 Hi, it is my pleasure to welcome you all to EGE 102 course online and this course is completely online and You need to get on with your angel page to see the course listing and When you log on you will see the courses that you are taking on the left side Get to the course that you are interested in First it opens the page with resources where the course announcements will be shown typically and I am just going to review briefly how this course is going to be administered over the semester So most of the material that you need for the course in fact all the material is posted on this web page here and All you need to do is click on this course overview and this gives you an introduction of the course Introduction to basically the objectives and why we are here today The this course is designed to gain basic understanding and appreciation of energy efficiency and also to understand how the Devices that we use in everyday life work and What are the ways in which we can increase the efficiency so that we can save? energy and money and If we save energy, obviously, we are saving the environment because we don't emit the pollutants That typically we would emit so that is basically our course objectives if you will and If we want to look at how it is structured It's basically structured like if you go to the course page home page This is out of angel. It is out of the education institute that we offer this one here So you have the course syllabus here where you can see the details about my office and the telephone number where I can be reached at and And where my office location is etc. All right and You can read all this material here and for this course You do not read need any kind of textbook or anything more all the material that is required is posted on the web page here and If you look at the course overview I mean which I have already described our objectives are listed here and what I expect From you typically it takes about eight to ten hours per week for all the assignments that you have to do and To go through the notes etc. That is posted and that is the typical time requirement and If you look at the course materials required, you do not need anything. It's already posted on the web and Typically a lesson begins on a Sunday and then it ends on a Saturday Which means you have one week to go through the lesson and take the quiz during that week at any time All right, the quiz must be completed on Saturday on Saturday night Typically if it is one week lesson it opens on Sunday and it closes on Saturday There are however, you know three or four lessons that are Two week lessons, which means the quiz opens on a Saturday and Honest on Sunday typically with the lesson and then the quiz will be due the following Saturday, not the immediate Saturday and there are ten lessons ten quizzes, okay, and There are two week lessons in between so total ten lessons are distributed over 14 weeks of classes and There are three mid-term exams in between and also there are six home activities Which are in lieu of basically homework, okay? They are spread out throughout the semester and the grading system is also listed here quizzes are about 20% of your grade mid-term exams are 30% and home activities are 25% of your grade Which is the homework and final exam is 25% of your grade And this is an extra credit that I will be talking about later on This is something that you do not have any control. This is only through message board participation It is like class participation. So this is totally based on how many posts You do over the semester not in the first one week or in the last No week, you know posting five or six and you know suddenly And this is for extraordinary Participation, this is not for normal postings, you know one or two or where is this quiz or I can't see this when will this quiz open or When will this home activity be graded those kinds of questions will not fetch any kind of extra credit You need to actually look for some sort of interesting articles interesting Material that is related to our course elsewhere and provide a summary of those things as a course posting in in the message board and On the message board if you post these things over the semester continuously throughout the semester Then based on the number and based on the quality of these postings I will be assigning the extra credit and not even one email will be entertained about this particular part of it All right These required ones account for about hundred percent. So you can read all this material and And be prepared and the structure if you look at We have talked about the assignments and grading and and also if you look at the Great Distribution you can see this is totally absolute grading if you get ninety three percent You've got an A if you have ninety two point nine percent It is ninety two point nine percent, which is an A minus it they will not be rounded up to a 93 so be careful about that and Course schedule if you look at as I mentioned there are about ten lessons and for each lesson there will be a quiz after one or two lessons your home work or home activity will start and Usually you will be given one week to perform that home activity or homework and Every month you will have a midterm exam Typically, you know first exam is in February second one will be March and third one will be in April or you know the first one will be in September October November the third one. So that's how these are spaced these exams now Let's get to the actual Course policies or technical requirements if you go through those technical requirements You can see here you need, you know a good browser that you can and Firefox or if you are using a Mac Safari or Internet Explorer, but you need to have a math player plug-in you can check that out You know very easily whether you have the required ones or not So that is basically our course requirement and if you look at The All right Most of the material that are required as I said are available on angel and if you go back to the angel calendar it'll list all the due dates etc. For example in spring semester, we are starting classes on the 13th and Lesson one will be assigned and also quiz one will open along with lesson one and First thing that you need to do is read the syllabus thoroughly from top to bottom and then take a quiz on the syllabus note that this quiz will not be Counted for your grade it only unlocks the material course material so that you can proceed with other Lessons and lesson opens on On a Monday here because this class these classes start on Monday and then quiz one Typically would be due on Saturday here Saturday night however It is not due this time For lesson one because still people will be adding and dropping so this quiz instead of being due on the 18th It will be due on the 25th, which is the following Saturday along with Lesson two quiz. So this would be after the drop add deadline So and those who add a little late will not have any extra time They that is how I am sitting here You will have to catch up in these extra time that you have here a couple of days And then still get up to speed here and finish lesson One and two by the 25th or by the end of second week And the third week you have lesson three starting and also the home activity, which is your homework It is assigned on the Sunday and it will be due on the following Saturday So the following Saturday happens to be first of February So it is due on first of February here. Okay home activity and also lesson three quiz and Exam one which will be assigned Depending on the section in which you are in if you are off campus In other words, if you are world campus student or other campus students It'll start it will open on Thursday and it will end on Saturday Saturday night If you are on campus taking online courses, then The entire week will be there, but there are certain slots. You will have to take the exam under controlled atmosphere in E-testing center and you will have to sign up for a day that is suitable for you And you need to take the exam on campus in that testing environment so Every week you will have to do the lessons once in a week or two You will have a homework assignment and once in three weeks or four weeks. You may have an in midterm exam That's how it goes on and on until the entire course content is finished And if you need to communicate with me, this is the best way to communicate Which is you send an email mark to all faculty Mark to all faculty here and Through angel only alright through angel only if you click on here It'll say no all course faculty and you can you can click here and say okay and send a message to all faculty that's how all emails will be looked at and You can always look at your grades and things like that on these on the on this tab and Most of the material that you need will be available here on this On this angel and you can check your syllabus again here too again syllabus course requirements, etc That we have gone through if you have any questions or anything Please do not hesitate to even call me my cell phone is listed if you do not get an email back From either me or tas there will not be any other instructors I am the instructor and there may be an email message from tas sometime the replies If you do not get a reply in please do not hesitate to contact me either by telephone My cell phone number is posted and or you can stop by my office Which is 124 be hostile building and even if you are taking course online You have access to my office and office hours, so they are listed there Please do not hesitate to call me or talk to me and I wish you all good luck and Get started with the course