Heat Load for the ABC House

Following the protocol set forth in the ASHRAE 2021 Fundamentals Handbook, this project modeled the heating load of the house for a design season (winter). This project reports the heating load calculation for a 1960 residential dwelling used as student housing in Swarthmore, PA. The infiltration, window, door, attic, 1st-3rd floor, and basement loads were found to be 5641 kW, 3239 kW, 273 kW, 262 kW, 4073 kW, and 514 kW respectively: resulting in a total design season heat load of 14001 kW. The three biggest contributors to the seasonal heat load were Infiltration, Window, and Wall load (40.3%, 29.1%, and 23.1% of total heat load respectively). Window and insulation replacement were the two most feasible reduction methods, with estimated installation costs of $16800 and ~$2,000 respectively. The following sections of this report include details on the methods used as well as a discussion of the load calculation and suggestion for heat load reduction

Decolonial Water Stories: Intergenerational Pedagogies at an Indigenous Summer Camp in Austin, Texas.

This paper is situated within a growing body of work in early childhood studies that suggests the need to firmly situate early childhood education within current ecological challenges and their unevenly inherited impacts. Through a participatory ethnography of an Indigenous summer program led by Indigenous elders, we engage with the question of how early childhood pedagogical practices might move away from dominant romanticized and developmental approaches to learning about the natural world. Attuning to transdisciplinary decolonial perspectives, we work with stories, Indigenous knowledges, and everyday pedagogical encounters to make visible possibilities for situated decolonial pedagogical engagements with more-thanhuman worlds.Office of the VP for Researc

DO CRESCIMENTO AO DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL: uma visita à economia ambiental

O presente trabalho tem como objeto principal a interação entre economia e meioambiente, mais precisamente, o contexto histórico e a forma como as preocupações com asvariáveis ambientais passaram a ser incorporadas à teoria econômica, vindo a constituir achamada economia ambiental, na perspectiva da construção do conceito de desenvolvimentosustentável, no quadro geral da sociedade capitalista. O objetivo central é delinear o corpoteórico principal da economia ambiental que serve de referencial para a elaboração doconceito de sustentabilidade. Com este propósito, são abordadas as três principais correntes daeconomia ambiental, a saber: a primeira, a economia ambiental neoclássica, com ênfaseeconômico-monetária; a segunda, a economia ecológica, de vertente ambientalista, com foconos geossistemas e capacidade de suporte; a terceira, a economia ambiental marxista, centradana explicitação da segunda contradição fundamental do capitalismo. Evidencia-se, também, aassunção e consolidação do conceito de sustentabilidade como novo paradigma dodesenvolvimento, herdado de memoráveis conferências internacionais sobre o tema, instadaspor crescente mobilização social em defesa do meio ambiente e da qualidade de vida humana.Por fim, como conclusão, reafirma-se o consenso dos principais autores de que odesenvolvimento sustentável, mais na prática do que na teoria, é, ainda, um trade-off nãoresolvido. Para uns, um mito, uma utopia e, para outros ainda, o mais imperioso dos objetivosdo presente século, possível de ser alcançado, não por mérito de uma corrente, apenas, maspelo entendimento de vontades que representem os verdadeiros interesses da humanidade,como hóspede privilegiado do “lar natureza”

Vocational training duration and university graduates’ job performance in Cross River State, Nigeria

This study focused specifically on determining the extent to which duration of vocational training influence university respectively. In achieving this, two research questions were raised and two research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The pop study include a total of 123 baking business and 208 computer business centres in the Area. Out of this population, a proportionate stratified sampling technique was used to select 10% resulting in the selection of 12 baking and 21 computer adopted to select 36 and 63 graduate respectively, resulting in a sample of 99 respondents. A rating scale was used as the instrument for data collection. The instrument was administered by the researchers. The data obtained, were analysed using descriptive statistics, while the hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance using one analysis of variance (One vocational training influenced university graduates job performance in baking and computer business enterprises respectively. Discussions, conclusion and recommendation were all made based on the findings of the study

Effect of strikes on management and planning of educational activities in Nigerian universities

This paper examines the effect of strike on management and planning of educational activities in Nigerian universities. The meaning of strike was defined, and a brief history of strike in tertiary institutions in Nigeria was analyzed including the 2017 strike by ASUU. The causes of strikes were thoroughly explained. The effect of strike on management and planning of universities in Nigeria was also treated. It was concluded that Strike is a problem that has lingered for too long, yet nothing serious has been done about it. That management of strike in Nigeria requires the attention of both the government, educational managers, academic and non-academic staff, as well as other relevant stakeholders. That strike makes planning for universities’ academic and non-academic activities to be very difficult. That everyone must play his or her role by abiding to agreements signed. That educational managers faces the challenge of re-planning educational activities, re-preparing the school calendar, re-assigning old task to new staff and not achieving certain long term goals due to the prolonged unaccomplishment as a result of the strike. Strike is an event that consumes and waste a lot of time which implies that urgent attention is needed to solve this problem. Recommendations were also made based on the observations from this paper.KEYWORDS: Strikes, Management, Planning, Educational, Activities, Universitie