Subsections

• Dates and Presenting Groups
• Group Members
• Special Notes

Introductory Lectures and Assignments

Please review the special notes at the bottom of this page!

The first 5 class sessions are designed to give you an overview of the field of Environmental Engineering, and a glimpse of the types of problems that Enviromental Engineers solve. For each of these days, you will be expected to have viewed the material on the web prior to class (access via the links below). The first ten minutes of class will be devoted to a review of that material. During the remainder of the class period, two groups will present an environmental problem or issue that they have found in the popular press (e.g., New York Times newspaper, Time magazine, Newsweek magazine, Detroit Free Press) that is related to the topic of the day. For each of these environmental "problems," the groups will be expected to present to the class:

0.

Include the source of your article (newspaper or magazine, title, author, date, pages).

1.

What is the environmental problem or issue?

What is the problem? Where did it arise? Who is affected? Why?

2.

What is the formal and informal attitude of society toward this problem?

2a.

What regulations do you know of that concern this problem?

2b.

What different societal attitudes exist concerning this problem?

3.

What are some possible approaches towards resolving the problem?

4.

Choose one approach and

a.

identify the scientific or engineering knowledge needed;

b.

identify the professions involved in implementing the solution.

You may use transparencies or PowerPoint slides to make your presentation. You must write up and hand in the information for the four points above together with a copy of the news article. If you use PowerPoint, be sure to email the presentation file to R. Honrath (reh@mtu.edu) no later than 8 am on the day of your presentation.

Some examples of previous student presentations are available below. (Be sure to address the points listed above, and those under ``special notes'' below, regardless of whether these previous groups did or not.)

• Air Quality presentation.
• Drinking Water presentation.

Dates and Presenting Groups

Topic	Groups Presenting
Topic 1. Surface Water Quality (8/26/02)
Topic 2. Drinking water and Ground water (8/28/02)	Group 1, Group 2
Topic 3. Air Quality (8/30/02)	Group 4, Group 3
Topic 4. Solid & Hazardous Waste (9/4/02)	Group 5, Group 7
Topic 5. Wastewater Treatment (9/6/02)	Group 6, Group 8

Group Members

Group 1

Tiffany Torrance
Chadni Bhasin
Cindy Kurc
Rachel Hatten

Group 2

Ashley Parks
Melissa Trahan
Nikki Drenning
Heather Wright

Group 3

Tamera Cole
Katherine Gabrysch
Curtis Pranger
Eric Rice

Group 4

Andy Charlick
Craig Bayer
Scott Pawlukiewicz
Aaron Tice

Group 5

Jack Garrison
Amy Quinn
Nick Anton
Josh Read
Salvadora Keith

Group 6

Joe Holzwart
Nathan Vogel
Jason Stefanski
Noah Mundt

Group 7

Amanda McKenna
Ken Flagstadt
Sarah Porter
Kim Schouten

Group 8

Peter Koepfgen
Anthony Moraska
Chris Buntjer
Ryan Cameron

Special Notes

Please remember the following:

• Everyone should read each day's presentation before class - not just the group doing the presentation. The presentations are available for reading above (under the heading ``Dates'').
• Your presentation must take no longer than 15 minutes! To prevent class from going more than 50 minutes, I will have to stop you if you go longer than 15 minutes.
• Your article should be no more than 12 months old (the more recent, the better).
• Two groups cannot use the same article! To prevent this from happening, email me the name of your article even if you use transparencies for your presentation. If the same article is chosen by two groups by chance, I will allow the first group that emails me to use it, and the second group will need to find an alternative article - so email early!
• Computer presentation or transparencies?
  • Computer presentations may use PowerPoint or PDF files. If you use one of these, you must email the file to R. Honrath (reh@mtu.edu no later than 8 am the day of your presentation.
  • Transparencies may be obtained and copied in the CEE office, room 870 Dow Env Eng & Sci Bldg. See Corrine Leppen, and tell her that you need to make some copies to transparencies for a CE3501 course presentation, per instructions from Dr. Honrath.
• Don't forget to bring a written version of your talk, including information on the 4 points listed above, to class on the day of your presentation.