MAE
118B: Emerging 21st Century Energy Systems – Syllabus
Last Updated January 4 2008
Instructors: Prof. George Tynan
Office: 457
EBU2
Phone:
534-9724
E-mail: gtynan@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Monday 11:00am -1:45pm
Teaching
Assistant:
Ms. Zheng Yan
Office: EBU-II Room L-309
Phone: 534 4971
E-mail: zyan@ferp.ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Friday
930am-1230pm
Homework Recitation: Fridays 3-4pm
Locations and Lecture
Schedule:
Lectures:
Warren Lecture Hall 2207 MWF 2:00-3:00pm
Recitation/Makeup
Lectures: Cogitive Science
Building Room 004 Friday 3:00pm-4:00pm
VERY IMPORTANT: For
email contact with the instructor or TA please put ÒMAE 118BÓ first in the subject of the email. We receive many emails each day, and
this helps to avoid us not seeing or reading your messages.
Course Objective:
Introduce students to the
technical aspects of emerging 21st century primary energy sources
and conversion techniques. Examine anticipated world-wide energy growth
in 21st century. Consider implications and relationships
between global climate change and growing global energy use.
Texts:
Assumed Background:
Senior standing in
engineering or physical sciences. A basic understanding of elementary
physics and thermodynamics is assumed, as is a background in calculus.
Interested students with other backgrounds or major fields should speak with
instructor before enrolling.
Grading:
Homework: 10%
Midterm: 45%
Final: 45%
There will be 5-6
homework assignments, counting for 10% of the final grade, which are considered
essential learning tools in the class. Students are encouraged to work
out the basic approach to homework solutions together. Each student must turn
in their own solutions to homework written in their own hand or prepared
independently on a computer. Papers must be affixed by staples (no clips,
etc.) and must be legible. The TA may take off points if a solution is
unreadable.
A midterm and a final
exam will count for 45% each towards the final grade. These exams will
occur at announced times in class, and will be closed book, closed notes, no
calculators or any other electronic devices will be permitted.
Remark on Office
Hours:
You are welcome to go
over anything from class during office hours, including general ideas and
methods for solving particular problems. You should come prepared - that
means that you have reviewed the relevant notes, you have done the assigned
reading, and you have gone over any example problems that were provided.
If you need help with a specific problem, you should bring the work you have
been able to do.
Regrades:
If you believe that
there is a mistake in the grading of an assignment or an exam, describe the
error in writing and give the whole assignment or exam back to the instructor
or a TA. Regrades are accepted for one week after graded assignments are
returned to you, so, for example, if you receive a graded homework back on a
Thursday, the last day to request a regrade is on the following Thursday.
Academic Integrity:
The instructors take
the principles of academic honesty very seriously, and expect you to read and
understand the campus policy on Integrity of Scholarship, which is linked
electronically here:
http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/manual/appendices/app2.htm#AP14.
You are free to
discuss assignments with the instructors, the TAs, and your fellow students
– in fact talking about ideas and approaches is a good way to learn the
material. Plagiarism and other forms of neglecting to give credit
for other peoplesÕ ideas are strictly prohibited. Please speak with the
instructor if you have any questions about academic honesty or if you observe
any questionable behaviors in class. Any violation of the UCSD Policy on
Integrity of Scholarship is grounds for failure of the class and submission of
the matter to appropriate UCSD review procedures.