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Air Pollution 101

What is air pollution? Learn how greenhouse gasses, smog, and toxic pollutants effect climate change, and human health.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering
Keywords:: Air -- Pollution Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects Smog
Resource Type:: Video

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Arduino Introduction

The ultimate Arduino tutorial for beginners. Learn how to choose an Arduino, dim LEDs, build a motor speed controller and more.

Keywords:: Programmable controllers Arduino (Programmable controller)
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Automatic Bell Siphon Explained

This is a demo of a bell siphon I built in collaboration with a couple of engineering professors. There are certain cases where it would be nice to be able to create a siphon without any intervention, a self-priming or automatic siphon: the next level of siphonry. It's built out of an acrylic sheet and a piece of clear pipe.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering
Keywords:: Siphons
Resource Type:: Video

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Blender 3D - Low Poly Character Clothing

A tutorial on setting up clothing to low poly character.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media and Computing
Keywords:: Blender (Computer file) Three-dimensional display systems Computer animation Computer graphics
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Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources

Are you fascinated by Geosciences and willing to take the challenge of predicting the nature and behavior of the Earth subsurface? This is your course! In a voyage through the Earth, Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources will explore the Earth interior and the processes forming mountains and sedimentary basins. You will understand how the sediments are formed, transported, deposited and deformed. You will develop knowledge on the behavior of petroleum and water resources. The course has an innovative approach focusing on key fundamental processes, exploring their nature and quantitative interactions. It will be shown how this acquired knowledge is used to predict the nature and behavior of the Earth subsurface. This is your ideal first step as a future Geoscientists or professional to upgrade your knowledge in the domain of Earth Sciences.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences and Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Keywords:: Plate tectonics Earth sciences Petroleum -- Geology Geology Hydrology
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Global Cityscope - Disaster Planning and Post-Disaster Rebuilding and Recovery

This class is designed to expose you to the cycles of disasters, the roots of emergency planning in the U.S., how to understand and map vulnerabilities, and expose you to the disaster planning in different contexts, including in developing countries.

Subjects:: Disaster Control and Management
Keywords:: Hazard mitigation Emergency management Disaster relief
Resource Type:: Courseware

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How Do Sinkholes Form?

Sinkholes form through both natural and human-made processes. Most of us think about erosion on the surface of the earth, but erosion can occur in the subsurface as well. In fact, scientist and engineers have a very creative name for just such a process: internal erosion. If just the right factors come together in the subsurface, some very interesting things can occur, including sinkholes.

Subjects:: Geotechnical Engineering
Keywords:: Sinkholes Soil erosion
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How Quicksand Causes Dam Failures

In civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud! The "quick condition" occurs when seepage reduces the effective stress of a soil. This can lead to some dangerous conditions, especially if the seepage causes piping erosion to occur at a dam.

Subjects:: Hydraulic Engineering
Keywords:: Seepage Dam failures Quicks Fluid mechanics
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How Soil Destroys Buildings

Expansive soils cause more property damage per year than earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. Expansive soils are a slow-moving geologic phenomenon, which makes them not very news-worthy. However, they still cause a tremendous amount of damage to buildings and the public infrastructure we rely on every day.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering, Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Foundations Soil mechanics Swelling soils
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How does land surveying work?

This video explores a primer on one of the most important companions to civil engineering: land surveyors. Conventional measurement tools like a tape measure and protractor don't work for large civil structures and public works projects. Surveying is essentially the science of measuring big stuff. In this video I give a quick explanation of how surveying works and show a few ways you can do your own leveling survey at home. No sines, cosines, or tangents required!

Subjects:: Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Keywords:: Surveying
Resource Type:: Video

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Air Pollution 101

Arduino Introduction

Automatic Bell Siphon Explained

Blender 3D - Low Poly Character Clothing

Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources

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How Do Sinkholes Form?

How Quicksand Causes Dam Failures

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