CONTENT
A.
INTRODUCTION
·
Background To The Course
·
Objectives Of The Assignment
B.
METHODOLOGY
·
Identification Of Problem
·
Preparation Of Map On Community Of Study
·
Data Collection On The Identified Problem
C.
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
·
Description Of Community Of Study
·
Analysis Of The Data Collected
·
The Petrochemical Engineering Course, Careers
And Aspects
·
Solving The Identified Problem Using
Petrochemical Engineering Based Knowledge
D.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
·
Conclusion On Key Findings From The Study Of
The Community
·
Recommendations On How The Solution To The
Problem Should Be Applied
E.
APPENDIXES
·
Copy Of Questionnaire
·
Copy Of Letter Of Introduction
INTRODUCTION
Engineering
in society is a program introduced to students reading various engineering
related courses to help them appreciate their various chosen fields of
engineering and draw a link between how the knowledge of their field can be used
to solve problems in reality thus societal problems. The course also seeks to
encourage students to demonstrate their acquired knowledge in terms of research
and analysis skills in problem solving endeavours.
OBJECTIVES OF THE ENGINEERING IN SOCIETY
PROGRAM
The
engineering in society program seeks to encourage students to appreciate their
chosen field of engineering as a tool for solving societal problems. It is
aimed at stimulating the interest of students for research and acquisition of
relevant knowledge needed to confront varied forms of challenges in the society
for the purpose of improving the lives of the ordinary people.
METHODOLOGY
IDENTIFICATION
OF PROBLEM
My
mum cannot accurately predict when the household will run out of Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (LPG). Not because of her age or any stress related problems she
may be facing, she can simply not tell when the Liquefied Petroleum Gas in the
gas cylinder will run out. Even though she has been using the commodity for a
couple of years say eight to ten years, she has not been able to acquaint
herself with the number of days a fully filled LPG cylinder will run out.
She
complains that her inability to accurately predict the day the LPG will run out
can be attributed to the numerous ways her LPG is used. How?! She explains that
there have been a few instances where her predictions have turned out right but
mostly whenever she shares the usage of the commodity with her husband, my
father, and my older siblings, especially in her absence or better still in the
night, the LPG runs out faster and then her predictions fail.
Explaining
further, she said that in the dry season, the situation grows worse as the
commodity runs out too soon than expected. She claims that the use of her LPG
for boiling water for bathing purposes is one of the major contributory factors
to the fast rate of consumption of LPG. Left to her alone, she wished she could
tell the she will run out and hence prepare accordingly. The inconvenience of
running out of the commodity in the middle of her cooking, she explains, is one
lot she finds it extremely difficult to bear. She again explained some of the
inconveniences she had to cope with whenever the LPG run out at times she least
expected. Some of the instances included mostly when she was preparing the
family’s supper. In such an instance her only resort is to go back to the
traditional charcoal and coal-pot method, which she is not too comfortable
with, to complete her cooking.
PREPARATION OF MAP ON MY COMMUNITY OF
STUDY
Using
Google Map and Google Earth from Google, I was able to locate my region and
precisely identify my community. A copy of the map can be found on page six of
this report under the discussions chapter.
DATA COLLECTION ON THE IDENTIFIED
PROBLEM
The
problem with my mother may look singular and very much personal however upon
interacting with my friends and neighbours revealed that my neighbours were in
the same boat as my mum. Recounting their loss and displeasure, my friends
recalled that their parents sometimes ignorantly cook without fire: As in,
there had been times when some parents may have left their boiling foods on fire
(gas stoves) expecting the food to be cooking only to return to find out that
no cooking was really taking place due to the absence of fire from their gas
cylinder, probably oblivious of the fact that they had run out of LPG.
For
very busy married women who return home late and have to warm one or two dishes
and cook some small foods, they sometimes realize their fears each time they
run out of LPG late in the night. In the event of such situations, where they
have no resort, they may have to find some snack for the night or better still
go to bed on an empty stomach in the absence of fast food vendors.
I
therefore prepared a questionnaire to ascertain the degree of the problem and
what steps they have been taking to contain the situation.
·
You
will find a copy of the questionnaire used is attached to this report.
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
DESCRIPTION OF MY COMMUNITY
OF STUDY
I reside in regimanuel grey
estate located near the Nungua Police Barrier, at Lashibi, Community 15, Tema. My
community is under the Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal Assembly. Residents here are
mostly middle and top class workers who belong to professional bodies and they
range from accountants, private teachers, professional caterers, doctors,
business-tycoons to bank managers and a scores of others from high profiled
professional bodies but most women here are caterers, house-wives and food
vendor.
All streets in the estate
are tarred. There is a community school thus, Queensland International School
Nursery and Primary. The estate can conveniently boast of large basketball
court, a relatively large football pitch for the teenagers and a park or garden
for events and out-door programmes. The estate occupies an estimated total of
fifteen acre land size. It is estimated that a total of 2000 people including
parents and their wards, reside here. Basic social amenities like electricity
and potable water are not lacking in this particular community. There is
railway line crossing on the East side of the estate, just outside the boundary
of the estate.
You will not be wrong to say
that my community, predictable has very few challenges if any, since it looks
like everyone is gainfully employed and does not need a member of parliament or
an assembly man to make empty promises to them. To them, one thing stands out
here, they are committed to providing for themselves the very basic necessities
of life, especially those amenities which they think are within their means to
do.
·
Map showing location of my community
ANALYSIS OF THE DATA COLLECTED
My
analysis of the data gathered through the questionnaire revealed that most of
the women in my area had averagely medium to large cylinders and mostly two or
three spare cylinders. They mainly use the LPG for cooking, heating (warming)
water and on rare occasions for grilling of fishes and baking pastries in their
ovens.
In
the event of their LPG running out, they switched to the spare gas cylinders
available. The questionnaire also revealed that to cut down on cost of
refilling the cylinders, they resorted to refilling all the gas cylinders in
bulk; thus they wait till all LPG runs out in all the gas cylinders before the
go for a refill. The questionnaire further showed that by their estimation,
they expect a gas cylinder to last within three to four weeks of regular usage.
However, they usually see a decline in the lasting period of the LPG probably
because of the intermittent usage by their spouses and children.
So
in the case of an impromptu run out of the LPG in the night where they cannot
go for a refill, they resort to using charcoal and coal-pot. According to the
questionnaire, although that is their only alternative, they equally admit
that, that means is not very comfortable since there is the challenge of;
setting the fire and dealing with little fickle of fires that spark from those
poorly prepared charcoal. Added to these, the express their concern for the
charcoal business as it being a menace to the forest resource and hence the
governments encouragement of the domestic use of LPG.
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