listening to their questions and then answering them.

Interviewee: Abdulaziz Faez

-         The interview was on Sunday 19^th Feb 2011. It took place at HCT’s classroom called Research and Innovation Center. Abdulaziz was applying for a mechanical engineering post, and he was looking for sponsorship. He was interviewed by Mohammed Abdullah and Omar. He was a bit confused in answering the questions. He didn’t give the interviewer enough information about himself. He answered the questions in a correct way sometimes, and he sometimes was quiet a for few seconds before answering the question. His voice was low and it was difficult to hear him. He asked the interviewer two good questions and he respected each of the interviewers.

Interviewee: Abdulla Ali

-         The interview was on Sunday 19^th Feb 2011. It took place at HCT’s classroom called Research and Innovation Center. Abdulla is applying for chemical supervisor in ADNOC. He was interviewed by Mohammed Abdulla and Omar. He welcomed the interviewers in a nice way. He provided them with a lot of information about himself, qualifications that he had from studying and the experience that he got from working with one of the companies. He answered the questions in a correct way and he convinced the interviewer with evidence that he is the one who deserves the job. He asked the interviewers with perfect questions and he respected them.

Interviewee: Abdulla Hussein

-         The interview was on Sunday 21^st Feb 2011. It took place at HCT’s classroom called Research and Innovation Center. Abdulla was applying for civil engineering and he was looking for a sponsor. He was interviewed by Yousif and Abdulla Ahmed. He didn’t give the interviewer a lot of information about himself. He was a little bit confused. He answered the questions in a correct way and he respected the interviewer. After some questions he got comfortable and confidenct. His voice was normal and it was heard clearly. He asked the interviewer two questions about how is the company doing and what would be his job title.