Week 6 Participation Question and Weekly Email Message


Happy Saturday (I know, it's only Friday, but I plan to send this out on Friday),

I hope all is well with all of you. 

On Monday we will discuss filtration.  I decided to move filtration up so that we can continue to proceed through a conventional water treatment plant.  We'll then discuss disinfection.  After that we'll look at some of the more specialized treatment processes: ion exchange, adsorption, membrane filtration, and air stripping/aeration. We'll end the semester with a short unit looking at wastewater treatment, where we can apply many of the processes discussed all semester. 

On Tuesday, Alison Lukens, MSU ENE graduate, will discuss water reclamation. Alison is presently working for Mead & Hunt.

On Wednesday, we will continue with filtration. And as a reminder, your MiniDesign 1 report is due by 11:59 pm. The grading rubric is posted. There is no other homework due this coming week, although I will open the sedimentation homework (due October 21st).

Dr. Xagorarki will talk about her project detecting COVID-19 in Detroit's wastewater on Wednesday at 7 pm at the ASCE meeting.  Details will be provided. 

And as I mentioned in the participation question, this is supposed to be a very nice weekend. Take some time for you - enjoy making your way through a corn maze, picking apples, getting apple cider and donuts, etc. We all need breaks for our mental and physical health.

Stay well,


Dr. Masten

Week 6 participation question:

I absolutely love fall - the way the setting sun illuminates the multi-colored leaves, the crispness of the air, the scent of apples, and the way the dew on plants shines in the morning sun. I love going apple picking, making apple crisp and pumpkin bread, drinking warm apple cider, and seeing all the fall decorations. 



What are your favorite things of fall? And take time this weekend to spend some enjoying those things! Feel free to share your favorite fall things with your classmates








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  1. MariaOctober 11, 2020 at 8:01 AM

    My favorite thing about fall is the smell of the air. I love that good wet leaf smell!!

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