Models for Energy Portfolio of Sustainable Energy Sources in Oregon: Minority Report – Group 2

Oregon imports most of the energy from out of the state. In 2009, Oregonians spent more than $14 billion on energy consumption. Oregon has been a leader in conservation energy, in the development of renewable energy and in growth of green jobs. Promoting a diversity of renewable energy generating resources in Oregon is good energy policy for a state that has an electricity system heavily dependent on hydropower and increasingly dependent on fossil fuels. Oregon is already making use of renewable technologies including hydro, wind, direct use of geothermal, biomass, and solar. By building on these achievements, Oregon thrives to continue to be a leader on renewable energy policy and aims to meet a large fraction of its energy needs with new renewables by the year 2025. Governor Kulonguski says “We can make Oregon the national leader in renewable energy and renewable product manufacturing. Development of renewable energy will lessen our reliance on fossil, protect Oregon’s clean air and create jobs.”[2] Some of the benefits of renewable energy include risk mitigation of the fluctuations in prices and availability of fossil fuels towards a more sustainable source. Economic development and job creation though locally established power plants. Environmental benefits from using abundantly available natural sources that causes far lesser impact on the environment. Objective of this paper is to propose an economic portfolio model for sustainable energy generation in the State of Oregon by year 2020. We are considering Biomass, Hydroelectric, Solar, Wind and Geothermal energy sources. We also project Oregon’s future supply and generation requirements in terms of costs and plant capacity to fulfill their demand for energy though in-state renewable energy sources. Refer main paper (refer ETM 590 Spring 2012 team 2 paper) for details of the current energy situation and renewable energy sources evaluation

Marketing Plan Samsung Galaxy Skin

This paper attempts to develop a marketing plan for the new Smartphone to be introduced into the market by Samsung in the second quarter of 2013. After capturing a large portion of the Smartphone market share and leading the market in sales with its Galaxy S-series, Samsung will be introducing a different Smartphone that will incorporate the flexible screen technology “Galaxy Skin”. This incorporation of the flexible technology will enable Smartphones to be bendable, unbreakable, more power efficient, low weight and smaller in size. The paper introduces Samsung in general and analyzes its strength and capabilities of developing such products. Afterwards, the study covers the market demographics by sizing the total market, and the segmentation of the available market. The analysts then drill down into the market needs and investigate the target customers who have pressing need for such product. Surveys and interviews were conducted to capture the customer’s voice. The findings indicate that customers ranked the battery life to be the most favored feature followed by the flexible screen. Moreover, the analysts developed a marketing plan of the Galaxy Skin—which involved value drivers, CRTA, TALC, competition analysis, 4P’s and sales forecasting for the post launch two years. Furthermore, the price of Galaxy Skin is not yet announced, but the analysts estimated the price to be $725 based on the customer and competition analysis. Due to the secrecy practices and confidentiality that Samsung is following, the researchers of this paper had to make some assumptions such as those related to budgeting. Lastly, the analysts find that Samsung is committed to sustain its leadership in the Smartphone market by becoming the dominant developer of the flexible display technology products

Feasibility of Using Liquid Chemicals vs. Solid Chemicals in the Drilling Fluids

This paper attempts to evaluate different scenarios taken from a real world job. The scenarios deal with the different product selections and supply chain strategies for a drilling job. The paper emphasize on the financial impacts of each path. In this paper, only the financial criteria were considered and how they play a major role in the drilling activities. The different scenarios include four distinctive paths of selecting two different types of chemicals (solid and liquid) used for the water based mud, and the two different supply chain strategies that were investigated cover the short term supplies and the long term supply with storing requirements. The outcome of this investigation turned out to favor the solid type with long term supplies as it has the highest value of the future worth profit

VA Patient Hospital Transportation for Northern California and Reno, Nevada

The Veterans Health Administration is the division of The US Department of Veterans Affairs that makes health care accessible to Veterans. An important responsibility of the VA is patient transportation to and from medical centers in order to make the healthcare available when required. This paper studies methods to improve efficiency of the VA’s existing transportation system in Northern California & Nevada. The objective is to optimize the routes by minimizing the total distance traveled and reduce any overlapping routes. Several approaches that are suitable for this problem are considered while developing the applicable models. They are derived from the study of optimizing/networking procedures from literature review and our course work. This paper details the approach taken to analyze the data received, format it in a functional manner, set scope/objective and come up with relevant models making use of optimizing techniques

Risk Management System for Vestas Wind Farms

Improvements to the risk management system(RMS) and the means to implement this RMS within the project management group at Vestas Americas are proposed in this report. Wind farm construction is a complex process that does not require advanced innovative technology. Therefore this process requires a “qualitative” risk response plan [1]. Vestas’ current risk plan is not comprehensive. At present, project managers focus on the critical path and on managing current risks. They look at current risks using probability and impact assessments that vary from project to project and from manager to manager

Global Virtual Teams

Today’s world thrives on globalization and no corporations can escape from it. The business environment is expanding into various geographical locations and into various functional backgrounds. It is becoming more and more difficult to manage these vast geographical diverse teams effectively. Individuals from different backgrounds, work ethics, cultures, languages, parts have to promote themselves into the new markets. They come from diverse functional areas and they find themselves interacting with someone from the other part of the globe. This report is focused on exploring the key elements that play role in global teams. Specifically we intend to discuss about the various technologies used for communications, trust and conflicts in the global virtual team. The intention of this paper is to point out the challenges faced by virtual teams and organizations in managing the technology and conflicts

A Framework of Fostering Trust in Virtual Teams

Virtual teams are becoming a natural phenomenon in most of the organizations. There are many reasons in present day, which are leading for formation of these teams. Even though there are challenges to make these teams work effectively, some advantages take prominence over the challenges. This paper explores one of the important challenges among global virtual teams – Trust . Trust could be a challenge in any type of team. It could also be a potential advantage for any team if they can achieve and retain this factor among team members. Virtual teams work with variations in location, culture and time. It is more difficult in virtual teams to overcome the trust challenge. This paper discusses the analysis on Trust in virtual teams with integrating case studies. The reflection of this paper opens up areas that would require future research. Importance and fragility of trust is illustrated in different stages of virtual team. The paper also investigates the elements like communication and coordination might facilitate the trust in global virtual teams. Note: Slides from the presentation associated with this project are included here as a Supplemental File

New Prodcut Development - Development Log

This is a development log for ETM 547 Winter 2009