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Friday, August 27, 2010

Hello My New Fonville Students!

Howdy Fonville MS 8th Graders of Fall 2010! My name is Nathan Howell (or Mr. Howell as you'll likely call me), and I have been in graduate school for the last 4 years and am starting my 5th. One day I will graduate. Lucky for you I have not so that I can come visit your class every 1-2 weeks to try and make things a little more fun and to show you something about engineering research.

Here is a brief example of one of the activities we do which is water sampling in the bayous around Houston. These shots are all from a day of training that we did with all of the research students in July 2010. Can you figure out what is going on by the pictures?

This week I won't just be telling you about stuff that I do. I also want to know about things that YOU like and stuff that YOU know. So here are two online surveys that I need you to take when we tell you it's time. The passwords will be revealed to you in class.


For survey 2, I'm going to give the top two students a prize!

One more thing, for the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) activity that we are going to be doing in class you may find this simple example for a regular pencil helpful.