New course examines hot issue of global warming
Engineering 597, open to both upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, seeks to increase awareness of global warming with lectures from numerous experts on the subject.
Chemical engineering professor Wei-Yin Chen proposed and received approval for the course and has recruited 18 other UM faculty members as instructors for the course.
“The immediate goal of our activities is to raise awareness of the global-warming issue,” Chen says. “The second objective of this initiative is to consolidate an intellectual base at the university to help mitigate the effects of climate change.”
Professors from chemical, civil, mechanical and geological engineering are scheduled to lecture this spring, as well as professors from chemistry, computational hydroscience, pharmacy, physical acoustics, biology, and philosophy and religion. Topics include energy economics, ecological and health impact, energy conservation, nuclear energy and effects of climate change on coastal floods.
Lecture notes and slides from each presentation are available for public viewing at http://home.olemiss.edu/~cmchengs/Global%20Warming.
