Welcome to the web site for Senior Seminar Fall 2004 (Bowen)

Welcome to the web site for

Senior Seminar 1, ISP 4760, Section 001
Senior Seminar 2, ISP 4860, Section 001
Mondays at 6 PM in 220 Cohn Building on WSU campus

Last updated: 12/13/04

Instructor: David Bowen, home page
d.r.bowen@wayne.edu
Work: 313-577-1498, FAX 313-577-8585
2311 A/AB (5700 Cass Avenue) / Wayne State University / Detroit, MI 48202
Home: 248-548-8518
4704 Elmhurst / Royal Oak, MI 48073
Ford (Fridays and some Thursdays): 313-390-2155

Web site contents:

Course Documents
Online Tools
The Class
Research Links
Other sites of interest

Course Documents

Syllabus
Research requirements
Oral presentations
Agenda 1 for September 13
- Personal fuel use and cost
- Personal occupancy
Agenda 2 for September 20
- Syllabus Supplement / Correction
Agenda 3 for September 27
- News Items 9/21 - 9/27
- Using unchat
Agenda 4 for October 4 (online, using unchat)
- News Items 9/27 - 10/3
- Transcript of online chat
Agenda 5 for October 11
- News Items 10/4 - 10/11
- Portfolio self-assessment
Agenda 6 for October 18
- Fuel Use and Cost Spreadsheet
- News Items 10/12 - 10/18
- Paper Planning Form
Agenda 7 for October 25
- News Items 10/19 - 10/25
Agenda 8 for November 1
- News Items 10/20 - 11/1
Agenda 9 for November 8
Agenda 10 for November 15
- News Items 10/20 - 11/15
Agenda 11 for November 22
- News Items 11/16 - 11/22
Agenda 12 for November 29
- News Items 11/23 - 11/29
Agenda 13 for 12/6
Agenda 14 for 12/13

Online Tools

online Course Information Form
online Grade Reports
unchat for Monday October 4 (http://techtools.culma.wayne.edu:9006/index.html) Better if you use Internet Explorer!

The Class

Future home of online class photo album
Class ListServ: sesef04@lists.wayne.edu

Research Links

Government web sites
- US Department of Transportation
  - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
    - Car safety ratings
  - Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    - Household transportation survey, and results from survey
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  - EPA Fuel Economy (gas mileage) Guides
    http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/feg2000.htm
  - EPA CAFE (gas mileage) Regulations
    http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/factshts/fefact01.pdf
  - EPA Emissions Regulations
    http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/veh-cert/b00001a.pdf
  - EPA Global Warming
    http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
- US Department of Energy
  - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program (Department of Energy)
    http://www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels
  - US Energy Information Administration (energy use and other statistics)
    http://www.eia.doe.gov/
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  http://www.noaa.gov/
  - NOAA Global Programs web site (Global Warming here)
    http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/
- US Geological Survey (within Department of Interior)
  - Energy
- California Air Resources Board (CARB, but in California it's just ARB)
  http://www.arb.ca.gov/homepage.htm
- Michigan Department of Environmental Qualtiy (MDEQ)
- Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
  - Ozone plan announcement
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). (OPEC is a cartel, or formal association of manufacturers agreeing not to compete. It sets oil production quotas for its eleven members.)
Non-governmental web sites
- Global Climate Coalition. This industry organization is deactivated but here is its web site.
- Dieselnet, a web site devoted to "green diesels," probably sponsored by diesel-related companies.
- Alliance of Automobile Maufacturers, auto industry trade group (includes all major international auto manufacturers except Nissan and Honda)
- American Automobile Association (AAA)
  - Annual cost of owning a car
New for October 11
- Pew Center for Global Climate Change
  - State activities, 2004 update
- American for Balanced Energy Choices (argues that coal can be made environmentally acceptable)
- Small is Profitable
- Hypercar, Inc, advocating design of sustainable vehicles, including a 99-mpg SUV
- Rocky Mountain Institute, advocating sustainable technologies
  - Hypercar (c) transition
- NEP Initiative, advocating for a national energy policy
- British Broadcasting Corporation global warming web site
New for October 18
- EPA mileage ratings from 1978 on
- International Energy Administration (a semi-official agency with membership from major world economies from Europe, Asia, and the United States.) Its forecasts of energy demand are taken seriously by the energy markets.
New for October 25
- Winning the Oil Endgame (Rocky Mountain Institute) by Amory Lovins et al.
- Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), MI company producing solar cells. this web site works better with Internet Explorer.
  - This site has a link to video of ECD modified H2 car
- List of ecosystem services, from Union of Concerned Scientists and Ecological Society of America
  http://www.esa.org/education/edupdfs/ecosystemservices.pdf
- WSU NextEnergy Center
New for November 8
- Robert Q. Riley's web site
- NHTSA report on safety of Vehicle Dynamics Systems
New for November 15
- Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
- New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) where petroleum prices are set
- NHTSA analysis of safety improvements for Enhanced Stability Control (ESC) systems
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, primary scientific assessment body for global warming)
New for November 22
- Fuel cell animation (from Schatz Energy research Center, Humboldt University, Arcata, CA)
- Fuel cell companies
  - Ballard Power Systems (Barnaby, British Columbia, Canada, US office in Dearborn, MI)
  - Hydrogenics Corporation (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
- American Physical Society report on a hydrogen economy. "The report identifies six cross-cutting areas as critical research directions, including catalysis; nanostructured materials; membranes and separations; characterization and measurement techniques; theory, modeling and simulation; and safety and environmental issues." The report is on a US Department of Energy (DOE) server because it was a report to the US DOE.
New for November 29
- AVERE, European Electric Road Vehicle Association
New for December 8
- National Commission on Energy Policy
  - Full report
  - Summary
New for December 16
- Cooler Heads Coalition, described by The New York Times as "an industry-financed group opposed to cutting the emissions" but presenting itself as a consumer-oriented group
- World Meteorological Organization. Released a report on December 16 (but as of 12/16 not yet on this web site), 2004 saying that global warming does show up in temperature data and violent storms, and that insurers are having record payouts world wide for storm damage.
- CNN story on the report of the World Meteorological Association
Books
- Energy and Oil Supplies
  - Deffeyes, Kenneth S. Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage, Revised. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.
  - Committee on Science and Technology, US House of Representatives. Hydrogen: Its Production and Energy Uses. New York: Books for Business. 1980 (reprinted 2003).
  - Roberts, Paul. The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2004.
  - Nviola, Pietro S. and Robert W. Crandall. The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation.Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution 1995.
  - Vaitheeswaran, Vijay V. Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform and Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2003.
- Global Warming
  - Graedel, Thomas E. and Paul J. Crutzan, Atmosphere, Climate, and Change. New York: Scientific American Library, 1997.
  - Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Global Crisis
  - Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
    This book has a web site with information and links relevant to this course. Here they are:
    - Resources for Citizens This web site speaks of "Ten Transitions" necessary to cope with the global crisis. Transitions 3 and 4 are particularly relevant for this course.
      - Transition 3: Environmentally Benign Technologies (includes Global Warming)
      - Transition 4: Environmentally Honest Prices (includes paying the full price for a resource such as petroleum)
Articles
- Mobility 2030, a report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (6MB)
- Texas Transportation Institute report on current traffic congestion
  - How congested are we?
  - The cost of traffic congestion
- Appenzeller, Tim, "The End of Cheap Oil," National Geographic Vol 205 No 6 June 2004.
- Herzog, Howard, Baldur Eliasson and Olav Kaarstad, "Capturing Greenhouse Gases." Scientific American Vol 282 No 2, February 2000. (Sequestration)
- Epstein, Paul R. "Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?." Scientific American Vol 283 No 2, August 2000.
- Burns, Lawrence D., J. Byron McCormick and Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, "Vehicle of Change." Scientific American Vol 287 No 4 October 2002. (Fuel-cell cars)
- Bindschadler, Robert A. and Charles R. Bentley, "On Thin Ice?" Scientific American Vol 287 No 6 December 2002. (Possible breakup of West Antarctic ice sheet)
- Hansen, James, "Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb," Scientific American Vol 290 No 3 March 2004
Ford Research VP Speech on changes coming in the automobile industry

Other sites of interest

Not Just A to B - America's love affair with the car
Forwarding your WSU email to another email address