Contact us:
Dr. Zifei Liu
Assistant Professor
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Kansas State University
043 Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
Email: Zifeiliu@ksu.edu
Phone: 785-532-3587
Fax: 785-532-5825
Teaching
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