ENE 489 Spring 2021

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  The Structural Engineers Foundation (SEF) The Structural Engineers Foundation (SEF) is currently accepting applications for the upcoming academic year for undergraduate and graduate students studying structural engineering.   Applicants will be evaluated on scholarship, leadership, and academic involvement.  Up to five scholarships will be awarded, each in the amount of $3,000.  One of the five scholarships, the Max Zar scholarship, will be awarded to students enrolled in a school in Illinois. The Rubinos-Mesia scholarship is awarded to a student of Hispanic descent. The Fred Haas Scholarship is awarded to an outstanding Graduate student who demonstrates interest in structural steel design and construction. And new this year, the SEF Diversity Scholarship is awarded to a Junior or above from an underrepresented group in Structural Engineering, including students who identify as female, African American/Black, Indigenous or Hispanic/Latinx. The S...

Happy Sunday! I hope you have been able to take some time to relax this weekend. This past week we completed all material for ENE489. The last homework assignment and participation question are due on Monday 4/19/2021 (let me know if you need the grace period). In class on Friday, we decided to use the last two class periods for FE review sessions. Monday: Toxicology and risk calculations  Wednesday: Chemistry (with some mass balance) Project 3 is due on 4/26/2021 at 11:59 pm. If you need the 72-h grace period let me know.  I've posted the recording of Friday's discussion of the project.  The YouTube video is unlisted, the link is https://youtu.be/bmWYTBNMqis. The link is also posted on the list of recorded videos on LON-CAPA. There is no final exam in ENE 489. There is no need to log into Zoom during the final exam.   I will hold office hours as usual this week from 10-11 am. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have via Zoom or email.  You should hav...

Happy Sunday,  I hope all of you are doing well! It feels good to be fully vaccinated (much better than Friday, but the fever, aches, chills for one day surely beats coronavirus).  I apologize for the length of this email message but there's a lot happening at the end of the semester. This week we will finish the unit on gaseous pollutant removal with discussions of absorption, incineration, and NOx control.  I'd also like to take some time to talk about Project 3.  This week, the homework on filtration and adsorption is due, along with participation question 12.  If you need the 48-h grace period, just let me know. The last homework assignment will be due on April 19 and will include material on absorption, incineration, and NOx control.  I've posted additional jobs and scholarships on those blog posts.  Be sure to check those out. This week you will receive email messages about the Withrow nomination form and the Course Learning Objective Student Eva...

  Happy Monday, I apologize for the lateness of this weekly message. I don't have any good excuse - I just forgot to write it.  I all of you had a wonderful weekend. I took some time to get in three very nice walks (and over 10 miles). Although it doesn't look like it in the photos, Spring is really here. On Sunday, I walked in the Ingham County Conservation District in Mason with a friend. We saw (and heard) geese, wood ducks, mallard ducks, turtles, wood frogs, a coopers hawk, red-winged blackbird, a muskrat, merganser ducks, and spring peepers. And we saw a garter snake, along with trout lilies and skunk cabbage pushing up from the soil. We will continue control of air pollutants, focusing our discussion on gaseous pollutants.  The homework on primary particulate control technologies (gravity settlers, centrifugal separators, ESPs) is due on Monday April 5.  If you need the 48 h grace period, just let me know. Participation question 11 is due on the same d...

Happy Saturday, I hope you are doing well and enjoy this week's participation question which asks you to go outside and take in the sights, smells, and sounds of Spring.  We will continue control of air pollutants this next week and will finish looking at centrifugal separators on Monday.  We'll look at electrostatic precipitators and filtration this next week.  The homework on ambient air quality modeling is due on Monday March 29.  If you need the 48 h grace period, just let me know. Participation question 10 is due on the same day. I plan to post the description of Project 3 early this week.  It will be due on April 26th (the day the final exam is scheduled), with a grace period of 96 h (the end of finals week).  Project 3 is written as a hypothetical situation (though based on a proposed project) in Kalkaska County for increased fracking.  It involves both modelling and engineering control technology and even incorporates GHG emissions from e...