BAE815 Graduate Seminar

This two-year (four semesters) graduate seminar series is designed to provide academic orientation and assistance for graduate students. The seminar covers general topics for graduate study, including literature review; academic writing and publishing; data analysis, interpretation and presentation; and research presentation/teaching. Each semester will focus on one specific theme. 

Topics:

• Tips for literature review (2018 fall)
• Tips for graduate study
• Tips for graduate study (literature review)
• Keys for successful research
• Define your research question
• Focus your topic
• Effective literature review
• One page overview of your research project
• Literature search and management
• Critical appraisal of literature
• Systematic review and meta-anaysis
• Data Analysis for Scientific Research
• Test of hypotheses
• Experimental design
• Tools to support data analysis and visualization
• Discussing limitations and common myths in data analysis
• From statistics to data science
• What you should know before you collect data
• Introduction to Systems Thinking and Causal Loop Diagrams
• Presenting your result (Tips for academic writing)
• Tips for writing literature review
• Tips for effective research presentation
• Academic Writing(1. Basic Skills)
• Academic Writing(2. Patterns, Tips and Traps)

Dr. Liu ResearchTIPS on Youtube:

• Literature review 1: Learn and think. Why we do literature review, and how do I start?
• Literature review 2: Two cycles of review process. Read thick to thin, and then thin to thick
• Literature review 3: How to generate a good research question. Three rhetorical patterns
• Literature review 4: How to set research objectives. Big idea and small steps
• Academic writing 1: How to write an opinion essay? Two effective models
• Academic writing 2: Five tips to make your paper concise and clear
• Academic writing 3: Three methods to develop a coherent paragraph
• Research presentation 1: Three elements and two keys to make it impressive
• Research presentation 2: Five actionable tips to prepare a confident speech
• Research presentation 3: One mindset fix and 5 tricks to project confidence on stage
• How to read fast and learn more? A structural method for the information age
• Research presentation 4: Add life to your presentations using storytelling
• Research presentation 5: Handling questions in presentations | Tips for Q&A
• How to stop procrastinating | Three Tips on self-motivation
• How to be More Productive | Multi-tasking and Teamwork
• How to be a Clearer Thinker | Model Thinking and Systems Thinking
• How to Find The Job You Love | The Road to Financial Freedom
• Three Ways to Find Your Strength and Two Tips to Leverage It 
• Academic writing 4: How to Write Conclusions | Inductive, Deductive, and Abductive reasoning
• Academic writing 5: How to Write a Compelling Introduction
• The #1 Enemy to Kill If We Want Growth and Success
• Academic writing 6: Key Elements of a Research Proposal in One Page
• Time Management and Energy Management | Time Blocking Needed On Daily and Weekly Schedule
• How to Read to Learn More and Remember Longer | Deep Reading and SQ3R
• Literature review 5: How to Narrow Down a Research Topic
• Job Interviews Presentation -  How To Do a Research Talk for Job Interview
• PowerPoint presentation tips for students | Designing effective visual aids

BAE651 Air Pollution Engineering

Topics:

• Identify the criteria pollutants and describe their major effects.
• Describe the air quality management system in the U.S.
• Calculate air pollutant concentrations and emission rates.
• Analyze size distributions of particulate matter.
• Calculate the terminal settling velocity and equivalent aerodynamic diameter of a particle.
• Explain the principles of operation of the different control devices for particulate and gaseous pollutants.
• Analyze/design air pollution control devices.
• Predict air pollutant concentrations downwind of an air pollution source using an atmospheric dispersion model.

Textbook: Cooper, C. D. and F. C. Alley.  2011.  Air pollution control: a design approach.  4th ed.  Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc. 

BAE820 Physical Principles of Environmental Systems

This course is designed to provide a review of physical principles which form the basis for the control and modeling of environmental pollutants.

Topics:

• Stokes’ law and Reynold’s number
• Fick’s law and Brownian motion
• Single Particle Dynamics
• Estimation of diffusion coefficient
• Henry’s law-Rault’s law-Freundlich isotherm
• Inter phase mass transfer-Two film theory
• Dimensionless analysis-Reynold analogy
• Turbulent mass transfer and log wind profile
• Fate and transport of pollutants in the air environment
• Fate and transport of pollutants in the water environment
• Flow through a circular tube, flow through porous media, osmotic pressure, centrifugation
• Principles of reaction kinetics
• Acquisition of reaction rate data
• Concepts in reactor design
• Catalysis of environmental reactions
• Combustion fundamentals and fire dynamics
• Air quality modeling