Distance education-sources and control of air pollution

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contents of a course in air pollution in terms of major anticipated changes in university priorities that will affect engineering education. The course is intellectually rigorous and designed for students from many fields of engineering. The course relies on material learned in these separate engineering disciplines. Steps to be taken to offer the course via distance education are proposed. The engineering faculty can expect to experience efforts by universities to balance budgets by reducing costs, since there are severe limitations on generating sufficient new revenue. It is important that faculty understand and discuss candidly the ramifications of such efforts.