Week 7: October 15, 2023

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 waiting... too more than a half hour to get to the start
 

Ambassador Bridge in the background


In the distance you can see the two spans of the new cable-stayed bridge (photo taken for the CEs in the class)

On the bridge

Riverfront in Windsor

Riverfront in Windsor

Looking back at the Ambassador Bridge

Into the tunnel

Masks back on in the tunnel. No, I didn't have my CO2 monitor with me.

Woodward Avenue

Tiger Stadium


Yes, I was very happy to finish it. It was actually 13.5 miles (not 13.1) and we did it in 3:05:48, 13:45 min mile pace, and that was walking the entire thing except in the chute at the end. If I move slowly on Monday, you'll know why.

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