GEC Scenario #47: 80% Chance
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| As an environmental engineer employed by a multinational consulting firm, you are working closely with a Chinese client to clean up some chemical waste at an abandoned industrial site in Shanghai. You’ve designed a state-of-the-art remediation system, and estimate it has an 80% chance of reducing toxins to acceptable regulatory levels. How would you communicate this fact to the client? |
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Citation: Jesiek, B. K. and Woo, S. E. (Eds.). (2018). GEC Scenario #47: 80% Chance. Retrieved from https://geec.info/gec47
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
| This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1160455 and 1254323. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We also acknowledge support for this work from Purdue's Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR). |
