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Syllabus for ENGR 302 - Energy and the Environment Instructor: Hamid Bahadori

Email: bahadortiaaa@gmail.com (949)702-3669

Required Text: Toossi, R., “Energy and the Environment: Choices and Challenges in a

Changing World,”3rd Ed. Global Digital Central, Columbia, MO 2012. Office Hours: ECS-461 Tuesdays 6:45-7:45 p.m. (by appointment) --- other times also

available by appointment ((either email or via cell at 949-702-3669) Homework:

All assigned homework shall be submitted printed hard copy to the instructor in the classroom on the due dates shown on the class schedule.

Film Reviews:

All Film Reviews shall be submitted printed hard copy to the instructor in the classroom on the date of the class the week after the movies was shown.

Exams:

All exams are open book, but closed notes. Please make arrangements to borrow a hard copy of the book, if you don’t have one, during exam periods. Sharing of textbooks or other material and equipment during exams will not be allowed.

Students who purchase electronic copies of the textbook may use their laptops, only in off-line mode.

All students shall have a “Blue Book” for all exams. Exams submitted in loose paper or any other medium other than a “Blue Book” will neither be accepted nor graded, and the student who has failed to bring a “Blue Book” will lose that part of the course grade.

There will be no make-up exams. Please make sure that you do not schedule any business trip or any other appointments during exam dates.

All exams will be in class, administered by the course instructor.

Grading:

Film Reviews 50 points (10 films each 5 points)

Homework 90 points (3 homework each 30 points)

Midterms 200 points (2 exams each 100 points)

Final 160 points TOTAL 500 Points

Final grades will be assigned on a curve-basis.

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Class Schedule:

(*) All Film Reviews shall be submitted printed hard copy to the instructor in the classroom on the

date of the class the week after the movies was shown.

Week Date Topics and Chapters Movies (*) Material Due

1 Aug 26 Course Review - Chapter 1 - Introduction

2 Sep 2 Chapter 2 - Mechanical Energy

3 Sep 9 Chapter 3 - Fossil Fuels World in Balance

4 Sep 16 Chapter 3 - Fossil Fuels A Crude Awakening

5 Sep 23 Chapter 4 - Thermal Energy Gas Land HW # 1 Due

6 Sep 30 Chapter 4 - Thermal Energy Absolute Zero

7 Oct 7 MIDTERM 1 (in class) Switch Chapters 1-4

8 Oct 14 Chapter 5 – Electricity

9 Oct 21 Chapter 6 - Transportation

10 Oct 28 Chapter 6 – Transportation End of Suburbia

11 Nov 4 Chapter 7 - Air Pollution - Chapter 10 - Solar Energy Solar Energy HW #2 Due

12 Nov 11 Veterans Day – No Class

13 Nov 18 MIDTERM 2 (in class) Solar Energy Chapters 5-10

14 Nov 25 Chapter 11 – Biomass; Chapter 12 - Wind Energy Algae Fuel

15 Dec 2 Chapter 13 - Hydro Energy; Chapter 15 – Sustainability e-design

16 Dec 9 Class Projects Presentations HW # 3 Due

17 Dec 15 Final Exam (in class) Comprehensive

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ENGR 302 Course Outline

1. Course Title and Number.

ENGR 302 Energy and the Environment: A Global Perspective (3)

2. Course Description (including prerequisites, as they will appear in the catalog).

Prerequisites: Completion of the G.E. Foundation, one or more Exploration courses and upper-division

standing. Renewable and non-renewable energy sources, including but not limited to fossil fuels, nuclear,

solar, wind, wave, tides, geothermal, hydroelectric and biomass. Available world resources, market, trends,

and technology. Energy conservation and practical alternatives, social, cultural and economic impacts,

environmental aspects of power generation, air pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming.

Recycling and blue print for a sustainable environment (Hybrid with 50% seat time, 3 hours) Traditional

grading only.

3. Student-Based Learning Outcomes (What students will know and be able to do by the end of the

course).

Course Objectives Are to provide students with a thorough understanding of laws of thermodynamics, energy

conservation, and environmental issues related to use of energy.

The specific knowledge and skills the students will obtain from this course are delineated below:

1. A broad knowledge of the available renewable sources of energy in the world, and their implication

on the political, social, and economic shape of the future.

2. An understanding of the basic principles of energy conservation, and the principal laws governing

the production of energy and its use. Students will be given numerous examples describing the First

and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and the manner in which they affect our daily life.

3. An understanding of the way various thermal systems operate. Examples will include several types

of heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps.

4. An understanding of the way the present energy systems operate. In particular a review of coal, gas,

petroleum, biofuel, nuclear, solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal sources will be made and the

limitations in each technology will be discussed.

5. An understanding of the practical alternatives for answering present and future energy needs.

6. Familiarity with the environmental impacts of various energy alternatives. The basic concepts

relating to solid wastes, greenhouse effects, acid rain, and ozone depletion are presented, and

practical means of reducing these adverse effects are discussed.

7. Familiarity with various aspects of air pollution, as they are related to health, material response, and

vegetation.

8. Familiarity with the origins and fate of air pollutants. Various requirements and emission standards

will be discussed, and control strategies for particulate and gaseous emissions will be analyzed.

9. A limited but essential knowledge of the cultural, political, and legal issues as related to the global

energy sources, and environmental regulations.

4. Major Course Topics:

1. Basic concepts and definitions: Energy, work, and heat. Units and forms, Conservation of energy,

Order and disorder, entropy, the perpetual motion machines and the Carnot principle..

2. Energy Forms: Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas), nuclear energy, wind energy, ocean and tides, Ocean

Thermal Energy Conversion, geothermal, hydroelectric, and solar.

3. Environment: Air and Water Pollution, population growth, CO, NOx and HC emission from cars,

toxins in the atmosphere, acid rain, greenhouse warming, ozone depletion, and municipal and nuclear

wastes, Global and regional treaties. Indoor air pollution

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4. Political and Economical Impacts: Oil and politics of war, Middle East conflicts and impact on future

petroleum resources, Cartels and OPEC pricing policies, Economical analysis of environmental

damage.

5. Sustainability: Defining sustainability, role of technology, a blueprint for a sustainable future.

5. Accommodations Statement (required statement in course outline and syllabus):

Students with disabilities who need reasonable modifications, special assistance, or accommodations in this

course should promptly direct their request to the course instructor. If a student with a disability feels that

modifications, special assistance, or accommodations offered are inappropriate or insufficient, he/she should

seek the assistance of the Director of Disabled Student Services on campus.