Energy and Society Fall'09 Class plan

1) Everybody will do one "News" presentation (no slides, 10min +
discussions), one short project (with slides, 15 min + discussions)
and one main project (with slides, 30 min + discussions). See below
for the specific dates.

2) The "as presented" writeups for the projects are due a week after
your presentation. The writeup should go over the contents of your
slides, any explanation if needed, answers to any questions that might
have come up during the presentation and references. No long writeups,
please, and don't ask me how many pages. Just email me your writeup
and the (corrected) presentation slides. No need to print anything.

3) You must pick your project topic and tell me at least three weeks
before the presentation date. If you don't, somebody else may take the
topic and you will have to scramble.

4) I am happy to help you every stage of the way in picking topics,
preparation, looking over your draft slides and giving you feedback
and so on.  Just send me an email. ("Does this topic sound ok?", "xxx
area interests me.  Can you suggest a topic?", "Can you look over this
outline?", "Is my logic and numbers on slide N correct?", "How do I
figure out the numbers for xxx?" "Can I modify my topic to xxx?")

5) There will be plenty of interruptions during your
presentations. Think of this class a team working together.  Stop your
friends from talking over your head and don't hesitate to argue or
take the devil's advocate position.  It will be a very dead class if
the speaker just drones on and on. I will do my part by inerrupting a
lot - to explain, argue or just to go on a long detour.

6) I MUST be informed sufficiently in advance by both parties if you
swap your presentation dates.

7) You can bring your own laptop for the presentation, or email the
powerpoint or pdf to me (keep the size small!) sufficiently before
your presentation date and use my laptop. You can also bring your
presentation on a flash memory stick, but be absolutely sure that
there are no viruses etc on it.  Do a virus check scan of the device,
please. If you bring your own laptop, be sure you know how to switch
display to the projector.  Also bring your power supply so that the
battery does not run out during the presentation.

8) MAC USERS:  
a) Please make sure that you bring any special connector cable etc 
needed to hook up your Mac to the projector.  
b) pdf files prepared on Mac don't always show up correctly on a Windows 
machine. Please make sure beforehand that they do.  Otherwise, you may end
up with half of your presentation not showing up. The best thing to do is
to bring your Mac with the special connector cable.

9) This plan WILL CHANGE as we go along.  It is YOUR responsibility to know 
when your presentations are.
      

W Sep  2 Intro/Basics (Lecture)
Tu     8 Basics (Lecture)
W      9 News: David
M     14 News: Fredericks
W     16 News: Hagee
M     21 News: Kamal,Short Presentation: David
W     23 News: Mitchell,Short Presentation: Fredericks  
M     28 News: Mustufa,Short Presentation: Hagee  
W     30 News: Nosker, Short Presentation: Kamal
M Oct  5 News: Senjalia, Short Presentation: Mitchell
W      7 News: Shklar,Short Presentation: Mustufa 
M     12 News: Singh, Short Presentation: Nosker
W     14 News: Verma,Short Presentation: Senjalia 
M     19 Short Presentation: Shklar,Presentation: David
W     21 Short Presentation: Singh,Presentation:Fredericks
M     26 Short Presentation: Verma,Presentation:Hagee
W     28 Presentation:Kamal
M Nov  2 Presentation:Mitchell
W      4 Presentation:Mustufa
M      9 Presentation:Nosker
W     11 Presentation:Senjalia
M     16 guest lecture?
W     18 guest lecture?
M     23 Presentation:Shklar
                            Thanksgiving
M     30 Presentation:Singh
W Dec  2 Presentation: Verma, Quiz (short and easy!)
M      7 Cogeneration Plant Tour?
W      9 Conclusion