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Everyone understands the convenience of flipping on a light switch, but it's the rare person who considers how this convenience is produced and what's left behind after energy is created. This interactive online course will take you behind the scenes of coal-based energy production to learn what happens to the by-products.
Who Should Take This Course?
| • | Educators seeking continuing education credits |
| • | New employees needing a basic understanding of the coal-based power plant industry |
| • | Professional engineers requiring professional development units |
| • | State environmental or transportation employees who want a better understanding of coal ash |
About the Course
The course offers a unique blend of geography, chemistry, and engineering. Students learn from and participate in self-checks, video/audio and text-based lectures, quizzes, animation, and graphical elements. Lesson titles include the following:
- Coal 101
- Power Plant Basics
- Emission Control Technologies
- Introduction to Coal Ash
- Coal Ash Utilization
- Geotechnical Applications
- Chemical and Physical Properties of Coal Ash
- Barriers to Coal Ash Utilization
- Alternative Energy
- Energy-Efficient Living
See this course in action by viewing the online demonstration developed from selected pages throughout the lessons.
Want to register? Here's how.
The course is offered through the University of North Dakota (UND) Department of Continuing Education. Enrollees are not required to be admitted to UND. Students can enroll at any time during the year (courses are not semester-based), may work at their own pace, and take up to 9 months to complete a course.
The cost to take the course is US$125, and no additional course materials are required.
If you would like to register, contact UND Extension Program at 701-777-4814 or toll free at 1-866-261-3677.
If you have any questions about the course content, contact Debra Pflughoeft-Hassett at 701-777-5296.
Coal Ash in the classroom is an online course. If you would like to register for the Coal Ash Professionals Training Course, March 11–13, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas, please visit www.undeerc.org/coalash08/.
Course development was sponsored by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), Great River Energy, the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, the UND Department of Continuing Education, and the American Coal Ash Association.