1. People and Workplaces. Company Structure. Careers in Engineering.
Employees and management
The people who work for a company, all the people on its payroll, are its employees, personnel staff, workers or workforce. But these words can mean just the people carrying out the work of a company, rather than those leading it and organizing it: the management.
Management and administration
A company´s most senior managers usually work in its head office. Some managers have their own individual offices, but in many businesses, most employees work in open-plan offices. Administration or, informally, admin, the everyday work supporting a company´s activities, is often done in office like these by administrative staff or support staff...
2. Energy. Will we have enough energy?
The sources of energy are: fossil fuels, solar energy, nuclear power, wave power, solar cell, hydroelectric power, wind power, geo-thermal energy. Energy sources can be renewable or non-renewable.
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished).
Hydroelectric power: This is the most traditional form of energy which uses coal, oil or natural gas as fuel. Electricity is obtained from generators driven by steam turbines. Although very effective, it represents one of the major sources of air-pollution...