36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture. "Course No. 1116"--Container. Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 388-391). Presenter, Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy at West Point.
Contents:
disc 6: The future: engineering for sustainability. Your house as an engineered system -- Three structural systems for load bearing -- Platform-framed housing construction -- The building envelope -- Site design and storm runoff -- disc 2: Dam, reservoir, and aqueduct design -- Water treatment and distribution -- Wastewater disposal and treatment -- Fossil fuels: coal,oil, and natural gas -- Power generation from coal -- Oil, gas, and nuclear power -- disc 3: Renewable sources of electricity -- Electrical power transmission: the grid -- Electrical power distribution -- Everyday thermodynamics: refrigeration -- Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning -- Home energy efficiency -- disc 4: Passive solar and net-zero- energy homes -- The plain old telephone service -- The global telecommunications network -- Cellular phone technology -- Satellites and satellite communications -- Simple machines around the houses -- disc 5: User-centered design -- The internal combustion engine -- Torque, power, and transmission -- The drivetrain -- Suspension, steering, and braking -- Highway engineering -- disc 6: Traffic engineering -- Everyday bridges -- Tunnel engineering -- The railroad -- Solid waste disposal and recycling -- The future: engineering for sustainability.
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