Professor David Ruzic, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Since I teach an online course on energy for HS physics teachers, I have been greatly enjoying a new set of online videos by Prof. Ruzic introducing energy engineering, physics, and the associated economics to freshman non-physics majors at UIUC. These 5- to 30-min engaging videos use simple algebra, sketches, and charts to introduce basic energy ideas and explore their cost effectiveness and current and near-future deployment in a very friendly stand-and-deliver didactic style. The videos are mainly Ruzic sketching at a lightboard (see Nov. 2019 TPT article by Hay and Wiren to construct your own) with semi-transparent web and PowerPoint graphic overlays, and are aimed at freshman engineers and technical folk often ending with the punchline “And that’s what you need to know about _____.”...
