Course Materials 2013

Syllabus

Download the syllabus [PDF].

Presentations

Slides presented during the Spring 2013 course are provided below.

• Class 1 Materials: Slides
• Class 2 Materials: Slides
• Class 3 Materials: Slides
• Class 4 Materials: Slides
• Class 5 Materials: Slides (Part 1) (Part 2)
• Class 6 Materials: Slides
• Class 7 Materials: Slides (Part 1) (Part 2)
• Class 8 Materials: Slides
• Class 9 Materials: Slides
• Class 10 Materials: Slides
• Class 11 Materials: Slides
• Class 12 Materials: Slides
• Class 13 Materials: Slides
• Class 14 Materials: Slides
• Class 16 Materials: Slides
• Class 17 Materials: Slides
• Class 18 Materials: Slides
• Class 19 Materials: Slides
• Class 20 Materials: Slides
• Class 21 Materials: Slides
• Class 22 Materials: Slides
• Class 23 Materials: Slides
• Class 24 Materials: Slides

Readings

Download the list of readings [PDF].

Assignments

For several of the classes, students were given assignments to prepare before class.  These assignments are presented below, along with the final paper assignment given at the end of the course.

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Assignment 6
• Assignment 7
• Assignment 8
• Assignment 9
• Assignment 10
• Final Paper (Assignment 11)

Projects

The students formed interdisciplinary groups to conduct course projects that constituted the majority of the course grade. Presented below are: (1) the Project Overview introducing the class project, (2)  Posters and reports from the projects conducted by the students in the class.  (All files are in PDF format.)

1. Project Overview
2. Project Posters
   
   1. The Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste in California (Poster) (Report)
   2. How Does Electricity Generated from Woody Biomass Fit into California's Energy Future? (Poster) (Report)
   3. What is the Viability of Cellulosic Ethanol as an Alternative to Fossil Fuels in today's Economy? (Poster) (Report)
   4. Higher-Order Alcohols as Biofuels: An Interdisciplinary Examination (Poster) (Report)
   5. Thermochemical Processing of Digested Sludge and its Implications in the United States (Poster) (Report)