Author: chris

Step 1.  Write a definitive description of the field of Engineering / Technology that fully describes its elements, the typical types of work that may be included, what individuals may be responsible for on a daily basis.  What do organizations such as Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) offer as far as definitions?  Use the (2) organizations that BEST fit your field of study as sources, but review others for additional viewpoints and descriptions.  If the above list does not contain your field, then research and utilize the appropriate organizations/entities that represent your field of study.

Step 2.  Discuss how your degree and field of study fits into these definitions and duties. To help you accomplish this assignment, try to explain to people (who don’t know what E&T is, not classmates).  What is Engineering & Technology as a field of study?

Step 3.   How do the courses, and the topics you have studied within them, relate to the industry definitions and how they have prepared you to support/perform these items.  Show some basic relationships.

1. Brand image and personality
2. Brand’s unique sales propositioN
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   Imagine YOU were a brand, and answer the following questions:

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1. What’s your brand name?
2. Why did you choose this brand name? What’s the rationale? (max 15-20 words)
3. Describe/explain and introduce your brand. (25-30 words)

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4. Write a short story about your brand and who you are (50-60 words). Use simple images to represent every stage of your story (Emoticons or Icons are welcome)

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5. What is your target market?
6. Why do you think you are attractive to them? (max 25 words)
7. What is unique about your brand? In other words, what is your unique sales proposition (USP)?
8. What makes your brand stand out from the rest in the category/industry?

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9. What represents you and what’s your consumer facing personality? (i.e athletic, goal driven, etc.)
10. Does your brand evokes/triggers any feelings? (if so, enumerate at least 5)
11. Include a mood-board that represents this personality (minimum 3 images in it). Include a short ‘romance copy’ that describes you/the moment.

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12. Please show an ad designed for your brand. Ad must include a call to action. Remember to focus on your brand’s personality and the need to communicate your message acros

1. Describe why you believe the ad is effective for its intended target market (max 25 words)

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2. List at least 3 competitive products or services (top 3) that you may know about and enumerate at least 3 cons and 3 pros between your brand and each one of these brands

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Three discussion posted in one homework assignment post. Two to Three paragraphs per each discussion $ 3 dollars per discscussion a total of 9 Dollars total for all three. But, will pay ten if all three are done correctly before saturday morning. Thanks

1.)  Intro to Business Law

Review the article / videos below which set the stage for your discussion response.

Fired Flight Attendants Fight Back Against United Airline (Full Report and Video [1:36])

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/56746585#56746585

Imagine you represent a person who claims to have been the victim of a breach of contract. Determine the information that you would need to know to best determine if there was a contract. How would you present a case to a court to show your client was the victim of a breach of contract, and how would you overcome the defenses to the alleged breach? Be sure to use legal terms and concepts from the reading to support your analysis.

https://youtu.be/HPYz2IzIii0

2. )  ACCOUNTING 100

• Watch BNET Video’s video titled “Modernizing Inventory Management” on modernizing inventories as used by Cole Hardware:
• Click here to open the video in a new window.
• Explain how Cole Hardware used technology to manage inventory and identify at least two (2) benefits of the use of this technology by the company.

3.)  SOCIOLOGY 100

Identify the myths that are perpetuated by the media, and then provide examples of these myths from your own experience.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

• nstall EasyPHP and MySQL and take a screen shot that shows the MySQL prompt on your screen. (Note: You must include the screen shot which shows that MySQL is installed on your computer as part of your assignment. An installation guide to aid the installation of EasyPHP and MySQL is located here.
• Research the capabilities of MySQL.

Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you:

1. Describe your experiences related to your setup of MySQL. Include any difficulties or issues that you had encountered during the installation.
2. Based on your post-installation research, describe the main capabilities of MySQL.
3. Describe the approach that you would take to go from a conceptual or logical model that you created in Visio to the implementation of that database structure in MySQL. Determine the additional information that you will need to implement the database design in a database management system.
4. Include the screen shot which shows that MySQL is installed on your computer.

Due to changes in the low calorie, frozen, microwavable industry’s market structure, the firm-specific demand equation for our hypothetical company has changed and is now:

QD = 350,000 -100 P

This function generates the following Marginal Revenue Function (MR):

MR = 3500-0.02Q

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1.  Outline a plan that will allow you to identify the market structure in which your company now operates. Comment on the relevant elasticity results from Assignment 1 and your research into two (2) of leading competitors in this industry, taking note of their pricing strategies, profitability, and their relationships within the industry (worldwide).

Note: In Assignment 1, the assumption was that the market structure was perfectly competitive and therefore the equilibrium price would be determined by setting demand equal to supply, or QD = QS. Changes in the market  now suggest it is imperfectly competitive and that your firm has substantial market power to set its own “optimal” price.

2.  Given that the market structure has changed from the original scenario in Assignment 1, determine at least two (2) likely factors that might have caused the change. Predict the primary manner in which this change would likely impact business operations in the new market environment.

3.  Analyze the major short run and long cost functions for the low-calorie, frozen microwaveable food company, given the cost functions below. Suggest substantive ways in which you may use this information to make production decisions in the short-run and the long-run.

• TC = 160,000,000 + 100Q + 0.00632Q²
• VC = 100Q + 0.00632Q²
• MC= 100 + 0.0126Q
  • Hints: What is the equation for average total costs? How is this useful?
  • What is the output level and dollar value associated with minimum average total cost and minimum average variable costs?

4.  Determine the possible circumstances under which the company should discontinue operations. Suggest key actions that management should take in order to confront these circumstances. Provide a rationale for your response. (Hint: Your firm’s price must cover average variable costs in the short run and average total costs in the long run to continue operations.)

5.  Suggest a pricing policy that will enable your low-calorie, frozen microwavable food company to maximize profits. Provide a rationale for your suggestion.

• (Hint: Use the profit maximization rule MR = MC to determine your optimal price and optimal output level. You may also want to compare these values with those you generated in Assignment 1 to determine whether your price would be higher or lower.

6.  Outline a plan, or use your results above, to evaluate the company’s financial performance. Consider all the key drivers of performance, such as total revenue, total cost, total profit, etc. Assuming the company is currently operating at its optimal scale (min. ATC = min. LRATC), what is the short run and long run strategy if current economic profits are positive … or negative?

• Hint: To calculate profit in the short run, use the cost, price, and output levels you generated in part 5.
• Hint: Profit in the long run will be driven to zero if no significant barriers to entry or exit exist.

7.  Recommend two (2) actions that the company could take in order to improve its profitability and deliver more value to its stakeholders. Outline, in brief, a plan to implement your recommendations.

8.  References: Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment.

irst, give some thought to what you’ve learned regarding the similarities and differences between tobacco, alcohol and marijuana on the variables of: health risk, public safety, potential for abuse and whether they are approved by the U.S. Federal government for medical use. Based on your own analysis:

Discuss the logic of the legality of tobacco and alcohol versus the illegality of marijuana. Regardless of your personal opinion, where do you find empirically-based logic in the current status of these three substances? Where can you offer empirical support for an alternative status that would be “logical”? If you see no logic at all, discuss and explain.

A full-sentence outline helps you create the structure of your paper and the topic sentences of your paragraphs at the same time. Think of this document as your blueprint for the final paper. By approaching the outline in this way, you can more easily move paragraphs around and edit the flow of the paper before you write the full paper. This makes editing for the flow of information easier.

Create a full-sentence outline for your paper. Each sentence will act as a topic sentence for a new paragraph in your paper. The entire paper should be outlined using this method. This will allow your instructor to provide feedback to you about the information flow in your paper.

Example:

Your outline must use APA formatting, and be Times New Roman, 12-point font, with one inch margins. Include a title page for your assignment.

M8A1 Individual Research Project: Final Paper

One of the most beneficial exercises in a course exploring ethics is to develop a paper that allows you the opportunity to create connections between your personal view of ethics and the theory under discussion. The nature of ethical decision making is recognition, analysis and resolution. We often don’t make a decision because it’s ethical, but rather, because it makes sense from our personal view of the situation. That is, ethical decisions happen “after the fact” as we begin to see the actual implications of the decision.

With this in mind, your paper should explore current ethical issues in the workplace that are relevant to your current career or the career that you are preparing to pursue. Your task is to begin to explore the possible issues within your workplace and choose one to focus on throughout the course as you begin to build your final paper. Please consider the following as possible approaches for this final paper:

• Illustrate the impact of organizational goals and objectives, structure, culture, environment, ethics policies, and incentive systems on ethical behavior within an organization.
• Evaluate and revise an ethics program to increase ethical behavior within an organizational environment.
• Create and systematically apply a defensible ethical moral framework to a contemporary ethics issue. To systematically apply the ethical moral framework, you must use the framework consistently as you describe the ethics issue. Explore the issue using the framework you create. HINT: This is done through the application of one of the theories we read about in Module 1.

The final paper is your opportunity to delve into a topic within the framework of ethics that you find interesting, based on your approved topic and thesis statement.

• Focus your paper on the connection between your topic and ethics theory. You must use your approved topic.
  • You must support your views. While your opinions are important, they are not sufficient for a discussion for this type of paper. The academic connections are crucial.
• The paper should be 5-8 pages in length (not including the title and reference page).
• The paper should follow APA 6th Edition guidelines for all formatting:
  • 1” margins
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Double-spaced
• Use your full-sentence outline to build the paper. This creates the blueprint for the final paper.
• The paper should have the following sections:
  • Introduction: State what you are going to tell me in the body of the paper. This is a synopsis of the point of the paper. The thesis statement resides here.
  • Body of the paper: This is the place where you pull your research together and develop your points. It should include:
    • An overview of the ethics theory you are using.
    • A connection of the theory to your topic.
    • A discussion about the impact of the topic and theory.
  • Conclusion: Restate what you have told me. This is your last opportunity to make your point, answer your question, or argue a perspective.
• Don’t forget the importance of the transitions between paragraphs and sections. I should be able to read the last sentence of one paragraph and the first sentence of the next paragraph and see the connection. HINT: This is a good way to test whether you have effective transitions.
• Grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraph structure matter: Spend time editing your paper. This means that you need to at least give yourself a three-day cooling off period between finishing the paper and editing the paper. This really does make

Incentive systems develop and are embedded in the structure of an organization. The design of incentive systems needs to account for the ethical dimension. When incentive systems do not consider the ethical dimensions, they can act like a trap. Employees earn additional pay through an incentive that is often tied to specific criteria associated with financial performance. When employees pursue the incentives, they can find themselves trapped in an unethical dilemma. Issues often arise when the incentive system creates a conflict of interest for the employee or manager.

Incentive system design is completely under the control of the organization. There is a need for companies to reconcile the need for organizations to maximize business profits through motivating employees with the need for ethical behavior (Hollis & Yakhou, 2008) through a focus on long-term objectives versus short-term profits.

For your discussion:

• Use the EC Library to locate an article that addresses the ethical issues associated with performance-based incentive systems. This article can be a peer reviewed research-based journal article or a magazine/newspaper story.
• Analyze the issue and devise an adaptation of the incentive system discussed in the article to increase ethical behavior.
  • This might mean that you offer an alternative to a strictly sales-based incentive system.
  • Consider the three major approaches (utilitarian, rights and duties, and fairness and justice) when discussing your alternative.
• Describe how organizations can design systems that support ethical behavior, while also providing incentives for high levels of