Welcome to ENE 480!

Greetings and welcome to ENE 480,

I hope all of you are well and enjoying the last days of your summer.  

Throughout the semester I will post my weekly email messages on the blog: https://ene480fall2022.blogspot.com, so if you've missed them, can't find them in the plethora of emails received, accidentally deleted it - you can always go to the blog. I will also post internships, coops, scholarship opportunities there.  The syllabus and other relevant material have been posted on the LON-CAPA site: https://loncapa.msu.edu/.

I am looking forward to being back in the classroom this fall. That said, COVID is not over, despite what so many would like to believe. And those of you who have taken ENE 489 with me, know SARS-COV2 is airborne and can remain in the room air for hours.

To slow the spread of COVID-19, Michigan State University is directing everyone to take personal responsibility to protect their own health and safety, as well as the health and safety of MSU faculty, staff, students, visitors and loved ones. The ASCE Code of Ethics states that the safety, health, and well-being of the public are paramount. As such, I will be wearing a N95 mask in class and will hold office hours remotely via Zoom. We'll talk more about risk mitigation and ethics the first week of class, but hopefully, as members of the engineering profession and the MSU community, you take these directives seriously. 

While I plan to lecture (on Mondays) from the classroom, I am also planning to broadcast and record the lectures using Zoom and post them (unedited) on MSU MediaSpace. I haven't lectured using Zoom from the classroom before, so please be patient with me as I sort this out. By using this approach, if you're sick or just not feeling well, you can stay home and still attend lecture. If I'm ill, I can stay home and still lecture. In this way, we can take responsibility for and protect one another. The Zoom link is on LON-CAPA and in the syllabus (also on LON-CAPA).

Please remember that August 31 is a Monday as far as the academic schedule goes. We will therefore meet for a regular lecture (3 -3:50 pm). 

Next week, there will be no lecture as Monday is Labor Day.  We will meet in the lab on Tuesday, Sept 6 and Thursday, Sept 8. Please note: lab attendance is required.  If you are ill and cannot make it to the lab, please let me know so we can schedule a make-up.

This survey will help me form lab teams.  Please complete it as soon as possible, but before September 5th. 

See you in class on Wednesday

All the best,

Dr. Masten

 

And a few photos from my trip to Australia to visit my son:

 













 

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