ENE 483 Fall 2023

Greetings, Over the next two weeks, we will visit the East Lansing Water Resource Recovery Facility. On Monday, I will provide an overview of the facility, so that you get more from the visit.  The plant is located off Trowbridge Rd, as shown on the map below. October 31: Teams 1-5 will attend from 10:15-11:15 AM Teams 6-10 will attend from 11:15 AM -12:15 PM. November 7 : Teams 11-15 will attend from 10:15-11:15 AM Teams 16-20 will attend from 11:15 AM -12:15 PM. I know this is a bit outside of our regular tutorial time, but I wanted to make sure that all students were able to spend an hour at the plant. Please make sure to bring the tutorial handout so that you gather the information needed to complete the assignment. Please plan to carpool with your team as parking is limited and please arrive approximately 5 minutes early so that each of the groups will have an hour to see the plant. Please check the weather as you will be outside most of the time. Dress appropriately! I...

Greetings and Happy Sunday, I hope all of you are enjoying Fall Break. I will be away on an ABET accreditation visit through Wednesday of this week. Dr. Tarabara will lecture in class on Wednesday.  He will start the unit on disinfection, which I will then pick up on Friday.  Hopefully, my travel is much less eventful than the last trip.  I have opened up the LON-CAPA participation question.  It is due October 27th at 11:59 PM.  As usual, if you don't want to answer the question, feel free to tell me anything you wish. If you would like to provide feedback to me as your instructor, feel free to use the mid-semester evaluation .  You can use this for any course you have on campus. On a completely different note: Dr. Tula Ngasala and I are exploring developing a humanitarian engineering minor for engineering students who aspire to work with communities to co-create sustainable and just solutions to the problems they face. I am inviting you to participate ...

Greetings and Happy Sunday! I hope you all had a good weekend. This week we will start the unit on granular media filtration.  On Tuesday, we have guest speakers from Black & Veatch, EGLE, and the City of Williamston.  All four guests are graduates of our civil and environmental engineering programs.  Please make sure to attend out of respect for our guests. I have moved the due date for Mini-Design 1 from October 20 to the 27th.  However, there will be no extensions beyond the 48 hour grace period, so please plan accordingly.  I have not moved the sedimentation homework (which is open) from October 27th. I will open the filtration homework tomorrow. Today (October 15th) is the last day to turn in the Scavenger hunt report. I hope you enjoyed working on it. As I mentioned, I walked the Detroit International Half Marathon today.  I've included some photos for you.  Yes, I wore my mask in the corral as it was pretty crowded We're off... no we're wait...

Greetings, Teams 11-20 will visit the East Lansing/Meridian Township Water Treatment Plant this week. The plant is located off Burcham Road, just east of Park Lake Road as shown on the map below. October 10 : Teams 11-15 will attend from 10:15-11:15 AM Teams 16-20 will attend from 11:15 AM -12:15 PM. Teams 1-10: please use the time to work on the Tutorial Assignment 1(scavenger hunt or MiniDesign 1) I know this is a bit outside of our regular tutorial time, but I wanted to make sure that all students were able to spend an hour at the plant. Please plan to carpool with your team as parking is limited and please arrive approximately 5 minutes early so that each of the groups will have an hour to see the plant.  You should plan to enter the plant just off Burcham Road. There is a gate with a call box. When you enter the gate, keep to your right and then park in the lot in front of the main door.  I have posted a worksheet for the visit on LON-CAPA .  You will need ...

Greetings, Over the next two weeks, we will visit the East Lansing/Meridian Township Water Treatment Plant. The plant is located off Burcham Road, just east of Park Lake Road as shown on the map below. October 3: Teams 1-5 will attend from 10:15-11:15 AM Teams 6-10 will attend from 11:15 AM -12:15 PM. October 10 : Teams 11-15 will attend from 10:15-11:15 AM Teams 16-20 will attend from 11:15 AM -12:15 PM. I know this is a bit outside of our regular tutorial time, but I wanted to make sure that all students were able to spend an hour at the plant. Please plan to carpool with your team as parking is limited and please arrive approximately 5 minutes early so that each of the groups will have an hour to see the plant.  You should plan to enter the plant just off Burcham Road. There is a gate with a call box. When you enter the gate, keep to your right and then park in the lot in front of the main door.  I have posted a worksheet for the visit on LON-CAPA .  You will ne...