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Applications of Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Submitted by admin on July 14, 2008 - 9:53am.Department:
Energy and Resources Group
Course Number:
ER 199
Course Title:
Applications of Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Description:
Can be applied to the ERG minor if taken for 3 units. This course serves as an introduction to
using energy efficiency and conservation in real applications. Students will apply background academic knowledge of the energy sector to work on energy and climate problems at UC Berkeley. Students will: Use energy efficiency and conservation to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions on campus
Learn how to conduct energy audits and analyze building energy consumption in workshops given by professionals
Implement an energy plan for a campus building that includes educational programs and structural/operational changes
Gain essential experience in project development and management. The class will be held on Wednesdays from 2-4pm. Please contact Laura Moreno (lmoreno@berkeley.edu) if you are interested in taking either course (please specify which course you are interested in) or if you have any questions. Course control numbers will be sent out in mid-August.
Units:
1-3
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Undergraduate
Gadgil, Ashok
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 1:24pm.Name of Person:
Ashok Gadgil
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Department:
Energy and Resources Group, Adjunct Professor
Research Interests:
Ashok Gadgil has active research in energy use and airflows in buildings. He also has long and active research in analysis, research, development and implementation of technologies for improved energy-efficiency and environmental performance in the developing countries, in a range of sectors.
Achievements:
Ashok Gadgil received an award from San Jose’s (CA) Tech Museum of Innovation, which honors people who use technology to help humanity, for developing a water purification system that kills bacteria with ultraviolet light. The system, called UV Waterworks and marketed by WaterHealth International, Inc., is used daily by about 300,000 people in Mexico, the Philippines, and several other countries. Several systems will soon be installed in his native India. Money is currently being raised to install the system in tsunami-stricken regions of Sri Lanka and India. His invention appeared in Forbes Magazine in 2003. Ashok Gadgil is also developing a cheap and effective way to provide safe drinking water to 60 million Bangladeshis who live under the specter of arsenic poisoning. His idea is to create arsenic filters from coal ash, the fine gray powder that piles up at the bottom of furnaces at all coal-fired power stations, waiting to be discarded. Although still in the investigational stage, Gadgil’s technique would involve coating the ash with a compound that attracts arsenic, filling teabag-sized pouches with the powder, and distributing the filters throughout the countryside, one per family per day. Water drawn from any one of the millions of contaminated wells that dot Bangladesh could then be poured through the filter and safely consumed. Gadgil has numerous publications spanning the areas of drinking water efficiency and indoor air quality.
Master's Seminar
Submitted by cmjones on April 18, 2007 - 11:56am.Department:
ENE, RES
Course Number:
292D
Course Title:
Master's Seminar
Instructor:
Farrell
Description:
Required of second-year Energy and Resources' Master's candidates. Topics include the adoption of a research project, research design, presentation of work, statistical analyses. Students will apply the interdisciplinary methods, approaches, and perspectives learned in the core curriculum. Sequence begins spring each year. Credit and grade to be awarded upon completion of the full sequence
Units:
2
Offered:
Fall and Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Tools for the Trade
Submitted by cmjones on April 18, 2007 - 11:54am.Department:
ENE, RES
Course Number:
292A
Course Title:
Tools for the Trade
Instructor:
Kammen
Description:
Quantitative methods for energy and resource analysis. Topics include linear algebra, differential equations, statistical methods, chemical equilibrium theory, and thermodynamics
Units:
2
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
Colloquium
Submitted by cmjones on April 18, 2007 - 11:53am.Department:
ENE, RES
Course Number:
C295
Course Title:
Colloquium
Instructor:
Kammen
Description:
Presentations of research in energy issues by faculty, students, and visiting lecturers. Master's degree students required to enroll for two semesters.
Units:
1
Offered:
Fall and Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Kammen, Daniel
Submitted by cmjones on March 16, 2007 - 1:26pm.Name of Person:
Daniel Kammen
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Department:
Goldman School of Public Policy, Professor
Research Interests:
Dr. Kammen's research interests include: the science, engineering, management, and dissemination of renewable energy systems; health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use; rural resource management, including issues of gender and ethnicity; international R&D policy, climate change; and energy forecasting and risk analysis.
Achievements:
Dan Kammen founded and directs the unique Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, cited by many as the only ‘one stop’ site for energy science and engineering projects that are merged with energy finance and economics, sociology, market, and environmental impact studies. Recent RAEL contributions include: (i) significantly supporting and strengthening the burgeoning solar photovoltaic industries in East Africa, that have become the free-market model for a large number of nations; (ii) bringing the potential of continent-wide sustainable biofuel industries with major energy and health impacts to the attention of world leaders; (iii) highlighting the job benefits of clean energy investments, a story that became central to the adoption of clean energy standards in a number of states as well as a focal point of several national election campaigns; and (iv) focusing national attention on the federal under-investment in energy research, development, and deployment. He is co-author of Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health and Technological Problem Solving (Princeton University Press, 1999) and over 100 technical and refereed publications.
Rochlin, Gene
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 10:58am.Name of Person:
Gene Rochlin
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Department:
Energy and Resources Group, Professor
Research Interests:
Science, technology and society, cultural and cognitive studies of technical operations, the politics and policy of energy and environmental matters, and the broader cultural, organizational and social implications and consequences of technology – including large technical systems.
Koshland, Catherine
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:25pm.Name of Person:
Catherine Koshland
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Department:
Energy and Resources Group, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Koshland's research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds
Koshland, Catherine
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 2:33pm.Name of Person:
Catherine, Koshland
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Department:
Engineering, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Koshland's research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds
Koshland, Catherine
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 2:28pm.Name of Person:
Catherine Koshland
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Department:
Public Health, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Koshland's research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds