Discussion Topics.doc

Discussion Topic 1:How would the world be different if smoking was suddenly banned? Do you think smoking will ever disappear?Discussion Topic 2:Do you think people in old age look at the world differently? How different? Do you think life in your old age will be better or worse than now?Discussion Topic 3:Recycling - Sort out how to make money with recycling.Discussion Topic 4:Computer games are very addictive. Over 95% of the male university students play some kind of computer games. Sometimes the computer games starts to get in the way of the normal social life. What can be done to counter this social effect? Discussion Topic 5:You are a doctor working in a hospital. This hospital is very crowded. There are more patients than there are beds in the hospital. Your team of doctors are in charge of determining who gets treated, and who gets turned away.To determine which patients gets to stay in the hospital for treatment, the doctors will need to assess the patients symptom and if the patient can be treated and cured. How would your team of doctors determine who gets to stay in the hospital and who does not?Once the patient is admitted to the hospital and patients illness become very serious and can only be saved by continuously connected to hospital equipments, what should your team do? Keep the patient connected to the equipments and taking up hospital beds? Or let the patient die, so you can make room for new patients?Discussion Topic 6:Your team is in charge of purchasing life saving equipments in a hospital. Many vendors want to sell you the equipment. You found company A has the best equipment, and it passes your criteria. You found company Bs equipment is not very good and failed your criteria. Company As price is a little more than what the hospital can afford. Company Bs price is just below what the hospital can afford, and they are willing to build a new facility for the equipments at no extra charge.What would you do? Which company would you buy the equipment from? Why?Discussion Topic 7:World Expo in Shanghai attracts over 300,000 visitor each day. Many visitors have to wait over hours to see an exhibition. Come up with ways to reduce the wait time to see some of the popular exhibitions. What system would you put in place? What are some of the negative effects? And how would you resolve it?Discussion Topic 8:The Shanghai World Expo is the largest Worlds Fair site ever at 5.28 square kilometers. Even with multiple bus lines within the Expo site, visitors still have to walk a lot. Think of ways to minimized visitor walking. What system would you put in place? What are some of the negative effects? And how would you resolve it?Discussion Topic 9:China has a very complex and effective train system. There are millions of riders each day. Even though it is very easy for riders to purchase tickets from various ticket offices outside of the train station, exchanging tickets or returning tickets can only be done at the train station. Also, riders cannot purchase tickets more than 10 days in advance. For regular commuters, this is very inconvenient. Think of ways to make the train purchasing process easier for the riders. What system would you put in place? What are some of the negative effects? And how would you resolve it? Discussion Topic 10:Over the past few months, 12 Foxconn employees had committed suicide. These incidents caused widespread concerns in all aspect of the society. Some worry that more employees will continue to commit suicide in the future. What would you do to stop the suicides while requiring the employees to work overtime?Discussion Topic 11:Computer games are very addictive. Over 95% o