ES25R-C Environmental Science and Engineering

THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENGINEERING FIELD

In the Ecosystem

By Group 5
 Engineering major courses that exist in our group

Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering
 Terrestrial Ecosystem

It is a land-based community of
organisms and the interactions of
biotic and abiotic components in a
given area. (Ex. tundra, taigas,
temperate deciduous forests, tropical
rainforests, grasslands, and deserts)
Civil Engineering:
• Civil engineering contributes proper waste disposal to this ecosystem in
order to maintain the environment. (Ex. Incineration)
• Soil density, rock composition and the structure's foundation are tested if it
is stable or not.
• All planning activities, including that required for buildings, roads and
utilities must ensure that no unnecessary deforestation takes place.
• The role of civil engineering is to design clean and efficient systems that
benefit this community and its environment.

TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM
Computer Engineering:
• Computer engineers research large-scale data and analyze issues within the
specified geological zones which then they design and develop technology
for progression or preservation in the specified geological area.
• They use computers to monitor the earth’s ecosystem like in the Philippines
where the ecosystem is diverse and requires maintenance in terms of using
less energy, reducing waste and promoting sustainability by the usage of
technological advancement.

TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM
Electrical Engineering:
• Electrical engineers help this environment through improved energy
efficiency providing a stable green network for the community to love
better and more sustainably.
• An electrical engineer's role is aligned with the principles of carbon
reduction to address climate change that would benefit this ecosytem.

TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM
 Freshwater Ecosystem

An ecosystem characterized by low-

salt content, making a suitable
environment for various plants and
animals. (Ex. lakes, ponds, rivers,
streams, springs, bogs, and wetlands)
Civil Engineering:
• Civil engineering deals with how to provide populations with clean water,
dispose of wastewater, and avoid flooding. Civil engineers design,
construct, and maintain the systems and structures that control the flow of
water.
• To assist combat the rising sea levels brought on by global warming, they
create designs for sea defense walls and construct reservoirs to safeguard
areas from floods.

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM
Computer Engineering:
• Fresh water is essential for life and needs to be preserved. There are a lot of
creations that preserve water and one of these life innovating preserves are
water dams which control water flow and store water from natural resources
like rain. Computer technology can forecast rain which then can be useful
for water plantation and supply for freshwaters to the community.
• An example for these dams in the Philippines is Angat Dam which is a
concrete water reservoir embankment hydroelectric dam that supplies Metro
Manila and nearby provinces with water.

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM
Electrical Engineering:
• Electrical engineers design electrical systems to provide lighting, electrical
power and controls to process treatment equipment that are part of a water
or wastewater treatment plant.

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM
 Brackish/Estuarine Ecosystem

Estuaries and their surrounding

wetlands are bodies of water usually
found where rivers meet the sea.
Estuaries are home to unique plant
and animal communities that have
adapted to brackish water—a mixture
of fresh water draining from the land
and salty seawater.
Civil Engineering:
• In a particular civil engineering projects such as dikes and the flooding of
coastal marshland to produce brackish water pools for freshwater prawn
farming. Brackish water is also the primary waste product of the salinity
gradient power process. Because brackish water is hostile to the growth of
most terrestrial plant species, without appropriate management it is
damaging to the environment

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM
Computer Engineering:
• If fresh water is important then aquaculture for fish supply and food
security is a must for us Filipinos. Brackish waters are for fish breeding and
the irrigation of crops that have a high tolerance for salinity. Engineers
analyze the estuarine waters by measuring the salinity level of the water if it
can preserve specific aqua life. In maintaining the salinity level of the
brackish water, the usage of a technology or process in detecting the level of
salinity is by thermal process or either membrane-based desalination
processes.

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM
Electrical Engineering:
• Estuaries might provide up to 40% of the world's electricity. For decades,
individuals have been trying to harness this potential and have come up
with a variety of methods. One of the most recent comes have developed a
method of producing electricity from freshwater-saltwater ecosystems that
may be more effective and less expensive than earlier attempts. The system,
which is an adaptation of the capacitive mixing process, functions
somewhat similarly to a battery. Although it uses battery electrodes and
depends on an electrochemical gradient, it is an open system as opposed to
a battery.

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM
 Saltwater/Marine Ecosystem

They are found in diverse geographic

locations across the globe, and are
home to an array of living and non-
living components, from
phytoplankton and jellyfish to
seaweed and sand.
Civil Engineering:
• Climate change is considered a crucial problem and it mostly hits the
Marine Ecosystem with rising sea levels, rising temperatures and intense
weather. Civil Engineering can anticipate, mitigate and adapt to these
impacts of climate change. It can make necessary adjustments and stay
away from conventional methods, practices and standards that still
contribute to carbon emissions. In such way, the impacts of climate change
to the Marine Ecosystem can be reduced.

MARINE ECOSYSTEM
Computer Engineering:
• Technologies/innovations have been used to preserve marine life and restore
the natural beauty of the marine ecosystem because some conserve
challenges that threaten marine life due to abusive procedures in fishing
methods like destructive fishing practices. The usage of computer
controlled marine life locators which can detect, study and analyze life
within the vast ocean and seas. The conservation and support of marine life
can preserve the coral reefs and fish life by using minimal threatening
technologies which are being conducted by organizations in contribution to
the Philippines marine ecosystem.

MARINE ECOSYSTEM
Electrical Engineering:
• Salt is power. The conductivity of water increases when salt is added
because the water molecules separate the sodium and chlorine ions,
allowing them to float freely. These ions are what cause the electric current
that moves electricity through the water. In essence, saltwater (water +
sodium chloride) can assist in the generation of electricity.

MARINE ECOSYSTEM
 Special Ecosystems

Hollow spaces or cavities beneath the

surface of the earth, often with one or
several openings to the surface. (Ex.
Caves) Caves are some of the most
fragile ecosystems in the world, and
they serve as the unique, irreparable
and irreplaceable habitat of the cave-
dwelling species.
Civil Engineering:
• Caves are inhabited by many different species and also a place for human
exploration that do scientific investigation, research purposes, underground
works, search and recovery, or for a technical challenge. Exploring a cave
comes with a number of risks and it is the Civil Engineering job to provide
a safe system to these people and also to prevent the collapse of
underground caves.

SPECIAL ECOSYSTEM
Computer Engineering:
• Engineers survey, analyze, and compromise the certain geographic zones
through technologies that can detect abundance of natural resources. In a
form of researching possible outcomes through large-scale data probing of
the specific geographical area that can save or preserve by undermining
problems within the premises of achieving waste to energy management
that has been erected in the special ecosystem.

SPECIAL ECOSYSTEM
 Burgos Wind Farm in Burgos,
Ilocos Norte, Philippines

• It is the second wind farm built in the province of Ilocos Norte and the
largest project of its kind in the Philippines.
• The estimated cost for the construction of the wind farm was US$450
million.
• The onshore wind farm was commissioned in November 2014 and is
owned and operated by the EDC Burgos Wind Power Corporation
(EBWPC), an affiliate of Energy Development Corporation (EDC).
• The wind farm generates approximately 370GWh of electricity a year,
which is used to power more than two million households.
• It offsets approximately 200,000t of CO₂ emissions annually.

INNOVATION/PROJECT
 Burgos Wind Farm in Burgos,
Ilocos Norte, Philippines

• The function of the project is to provide a source of energy, generating

electricity in the Luzon Grid. Since this is a renewable energy source or
commonly referred to as “clean” energy, this project is a sustainable
energy source which means that it can be passed on through generations
without having to compromise the health of our environment.
• In addition to that, the impact of the cost of electricity in those areas
significantly lowered and also the company promised to have a fixed
rate until 2034. I think they will have to improve more on proactively
managing their social and environmental risks such as waste
management etc. to make it more like a “cleaner” source of energy.

INNOVATION/PROJECT
References
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norte/
• Data Science of the Natural Environment. (n.d.). Www.lancaster.ac.uk. Retrieved
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• The Philippine Seas: Biodiversity and Ecological Impacts of Natural and
Anthropogenic stressors in Tropical Reef Systems | Frontiers Research Topic. (n.d.).
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