Description
This course discusses energy sources and their use in biological and physical processes, energy efficiency and design. The students will be introduced to the nature of light and ultra violet, and infared radiation, photosynthesis, biofuels, and fossil fuel engery production, solar photovoltaic cells, the laws of thermodynamics, heat engines, and heat pumps, efficiency, climate change processes, resource and space usage, struture, and transportation, and design concepts.