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Clean Air and Energy for California
Professor Joe Norbeck
ENGR 092-15N
Call# 19676
Tuesdays, 11:10am-12:00pm, Bourns A171

This course will introduce incoming freshman to the issues related to attainment of the air quality standards in California and future sources of clean energy. It will present an historical perspective of the relationship between both mobile and stationary sources to air quality, in particular, smog. The main emphasis will be placed on emissions from vehicles, the changes in fuels and technology over the recent years, the future of hydrogen, fuel cells, and other alternative fuels. We will visit CE-CERT laboratories so the students can have hands on experience of some of the vehicles of the future and the research that is being done at UCR and in California on transportation and energy.

Reading List:

There will be handouts but no specific textbook.

Brief Biographical Statement:

Yeager Families Professor of Environmental Engineering and the founding Director of the Bourns College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology. He obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Nebraska in 1970 and 1974, respectively. His primary areas of research interest include development of air pollution control technology for both mobile and stationary sources, development and evaluation of alternative fuels for transportation, the chemical speciation of air borne toxic and particulate emissions of gasoline and diesel engines, and environmental and emissions modeling.