Assignment #5

Water-Powered Car

Filipino Inventor, Daniel Dingel's water-powered car traces its development back to 1969, per Philippine newspaper accounts and the inventor's own claim that he has invested at least thirty years' worth of work. Dingel has had several cars converted since that time - all his own. The Daniel Dingel water car is not a fuel-cell car. Fuel cell cars like the new Honda FCX Clarity uses hydrogen gas to produce electricity in a fuel cell, and it is this electricity that powers the car's electric motor. Also, fuel cell cars are reliant on hydrogen that is pre-extracted using costly methods.

Contrary to its name, Dingel's car does not burn water. The inventor claims to have designed a process that efficiently maximizes on-demand hydrogen extraction from the electrolysis of ordinarily-available water. It is the hydrogen gas that his car burns directly in the engine's combustion chamber. The extraction process being on-demand, Dingel's car does not store hydrogen gas onboard in quantities that pose an explosion risk.

   Sing-Along System
Roberto L. del Rosario is a prominent Philippine inventor of the Sing-Along System known as Minus-One that will eventually be known as karaoke. Naipaglaban Congressof the Philippines said the passage of the proposal for incentives to invention of the Filipinos that eventually became law RA 7459 or Inventors and Invention Incentives Acton April 28, 1992. 
           He was elected as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Inventors Association (IFIA). He was awarded the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Gold Medal in his unique invention in 1985.

           At the age of seven who play the piano better and further sharpened when he becameassistant to the manufacturer of the piano of his uncle Trebel. He found difficulty in tuningthe piano eng led him to invent the Piano Tuner's Guide and Piano Keyboard StressingDevice. Year 1972, when Roberto identify because of his One-Man Band (OMB) thatnakakatugtog full orchestra (complete wind, string and brass instruments) ringingchacha, boogie, disco, swing, tango and more.

Lunar Rover / Moon Buggy

Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969. Eduardo San Juan, a graduate of Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT), worked for Lockheed Corporation and conceptualized the design of the Moon Buggy that the Apollo astronauts used while in the moon. As a NASA engineer, San Juan reportedly used his Filipino ingenuity to build a vehicle that would run outside the Earth’s atmosphere. He constructed his model using homemade materials. In 1978, San Juan received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards in science and technology. 

San Juan, however, was not listed as the inventor of the Moon Buggy in American scientific journals. It said the vehicle was designed and constructed by a group of space engineers. In Poland, the Moon Buggy is attributed to a Polish inventor. Worse, the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) does not recognize Flores in its roster of outstanding Filipino scientists.

McDonald's and Jollibee (06/22/11)

McDonald's


In 1917, 15-year-old Ray Kroc lied about his age to join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver, but the war ended before his training finished. He then worked as a piano player, a paper cup salesman and a multi-mixer salesman. In 1954 he was surprised by a huge order for 8 multi-mixers from a restaurant in San Bernardino, California. There he found a small but successful restaurant run by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, and was stunned by the effectiveness of their operation.  They produced a limited menu, concentrating on just a few items—burgers, fries and beverages—which allowed them to focus on quality at every step.

Kroc pitched his vision of creating McDonald’s restaurants all over the U.S. to the brothers. In 1955 he founded the McDonald’s Corporation, and 5 years later bought the exclusive rights to the McDonald’s name. By 1958, McDonald’s had sold its 100 millionth hamburger.

Jollibee

Prior to founding Jollibee, Tan Caktiong and his brother Ernesto Tan Mantiong franchised two Magnolia ice cream parlors. Food business was nothing new to the Tan brothers. Their father Tan Eng Lan was a restaurant chef back in Davao. One of their branches was in Cubao while the other was in Quiapo.

When customers began to ask for more than just ice cream, the two decided to add sandwiches to their menu. Eventually, they found out that more people were ordering hamburgers more than their ice cream. That was when they decided to focus their business in selling hamburgers instead.

By 1978, Tan Caktiong already established a chain of hamburger outlets. With the recommendation of a management consultant, Manuel Lumba, renamed Jolibe to Jollibee. And while in search of a name and a mascot for his first store, Tan Caktiong came across his trove of Disney memories and found a character that somehow embodied his philosophy of 'spreading happiness and being productive' --a bee. And so Tan Caktiong's hamburger store came to be known as Jollibee.

Assignment #4

1. Vigilance for Opportunities
2. Commitment to work contract
3. Persistence
4. Willingness to Take Risks
5. Demand for efficiency and quality
6. Goal setting
7. Information seeking
8. Systematic planning and monitoring
9. Persuasion and networking
10. Self Confidence

a.) By having Self-Confidence can help a lot because he knows that he can able to do it. Setting goals can help you succeed in any way, but before setting goals we should put a plan first.

b.) Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies can help us succeed by being Dependent, Responsible and Self-confident.

Assignment #3

Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PEC's) 
-the success of a bussinessperson greatly depends on a certain set of characteristics.




Achievement Cluster
I. Opportunity Seeking and Initiative
* Does things before asked or forced to by events
* Acts to extend the business into new areas, products or services
* Seizes unusual opportunities to start a new business, obtain financing, equipment, land work space or assistance

II. Risk Taking
* Deliberately calculates risks and evaluates alternatives
* Takes action to reduce risks or control outcomes
* Places self in situations involving a challenge or moderate risk

III. Demand for Efficiency and Quality
* Finds ways to do things better, faster, or cheaper
* Acts to do things that meet or exceed standards of excellence
* Develops or uses procedures to ensure work is completed on time or that work meets agreed upon standards of quality

IV. Persistence
* Takes action in the face of a significant obstacle
* Takes repeated actions or switches to an alternative strategy to meet a challenge or overcome an obstacle
* Takes personal responsibility for the performance necessary to achieve goals and objectives

V. Commitment to the Work Contract
* Makes a personal sacrifice or expends extraordinary effort to complete a job
* Pitches in with workers or in their place to get a job done
* Strives to keep customers satisfied and places long term good will over short term gain

Planning Cluster
VI. Information Seeking
* Personally seeks information from clients, suppliers or competitors
* Does personal research on how to provide a product or service
* Consults experts for business or technical advice

VII. Goal setting
* Sets goals and objectives that are personally meaningful and challenging
* Articulates clear and specific long range goals
* Sets measurable short term objectives

VIII. Systematic Planning and Monitoring
* Plans by breaking large tasks down into time-constrained sub-tasks
* Revises plans in light of feedback on performance or changing circumstances
* Keeps financial records and uses them to make business decisions

Power Cluster
IX. Persuasion and Networking
* Uses deliberate strategies to influence or persuade others
* Uses key people as agents to accomplish own objectives
* Acts to develop and maintain business contracts

X. Independence and self-confidence
* Seeks autonomy from the rules or control of others
* Sticks with own judgement in the face of opposition or early lack of success
* Expresses confidence in own ability to complete a difficult task or meet a challenge

Homework No. 2

    





Invention: X-radation ( X-ray )

 X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding tofrequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3×10¹⁶ Hz to 3×10¹⁹ Hz) and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma rays. In many languages, X-radiation is called Röntgen radiation, after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who is usually credited as its discoverer, and who had named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation. Recently uncovered archival evidence shows that the original discoverer of X-rays was a Ukrainian physicist Ivan Pulyui, who worked in Vienna together with Röntgen and shared the results of his work with him. Correct spelling of X-ray(s) in the English language includes the variants x-ray(s) and X ray(s). XRAY is used as the phonetic pronunciation for the letter x.

X-rays from about 0.12 to 12 keV (10 to 0.10 nm wavelength) are classified as "soft" X-rays, and from about 12 to 120 keV (0.10 to 0.01 nm wavelength) as "hard" X-rays, due to their penetrating abilities.

Hard X-rays can penetrate solid objects, and their most common use is to take images of the inside of objects in diagnostic radiography and crystallography. As a result, the term X-ray is metonymically used to refer to a radiographic image produced using this method, in addition to the method itself. By contrast, soft X-rays hardly penetrate matter at all; the attenuation length of 600 eV (~2 nm) X-rays in water is less than 1 micrometer.

The distinction between X-rays and gamma rays has changed in recent decades. Originally, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by X-ray tubes had a longerwavelength than the radiation emitted by radioactive nuclei (gamma rays). Older literature distinguished between X- and gamma radiation on the basis of wavelength, with radiation shorter than some arbitrary wavelength, such as 10⁻¹¹ m, defined as gamma rays. However, as shorter wavelength continuous spectrum "X-ray" sources such as linear accelerators and longer wavelength "gamma ray" emitters were discovered, the wavelength bands largely overlapped. The two types of radiation are now usually distinguished by their origin: X-rays are emitted by electrons outside the nucleus, while gamma rays are emitted by the nucleus.

Discovery

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays because he was the first to systematically study them, though he is not the first to have observed their effects. He is also the one who gave them the name "X-rays", though many referred to these as "Röntgen rays" for several decades after their discovery and to this day in some languages, including Röntgen's nativeGerman.

X-rays were found emanating from Crookes tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented around 1875, by scientists investigating the cathode rays, that is energetic electron beams, that were first created in the tubes. Crookes tubes created free electrons by ionization of the residual air in the tube by a high DC voltage of anywhere between a few kilovolts and 100 kV. This voltage accelerated the electrons coming from the cathode to a high enough velocity that they created X-rays when they struck the anode or the glass wall of the tube. Many of the early Crookes tubes undoubtedly radiated X-rays, because early researchers noticed effects that were attributable to them, as detailed below. Wilhelm Röntgen was the first to systematically study them, in 1895.^[50]

The important early researchers in X-rays were Ivan Pulyui, William Crookes, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Hermann von Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Charles Glover Barkla, Max von Laue, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

         

Source: Wikipedia

Chapter 1: The Entrepreneur (Homework 1.1)

Pages 6, 8 & 10 (06-07-11)






1. What are the characteristics that helped James succeed?

• Creative
• Thrifty
• Has a courage to pursue his dreams
• Independent
• Contented

2. Enumerate Marie's characteristics that helped her become a successful entrepreneur.

• Hardworking
• Intelligent
• Satisfied
• Eager

a.) What are the similarities between the stories of James and Marie?
  Answer: Because of hardwork, they both became successful enterpreneur.


b.) How did their educational training differ?
  Answer: James came from a poor family that's why he did not take up college. But he worked hard                   just to make his dreams possible. Marie finished college, but she was eager to learn that's why she 
also succeded.


c.) What made Marie's business somewhat risky at first? How did she feel about it?
  Answer: Maybe it was her first time to do that job and it's a new field for her, and besides that is a part time job. She felt confused.


d.) What common traits did Marie and James have that helped them succeed as entrepreneurs?
  Answer: Hardworking and being Satisfied on what they have time.




p. 10


I. Answer: Computer Shop Owner, Policemen, Teacher & Bus Line Operators offer services, while Pastry Shop Owner and Computer Shop Owner sells items.


II. Answer: If I were an entrepreneur, I would be in the Catering Business because it would help me a lot by being paid larger amount of money especially when I cater in a big event wherein many population is in there, like having birthday parties and other special occasions.