Solid Waste Courses on the Internet


The Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin offers two correspondence courses in Solid Waste Management through the Internet. The courses are designed for solid waste professionals, lawyers who have clients in the solid waste industry, and citizens and public officials involved in developing solid waste policies. The two courses, a ten-lesson course on Solid Waste Landfills and an eight-lesson course on Solid Waste Recycling, first appeared in Waste Age Magazine in 1991 and are now available through e-mail or gopher.

These lectures are accessible at no cost. However, those who register for the course and pay the course fee (approximately $120 per course) will receive extended reference lists for each lecture, answers to the homework questions, and a series of fact sheets with more information and checklists on specific topics, as well as two units of continuing education credit.

Lessons average seven pages in length and include lecture notes, general data tables, homework questions and reference lists. While the lessons for the landfill course are more technical, focusing on engineering and design, the recycling course focuses on management and deals with the process of developing a recycling program and adapting it to various communities.

To access these courses by e-mail, send an e-mail message to:

[email protected]

To receive a catalog with table of contents and information about the course, type:

send course recycling catalog

or

send course landfills catalog

To receive a single lesson (for example, lesson one of the recycling course), type:

send course recycling 1

To receive all lessons (which will be sent as individual messages) type:

send course recycling

To get help on Almanac commands, type:

send help

To access these documents using gopher, from the UNIX prompt, type:

% gopher wissago.uwex.edu

Follow the menu path: University of Wisconsin-Extension Information/ UW Engineering Professional Development Independent Study/ Solid Waste Landfill (or) Solid Waste Recycling.

World Wide Web users type the URL: gopher://wissago.uwex.edu/11/uwex/course

For more information regarding this program, contact:

Judy Faber
Dept. of Engineering - Professional Development,
Correspondence Course Office, University of Wisconsin
432 North Lake Street
Madison, WI 53706
Fax: 608-263-3160
Tel: 800-462-0876
E-mail: [email protected]

This article is from the June 1994 issue of
Net Talk

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