Hello everybody! Today I'm here for a brief review of Echo Dot, a third-generation smart speaker by Amazon. If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browsing history, Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it, to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. A third-generation smart speaker by Amazon. It features an integrated voice assistant Alexa, improved design and better speaker for richer and louder sound. You can also be coupled with one more Echo Dot 3 device to ensure a stereo sound. In today's video, I will show you all of these things. Compared with the previous generation Echo Dot 3 delivers 70% louder sound, which makes the voice assistant respond more clearly. Just as before, additional wireless or wired speakers using 3.5 mm audio cable are recommended for listening to music. Alexa voice assistant can hear you from any place in the room thanks to being equipped with four highly sensitive microphones. Alexa can also help you listen to music, make calls and send messages. Just ask and Alexa will inform you on the latest news, currency reads, weather focus and many other things. This device has one more useful function. It can help you voice control all compatible equipment of a smart home. For example, you can turn on the light or make coffee without having to leave your comfortable bed. The speaker itself looks quite attractive, a cylinder-shaped body with rounded edges made in fabric design. The top panel retains the four control buttons and the LED ring just as in the previous generation models. There are two volume buttons, the action button that starts Alexa and the microphone mute button. The LED ring lights up when you say Alexa and does the signal for you that the device is waiting for your commands. At the back, there are two connectors – a proprietary power socket and a conventional 3.5 mm audio socket for connecting additional external speakers. Alternatively, you can connect extra speakers by Bluetooth. Alright, let's turn it on and see how it works. Stick the power cable into the corresponding connector and plug the other end of the cable into the wall socket. When the speaker is turned on for the first time, it will inform you that an application has to be downloaded to your smartphone. This device is ready for setup. Just install the Alexa app and follow the instructions. By the way, here is an important peculiarity that may seem a disadvantage to some users. Alexa speaks English, Japanese, French and German. Unfortunately, other languages are not supported at the moment. The Alexa app can be downloaded from the Google Play Market. Linking the speaker to the smartphone is easy. When you start the app for the first time, give the login and password to your Amazon account. Only after that, you can get into the menu and set a link between the speaker and your phone. Plug the Echo devices power cable into the wall socket. The light ring will turn blue at first and then change into orange. When in the Alexa app, go to the tab Devices, tap the plus icon and choose Amazon Echo Dot and tap on your model. Connect the Echo device to a Wi-Fi network by following instructions from the application. That's all. Now you can try talking to Alexa. Echo Dot 3 may become the central element to control your smart home system with its built-in voice assistant, Amazon Alexa. This gadget will help you control the climate in your room by adjusting the thermostats and air conditioning units, managed smart lamps and sockets, television and audio systems. You can even tell it to open the garage door while you're putting your shoes on in the corridor. The smart speaker supports integration of Wi-Fi devices produced by Wink, Vivint, Philips and many other brands. You can find a list of all devices compatible with its remote control function in the Amazon official website. You will find the link in the description. With the help of this voice assistant, which you can activate by just saying Alexa, Amazon or Echo, you can even create, shop and list or list of tasks to be done. The device can also access your Google Calendar. It can play music from such services as Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn or Spotify, and when you connect a smartphone to the smart speaker, Apple Music or Google Play Music become available as well. Alexa can even read you an audiobook. The Echo Dot 3 can interact with the owner using voice commands, though in a somewhat limited format. It's hardly able to keep the ball rolling in a conversation, but it does pretty well in easy tasks like getting to know the weather forecast or locating traffic jams.  It should be noted that Echo Dot 3 uses Wikipedia as its primary source of information, so it is truly smart, anyway. On top of all that, there is one more feature to boast – cloud-based control. All your voice requests are processed in Amazon servers, and that means a number of advantages to the end user. First of all, third-party companies can integrate with Echo Dot seamlessly, without any firmware updates needed. Thanks to Alexa SkillsKit, more and more services from various companies and developers are becoming available to smart speaker owners. Secondly, the speaker is learning to understand you all the time, with voice samples analyzed thoroughly, and in a few weeks the gadget will be able to seize your meaning at once. And in the third place, when you replace the smart speaker, for example, when you decide to change from Dot to Amazon Tap, you don't need to train it again, thanks to the same cloud service. I'd like to know that Echo Dot 3 can also operate in tandem with one more gadget of the same model, or even with a few of them. For example, you can place them in several rooms, or use them as a stereo system. To do it, go to Devices and tap on the plus button. First add stereo pair, subwoofer, or add multi-room music speaker for using the speakers in different rooms. Continue, tick the other speaker and tap Next. Then decide which speaker should be left and right, and tap Next. Now you will have to wait until the process of connecting speakers is over. Here the stereo system of two speakers is ready to use. If the speakers are in different rooms, you can enable broadcasting your voice from one room to another by just by asking Alexa about it. Alexa, drop into the briefing. Alexa, drop into the briefing. Alexa, drop into the briefing. Echo Dot 3 can also make calls to other people who use Echo devices or the Amazon Alexa application. All right, now let's see how it works in practice. Alexa, how are you? I'm grilly hood, oops, I meant to say really good, guess I've been saying too many tongue twisters. Alexa, what do you love?  His voice is amazing, and I've been told my voice is my best asset, and we're both A-list actors. Well, at least my name starts with an A, it's a match made in heaven, or at least in the cloud. Alexa, Wikipedia, Great Britain. Here's the Wikipedia article on Great Britain. Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe, with an area of 209,331 square kilometers. It is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in the world. In 2011, Great Britain had a population of about 61 million people, making it the world's most populous island. As I said before, you can use the speaker to turn off the light. Alexa, turn off the light. Sorry, I didn't find a device named Light. As you heard, Alexa couldn't find any compatible devices because there are no small clamps in my room. You can use the voice assistant to listen to your favorite radio station. Alexa, play KSFM. Getting one of three five KSFM stations from I've Hardly Needed. Alexa, stop. Listen to the news. Alexa, what news in the world? In NPR News. I'm from NPR News in Washington, I live in Marigold. Stop. Find out what the weather is like. Alexa, what is the weather in Kyiv? Right now, in Kyiv, Ukraine, it's 45 degrees Fahrenheit with clear skies and sun. Today's forecast has lots of clouds with a hot stop. Make calls, send messages and hear them. The user whom you want to call should have an Amazon account and have the same smart speaker model as you do. Some shops selling the new generation of Amazon Echo Dot also offer buying a remote control unit for this device. Smart light bulbs and Amazon smart plug socket. Now let's analyze all advantages and disadvantages of this speaker. Despite its laconic appearance and small size format, the device comes equipped with the latest wireless interfaces such as Bluetooth 4 and dual-band Wi-Fi 802 11AC. Omnidirectional microphones supporting active noise reduction are really perfect. Rest assured, the speaker will hear and recognize your voice even while there is some music playing in or television working in the background. All processes are brought to life by ARAM, a processor Cortex-A8 combined with 256 megabytes RAM and 4 gigabytes of flash memory. Not to impress you, right? Okay, but for a device that sells under $50, it is quite acceptable and such hardware doesn't affect its performance. The speaker never seems to be too sluggish. Echo Dot doesn't have a built-in battery and is only powered from the wall socket. On the one hand, it doesn't really matter as it's a stationary device, but on the other hand, there is a mobility issue. Moreover, naturally, location of the smart speaker will depend on whether you have a vacant wall socket nearby. Some people find it a serious disadvantage that speech samples are stored in Amazon servers. Although the company promises they are used only for improved voice recognition, some mistrustful people may have a hard time staying in one room with Alexa-running devices. Localization is another controversial point. At the moment, you can talk to the voice assistant only in English, German and Japanese, and Amazon services still have to be developed in some regions of our planet. As an acceptable option, Echo Dot can be used as a tool in learning foreign languages. Have you ever dreamt of learning a bit of Japanese? There is your personal assistant and a good companion in conversation. To sum it all up, we can say that for regions like Eastern Europe, Amazon speakers are more of an entertainment gadget, but with a good potential for growth. It seems so likely to have a similar device in every home within some five years or so. Meanwhile, you can use Echo Dot 3 today to get yourselves ready for technologies of tomorrow and to try your hand at living in the future. However, as long as you have a good command of English, there is nothing to stop you from choosing Echo Dot as a basic controller for a smart home system or a personal assistant, equally good at informing you on the weather forecast and reminding of important plans for tomorrow. But many other users have to wait a bit until Alexa learns more languages and Amazon services become truly available all over the world. And that is all for now. I hope this video was interesting for you. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Make comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching and good luck.


We are talking about the jet engines, jet engines for aircraft, today we will be talking about the basic version of the jet engines that are used for aircraft. This is the kind of engine that of course, first came into being for flying aircraft and this is of course, the simplest of all the jet engines. The various variants that has been talked about a little in one or two lectures in the past would be dealt with later on in the course of this lectures, but today we will talk about only the basic version of the jet engine that is used even today for flying of aircraft. It is simple in the form of a mechanical engine, it is also simple or simpler as a thermodynamic entity, it is also a simpler version in terms of aerodynamic machines. As we have talked before, a typical jet engine is of course, a mechanical machine, it is of course, a thermodynamic entity and it contains lot of components which are fundamentally aerodynamic machines. As I mentioned, we will be talking about all those facets of a jet engine as we go along in this lecture series, but let us take a quick look at what a basic jet engine contains, what it is composed of and how we can measure the performance of such a basic jet engine in terms of the basic performance parameters which we talked about in the last class. So, today we will talk about these basic jet engines which are used for flying aircraft. Now, you see a basic jet engine that we know of is composed of a number of components. These components have been introduced to you, we will look at these components again and then try to figure out how the performance of an engine as a whole can be derived from all these components put together into a jet engine. If we look at a basic jet engine, we shall see that it has components which to begin with are compressors. In this particular diagram, you would see a component of compressor which is generally called axial compressor. We will see in the next picture a diagram of a centrifugal compressor followed by axial compressor. There is a combustion chamber, then there is a turbine and then the flow exits through the nozzle. Now, what happens is in a typical jet engine, each of these components have a function. These functions are also thermodynamically laid out in a cycle and each of those components of the cycle as you would see in lectures which would be followed very soon that each of these components actually perform a certain thermodynamic function. Now, here in this particular kind of jet engine, these happen in a sequential manner. For example, in a IC engine or a piston engine which is also some kind of a heat engine, they often happen simultaneously. However, here they happen in a spaced out manner. So, in a axial compressor or a compressor, the compression is performed followed by the compressor. The flow or the working medium goes into different space where the combustion is performed. Then it moves on to another space where the turbine extracts work essentially to run the compressor and then after turbine has done its work, the working medium, now a gas or hot gas is exhausted through a nozzle. So, the various components that comprise a jet engine are spaced out in the space of an entire jet aircraft engine as isolated components and the various incidents that we talked about happen in a sequential manner one after another. So, the flow comes in as we see here in this arrow, flow comes in from the front, there would be an intake which varies from one kind of aircraft to another. Same engine actually mounted on different aircraft may have different kind of intake, but those intakes we will be talking about later on in the course of this lecture series. So, the flow comes in through this intake system and gets into the compressor and it gets compressed and then after the compression process, it goes into the combustion chamber. Normally between the compressor and the combustion chamber as you would see here in the upper diagram, there is a small duct which is normally used to slow down the flow substantially, essentially to aid the combustion process and then once the combustion has been performed, that means the fuel has been burned and the air has been raised to a very high temperature, that high temperature and compressed air is then released to the turbine. Now, again you will see there is a small duct over here which is the releasing duct from the combustion chamber to the turbine and once it is released to the turbine, the turbine essentially extracts work out of this high energy gas which has high pressure and high temperature, both in the form of essentially potential energy. So, this potential energy is then extracted in the form of mechanical work which then this turbine essentially uses to run the compressor through the shaft. So, in this particular basic engine, we have a single shaft and this single shaft runs the entire compressor that is shown over here and as we see here, it has a series of compressors really speaking. We will be talking about this series of compressors as we go along more and more. So, this turbine runs this entire compressor and having done its job releases the high energy gas. It still has very high energy, very high pressure and very high temperature. It releases that gas through this nozzle and the nozzle is appropriately shaped for every particular engine. It needs a particular shape and it is released through that nozzle into the atmosphere through an exhaust system whereby the exhaust velocity is very high, certainly much higher than the intake velocity with which it came in and of course, this change of velocity manifests itself in the form of production of thrust. Now, this is a simple basic jet engine that has been in existence for little more than 50 years used for flying aircraft. Of course, similar kind of engines, we do not call them jet engines, similar kind of basic engine comprising of compressor, combustion chamber and turbine have been evolved to create power for land based gas turbine engines. They are often much bigger, produce much more power and of course, we do not call them jet engines. Jet engine is typical of aircraft variety, which produces a jet for production of thrust. Let us take a look at another variant of this single shaft or often as it is called single spool basic turbojet engine in which for a compressor you have a centrifugal compressor. Now, as you can see it looks quite different from the earlier one. In the earlier version, you had a series of compressors, they are actually individual compressor units lined up one after another, literally lined up in a sequential manner and the compression process happens one after another in a sequential manner, so that the compression is built up over a number of compressors literally. Now, in a centrifugal compressor, it produces compression in one go, fairly high amount of compression can be achieved through a centrifugal compressor and then this is delivered to the combustion chamber, where again you have fuel injection, you have burning of fuel which raises again the temperature of this gas which of course, has already been compressed to high pressure. So, again this high pressure and high temperature gas released to the turbine and this turbine extracts work to run this compressor and releases the high energy gas into the jet exhaust for creating the high velocity jet. So, the process of creating a jet exhaust is very similar whether you have a axial compression process or whether you have a centrifugal compressor to do the compression process. We shall see later on the pros and cons of axial and centrifugal compressor, where and how they are used. At this moment, I can probably tell you that the first jet engine that appeared actually had a centrifugal compressor, because centrifugal method of compressing was already very well understood and the technology of that was very well known. The axial compressor process actually developed a little later, however most of the engines today are axial compressors. Now let us take a look at another version of jet engine, slightly beyond the basic jet engine in which a long reheat pipe has been added and this reheat pipe or a jet pipe actually contains what is can be called a reheat zone in which we have a number of flame holders. Now these flame holders are also there actually inside the combustion chamber, we do not see them in this particular diagram, but there are certain versions of flame holder normally used in any combustion chamber. Now here, the entire exhaust or jet pipe here is used for the combustion process and in this combustion process, we have large flame holders in which the fuel is injected and the gas is again raised to high temperature. Now let us start from the beginning all over again and see how this is actually introduced into a basic engine and converted to what we can call a reheat engine or more popularly known as after burning engine. The cold air comes in into the compression process and then it goes into the combustion chamber and again we have a turbine which extracts work essentially to run the compressor with the help of a single shaft and this is a mechanical loop between turbine and compressor as we have talked about before. And once the turbine has done its work, this high energy gas is released into this long jet pipe. Now this long jet pipe is then used to raise the gas temperature to even higher level. Now one of the advantages of this is we shall talk about these things more in detail later on. Now one of the advantages of introducing a reheat here or the primary reason for introducing the reheat here is you do not have any turbine anymore. Now since you do not have a turbine, the temperature of the reheat or introduced by the reheat can be much higher than what you can do through a normal combustion process because there the temperature that you can raise it to is somewhat limited by the capacity of the turbine blades or turbine blade material to withstand high temperature. Now since these are made of metal alloys, there is certain limit to which the temperatures can be raised to at the turbine inlet. So turbine inlet temperature is quite often a limiting factor in turbojet engine design. Once you have a reheat and there is no turbine afterwards that limit is kind of gone and you can indeed if you want reheat the gas either to same temperature or to even higher temperature depending on your engine design. And once you do that, that high energy gas is now exhausted through the jet pipe into the exhaust nozzle and you can create a high velocity jet. Now let us look at this jet pipe a little more. What you are doing here is you are raising the temperature to very high values all over again. Now since the gas temperature is going to be very high and you create a process through flame holders and other process let us say very cleverly so that you have uniform temperature profile a little later after this reheat zone and this temperature is quite high. So what you need to do is you need to create a situation here where the jet pipe or the outer shell of the jet pipe is protected from this very high temperature inside. So what you have here this undulation that you see over here are essentially liners that are created to protect this body of the engine from high velocity jet. So what happens is this gas which is coming from the turbine a little bit of it goes into this liners those are also very hot gases anyway but the body of the jet pipe is indeed designed to withstand those kind of hot gases but not the very high temperature now being produced through reheat. So the liners essentially contain inside them the hot gases that are coming from the turbine and creates a small safety zone for the outer shell of the jet engine or the jet pipe from very high temperature that is being created inside the reheat zone and where as I mentioned temperatures could indeed be higher than what you had earlier. And as a result of which these liners are integral part of the reheat or after burning engines essentially for protection of the jet engine body. Now what happens these reheat flow goes into the nozzle now what I have written here is a C D nozzle which is abbreviation for convergent divergent nozzle. So what you can see here we have a convergent part of the nozzle and then we have divergent part of the nozzle. Now of course we will be talking the aerodynamics and gas dynamics of these nozzle systems in much more detail later on in our nozzle chapter and a little bit of that would be done much before that in your thermodynamic chapter in terms of the aerothermodynamics of the flow through the nozzles but at this moment let us just look at that we have a convergent divergent nozzle following a reheat zone or a after burning zone. Now normally you would see that most after burning engines or other I would say all after burning engines would almost necessarily have a C D nozzle a convergent divergent nozzle. Now one of the reasons you have reheat is to raise that temperature or the energy of the gas to high values and then why do you raise the energy to high values so that you can indeed get a high velocity jet through the nozzle. Now when you try to do that when you try to create a high velocity jet through this nozzle through this nozzle system which is let us say a C D nozzle the high velocity jet means that the flow through this nozzle would convert high potential energy at the station in jet pipe to high kinetic energy. So there is a huge potential energy drop through this nozzle so potential energy both in terms of pressure and temperature are dropped through this nozzle and this nozzle system now is converting high potential energy to high kinetic energy. Now high potential energy has been created partly by creating the high temperature gas by the help of a reheat now where does the high pressure come from. Now this simply means that if we are going to have a reheat engine or an after burning engine it is necessary that we have a C D nozzle and if the C D nozzle is going to convert all the potential energy or a good part of the potential energy to high velocity jet. The pressure available here also should be very high that means the compression process that we have right in the beginning of this jet kind of this kind of jet engine should raise the pressure to such high values that even after turbine has extracted some of its pressure for doing work it would still retain a high pressure come through this reheat zone and this high pressure and now high temperature gas can be released through the C D nozzle to create high velocity jet. You see if you do not do that if you do not do that the pressure over here is likely to go below the atmospheric pressure and in which case you are not going to have a jet flow coming out of this nozzle. So it is necessary that you take care of the pressure that is available at the exit phase of the nozzle a priori well before in your design of this jet engine because when you are raising the temperature it is necessary that it already has a high pressure available with it only then you can deploy a C D nozzle to create a high velocity jet only high pressure or only high temperature would not do. Let us look at it logically supposing you have a C D nozzle and you do not have a reheat zone you just have high pressure and release it through the C D nozzle. What will happen is now that you have pressure the flow will accelerate to high a velocity but the temperature at the exit phase now will be very low because temperature is a potential energy much of it has been converted to kinetic energy and as a result the temperature at the exit phase will be so low that the nozzle or the flow through the nozzle at towards its exit will face frozen situation or freezing situation that means some of the combustion products coming through the combustion chamber will now get frozen and get stuck into the combustion chamber nozzles. So both ways if you are going to have a C D nozzle it is necessary that you have a process by which you can create high pressure and a separate process by which you can create high temperature so that the C D nozzle can be effectively used to create high velocity jet without creating a problem of pressure reversal or frozen combustion products in the nozzle phase. These are some of the fundamental issues that a jet engine designer would have to contend with at the time of creating this jet engine and in case of a reheat engine you see we need to take care of a number of issues before you can say you have a reheat engine that can create high velocity jet. Now this C D nozzle just a word about it is typically used to create jet which is supersonic will be of course talking about it in great detail later on now this jet is supersonic jet which is which means that typically you are creating velocity which is very high of course you need to create velocity that is very high to create more of thrust. So more velocity you create more thrust you are likely to create on the other hand higher this velocity is going to be higher is the exhaust gas energy with which it is going out which means typically that the waste energy that we have talked about in the last class is also going to be of a higher order. So a typical heat reheat engine or after burning engine would invariably have very high waste energy intrinsically associated with it is performance and which of course also means that it is efficiency of operation is going to be somewhat on the lower side. Now this you achieve essentially by creating more thrust you are creating more thrust deliberately by essentially accepting or sacrificing certain amount of efficiency of operation efficiency of course means fuel efficiency. So you are sacrificing fuel efficiency of the engine because you desperately need some thrust for your operation of the engine and for operation of the aircraft typically this kind of engine is used in military aircraft where you need thrust desperately whether you are running away from the enemy or whether you are pursuing the enemy typically in situations where certain amount of fast acceleration of the aircraft is desperately required in those situations fuel efficiency of is of secondary importance the more important thing is creating high thrust so that the aircraft can accelerate or fly much faster at that particular operating point. This is a dire necessity so reheat engines are typically deployed in most of the military engines and most of the typical passenger or transport aircrafts are unlikely to have after burning or reheat engines because as you see they are fundamentally of lower fuel efficiency in a passenger or transport aircraft fuel efficiency is of primary importance and hence that cannot be sacrificed. So this kind of engine is typically used in military aircraft. Let us just summarize some of these points that we have been talking about by reheating the engine it is intended to increase the exit velocity V e essentially by employing a convergent divergent nozzle and as I just mentioned it is capable of producing supersonic exit velocity. Now increased velocity would decrease P e and this is what the danger is that it could take it below the atmospheric pressure P a and which means at the exit phase it would have a negative balance of pressure the pressure thrust that we have talked about would become actually negative and this is not definitely a very desired situation. So it is necessary that you take care of this by creating more compression a priori before it is released through the convergent divergent nozzle and hence you require a larger compressor. Now the larger compressor means that in axial compressor situation it means you probably would need to have more compressors lined up typically most of the modern jet engines have axial compressors. So larger compressor would essentially mean you have more compressor units to be lined up one after another in a sequential manner to create more compressor compression before it goes into the combustion chamber. Now to run a larger compressor you would probably need a stronger or a larger turbine because they go together and hence this turbine compressor loop or the combination would probably become a little larger than a very basic jet engine that we have talked about earlier and as a result of this we have a slightly larger compressor turbine combination in a typical reheat or after burning engine only then you have a high potential energy going into the exhaust nozzle for creating high velocity jet. So this is a typical jet engine meant for as I mentioned military aircraft fighter aircrafts and these jet engines now as you can see would need to be designed right from the beginning for that kind of purpose. It would have to have a larger compressor which means it may have to have a little larger turbine and then of course it would have to have a reheat and that jet pipe. So the entire jet engine would need to be configured and designed right from the beginning for the purpose of a reheat or a after burning engine. So the basic jet engine without reheat or after burning that we talked about earlier is designed differently it is a simple basic jet engine. The moment you add a reheat the entire engine would have to be somewhat reconfigured so that you get full benefit of the CD nozzle which you would like to deploy towards the end to get maximum benefit in terms of thrust production because that is your primary aim in creating the reheat zone. Let us take a look at quick look at this diagram in which a real jet engine has been captured in a cut out picture. Now what you can see here is it has compressors of nine stages and of course compression occurs in two steps first row of compressors are done over here and then there is a very small bypass. Now this is a jet engine which we call a very low bypass turbofan or one may even call it a row bypass turbojet one way or the other you are correct and then this low bypass engine then creates a bypass which goes through this entire process and then one can use this bypass which is actually cold air relatively much colder air to feed into the liners which we talked about earlier which is used around the entire jet pipe and now you can see the bypass air has a very good utility value that it goes into the liners for creating a very cold you know safety zone for the jet pipe and then of course you have the basic core flow coming through the next six stages of a compressor goes into the combustion chamber and goes into the turbines. Now that we have compressors in two groups or what we will be calling more and more as two spools you would need to have turbines also in two spools. So, that you have two loops there one which we call the HP loop another which we will call the LP loop and then of course after that it goes into this hot zone you know shown here as red zone which is where you have the reheat of the after burning and then you have these liners all around it to protect the outer shell of the engine from this very hot gases and then you have a very complicated CD nozzle this particular engine has what is known as vector thrust variable geometry CD nozzle we will be talking about some of these issues later on in much greater detail and these are the modern versions of the deployment of CD nozzle in which you can you not only get a high velocity supersonic jet, but you have control over the direction in which the supersonic jet is released. So, that the thrust generation can be controlled both in magnitude as well as in direction as we have talked about before thrust is a force which is a vector and it has a magnitude and direction and hence it is called vector thrust and this vector thrust variable geometry nozzle allows you to vary the vector of the thrust creation. We will be talking about these things in much greater detail later on in the nozzle chapter. So, this is what a modern slightly low bypass turbofan engine one may call it looks like in which you have a long jet pipe in which the after burning is done and then you have a very complicated modern CD nozzle through which high velocity jet is created in a controlled manner such that you get thrust in a very controlled manner in modern jet aircraft. Let us take a look at now the parameters that we have talked about in the last class. The basic turbojet engine for example, creates momentum thrust primarily. For the moment let us say we will ignore the pressure thrust assuming at least for the moment that the pressure reached at the exit phase is equal to the atmospheric pressure and hence we just at the moment ignore the pressure thrust component and we have only the momentum thrust and then this momentum thrust now has two components one which is of course, the exhaust reaction or what we had called the gross thrust. Now, what we see here it has two mass flows the air mass flow which has come into the engine through the intake system and the fuel mass flow which has been injected into the engine into the combustion chamber and two of them together make up the high energy gas that is going out and that creates the reaction force created by the nozzle let us say and then the second term you have the drag what we would normally called a ram drag at the intake itself which is composed of the mass flow that is coming inside the engine multiplied by of course, the velocity with which it is coming in. Now, as you can see here these components also are dependent on the parameters that we have defined in the last class the exhaust velocity V e is dependent on the energy conversion efficiency. So, how much V e is created which is created for which is used for production of thrust is dependent on the efficiency with which this V e is created inside the engine and of course, the V e is also dependent on the propulsive efficiency of the engine. So, these two efficiencies we have defined in the last class and these two efficiencies essentially decide independently and together what the velocity of the exit flow is going to be and then we get the gross thrust and of course, the net thrust. So, V e which is so responsible for creation of the thrust and we take a lot of trouble to create that V e are dependent on the two efficiencies that we talked about and which means that we have to create engines which are of high efficiency. So, that you can get high V e and then you get high thrust. So, these are the basic parameters which you have to keep an eye on when you are designing an engine when you are putting together various components of compressor, combustion chamber, turbine, nozzle, etcetera because the V e which here simply gives you that it gives you thrust. Now, where does the V e come from? It comes from various processes that are going on inside the jet aircraft engine and inside the jet engine we have processes by which these V e is finally created. These processes which are indeed aerothermodynamic processes we are going to talk about those aerothermodynamics in great detail later on, but those aerothermodynamic processes have efficiencies and these efficiencies finally decide what the value of V e is going to be. So, unless you keep an eye on the efficiency right at the time of creating this engines your V e is not going to be very good or very high and hence your thrust creation is not going to be very high or you might get good thrust at a very rather low efficiency which means you would have to pump in more fuel to get a good thrust which means your S F C is going to be high. So, these are the various facets which the engine creator would have to look into while creating the engine. So, we you have pros and cons of various parameter the pushes and pulls of various parameters and these efficiency values invariably show up either in the form of V e or in the form of S F C. Now, let us take a look at the thrust that is created in a typical reheat engine. The reheat engine creates a thrust that is now composed of fuel burnt twice once in the combustion chamber and then again in the reheat zone. So, you have two rounds of fuel now added to the basic air that had come in and that of course goes into create your gross thrust multiplied by of course, the exhaust velocity V e which as we have just seen is likely to be supersonic. Now, this V e is again dependent on the efficiency of energy conversion and the propulsive efficiency that we have talked about. So, unless the fuel and this is being burnt twice now once in combustion chamber once in the reheat zone unless the fuel is burnt efficiently and then the energy is converted efficiently to V e. The thrust production will not be efficient and as I mentioned either it will show up in the form of lower thrust or it will show up in the form of higher S F C and this is something which an engine creator or designer would have to bother about right in the beginning while putting together all the components of a jet engine. The overall efficiencies that we had talked about we can take a quick look at them again and now we have the overall efficiency which is of a basic jet engine multiplied by the propulsive efficiency multiplied by the energy efficiency and this is something which we had defined before. If we simply you know reconfigure that efficiency for reheat purposes we shall see here that we have two kinds of mass flows over here whole thing multiplied by the fuel that is pumped in and the fuel is pumped in also twice once in the combustion chamber once in the reheat zone and then of course you have two efficiencies here one the propulsive efficiency of the after burning engine and then the energy conversion of this after burning engine. So, the two efficiencies would now be operative in a slightly different manner you have a big jet pipe over there you have a C D nozzle and they would have to operate very efficiently and those efficiencies would come in into these efficiency parameters that we are talking about and all of it together will show up as efficiency of thrust production. If the efficiency of thrust production is not high and if you desperately need thrust you have to pump in more fuel to get thrust which you desperately require let us say in which case it will show up in the SFC definition that is shown over here. So, this efficiency if SFC definition now shows which one we have talked about before that if you just have a combustion chamber in a basic jet engine SFC is defined in a very simple manner the moment you have reheat engine you have two rounds of fuel burning once in the combustion chamber and again in the reheat zone and obviously the SFC is going to go up. Now, you are hopefully creating more thrust now through this reheat. So, even though your fuel consumption is going to be almost double your thrust production is going to be pretty high if not double and hence your SFC is going to be little on the higher side, but hopefully not exactly double. So, you are creating high thrust most probably at the expense of a high SFC if you have a lower efficiency of either energy efficiency or propulsive efficiency your SFC is going to go up hence you would be constrained to create thrust at the expense of more fuel burnt or your thrust production is going to go down. These are the various pushes and pulls of the operation of a typical jet engine and this is what an engine creator would have to look into right in the beginning. These are the fundamental parameters that we introduced in the last class and as you can see now a basic jet engine just converted to a simple reheat or after burning engine introduces a number of complications or complexities into the operation of the jet engine and these operations will have to be taken into account right in the process of designing or creating these jet engines. As we go along we shall be talking about more and more complex engines and hence the complexity of these parameters would indeed become more and more involved in the process of our various versions of jet aircraft engines that we will be talking about in the course of this lecture series. Hence we can summarize by saying that the jet engines with reheat or after burning it is expected that the fuel consumption would be high and the SFC would show up as high value. In such a situation it is normally expected that the sheer thrust requirement at that particular moment of operation outweighs the high SFC you are sacrificing the fuel consumption for immediate requirement of thrust production. Obviously you would probably not like to have this kind of operation happening throughout the entire jet engine operation throughout the flight because your fuel consumption is going to be very high in such a case and then you would need to carry that kind of fuel with you in your aircraft. So, you would need to carry that fuel in your aircraft body this is not a very acceptable situation for the aircraft designer he would definitely object to it. Hence quite often most of the engines that have reheat capability do not operate with reheat all the time they operate with reheat under certain operating conditions when you desperately require high thrust at many other operating conditions of the flight they operate simply without operating the reheat that means only with one combustion chamber and allow the CD nozzle to create thrust whatever that is required for flying the aircraft under normal flight conditions in which it is expected that your thrust requirement is not desperately high you do not require very high thrust for normal flying around for normal loitering around or for a normal climb or cruise you do not require very high thrust a normal good thrust is often sufficient and hence a reheat engine does not mean that you have reheat operational all the time during the flight it is used only during certain flight conditions in which you really badly require high thrust. So, the SFC requirement SFC constrained often means that most of the modern reheat engines operate with reheat only under certain operating conditions of the flight and not under all operating conditions of the flight because as I mentioned otherwise you would need to carry a lot of fuel in your aircraft body in which case the aircraft would have to be very large and that is not accepted for aircraft design purposes. So, let us take a look at some of the performance features of these kinds of engines which summarize the way these engines actually show up finally, as you can see here in terms of propulsive efficiency the efficiency of thrust creation finally, as you can as we have talked about before and as you can see here the propulsive efficiency is highest for the turboprop in the low flight zones. This graph is shown in terms of miles per hour obviously, you know we have used an American data bank to create this hence we have the miles per hour the Mach number one is approximately shown over here. So, the turboprop engine reaches a peak of propulsive efficiency and then it goes down very fast. We have talked about a little before, but we will be talking about these constraints more and more that turboprop engines do not have very high efficiencies and it go down very fast, but somewhere over there we have these turbo fans. Now, the high bypass turbo fans which take over from the turboprops take it to reasonably good propulsive efficiencies and then when it comes pretty close to Mach 1 they also start going down in efficiency and close to Mach 1 their efficiencies become slowly uncompetitive compared to let us say the low bypass ratio turbojet or one may call them turbofan engines. Now, these ones what happens is they carry on the good propulsive efficiency beyond the Mach 1 flight speed and beyond Mach 1 they continue to have good efficiency into supersonic speeds and maintain that reasonably good efficiency, but start going down a little later as they approach Mach 2 flight speed and that is when the pure turbojet start coming up in their propulsive efficiency and somewhere near Mach 2 the pure turbojet engine start becoming more and more competitive as opposed to the various versions of turbofan engine that we have talked about. So, at very high supersonic Mach numbers Mach 2 and beyond he would probably be looking at a basic reheat turbojet engine as your propulsive device below that between Mach 1 and Mach 2 he would probably be looking at very low bypass turbojet or turbofan whatever you call it jet engine as your propulsive device below Mach 1 he would be looking at turbofan engines specially between Mach 0.6 or 0.65 to near about 0.8 or 0.85 he would be looking at various versions of turbofan engines and we will be talking about those turbofan engines in more and more detail later on. Below Mach 0.6 flight speed he would probably be better off if you are deploying a turbo prop engine because they have the highest propulsive efficiency which of course shows up in terms of fuel efficiency. So, these are roughly the Mach number zones in which various kinds of jet engines are deployed in modern aircraft. At the very lowest level you would still have likely to have turbo prop engines in between the Mach 0.8 or 0.85 flight speeds and that is where most of the modern passenger aircraft are flying today around Mach 0.85 and that is where you have the turbofan engines. The various versions of turbofan engines that we will be talking about more and more in the coming lectures, but beyond Mach 1 typically you would be looking for engines that would be used for military applications and you would be looking at engines that use the bypass a little to get some benefit of the SFC, but beyond Mach 2 he would be constrained to use pure jet engines or turbo jet engines for your thrust creation. So, these are the rough break up over which you have your jet engine applications in the modern aircraft. So, the thrust of a bypass engine can be written down in terms of various components of the jet engine that we had looked at. Gross thrust created in terms of the V e multiplied by the fuel burnt and the air that is come in and this is of course in terms of your hot jet and then you of course you have the cold jet which often is used in bypass engines where you may have a cold bypass jet and cold bypass thrust and this creates what is often known as cold thrust and you get a certain amount of cold thrust that is associated with the thrust creation and hence your SFC of course shows up in terms of total fuel that is burnt and the thrust that is created from the hot jet and the thrust that is created by the so called cold jet. Now, this is the kind of bypass engine typically you would like to see if you have a jet engine that has a does not have a reheat, but it is just a bypass engine without any reheat. Now, overall efficiency of such a bypass engine without reheat can be again written down in terms of the hot exhaust waste energy as you can see here you have two versions one is the cold another is the hot. This quickly tells you that the cold one would actually have a waste energy which will be much less because it is exit bypass cold jet is going to have a higher lower V e and hence it is going to have a lower waste energy and it will show up in your overall efficiency of thrust production. If we put it all together if we put it all together the overall propulsive efficiency of such a bypass engine can be written down in terms of the hot jet that is hot thrust that is created the cold thrust that is created by the bypass and then of course these two components put together plus the waste energy that is going out which again has two components the hot waste energy and the cold waste energy. So, the numerator is your thrust production or the energy associated with the thrust production and the denominator is the energy associated with the thrust production plus the waste energy that has been created and this shows up in the form of the propulsive efficiency definition which we had used before and now we have a V e that is an average V e average of the hot and the cold and it stands to reason that since the cold thrust exhaust velocity is much lower this average is going to be lower and hence your propulsive efficiency of such a bypass engine is going to be higher and this is exactly what a bypass jet engine essentially aims to achieve and this shows up in the form of SFC and that is why one tends to have a bypass engine even if it is a low bypass engine as it is used we have seen between mark 1 and mark 2 just a little bit of bypass and this is why it is done. If you have even if you have a just a little bit of bypass it shows up in a little bit way in your propulsive efficiency and it shows up in your SFC and this is the small benefit that you get if you actually have lower SFC you need to carry less fuel in your aircraft body. So, this is the small benefit that you can get even from a low bypass jet engine and it shows up in this equation that we have written down for bypass engine. We can have a quick look at a very simple single spool turbofan engine in which it is a single shaft you just have a turbine through the single shaft it runs a compressor and it runs a big fan big fan produces the cold bypass it comes through the bypass duct and produces a cold jet and the inner flow comes through the combustion chamber turbine and then produces a hot jet and then this hot and cold jet together produce the thrust and as we have just seen this cold jet would have a lower velocity the hot jet would have a higher velocity and two of them together would produce the thrust and the average velocity of that would be lower and as a result of which your propulsive efficiency is going to be higher and if the benefit accrues in the form of SFC. There is another benefit the benefit is if you are exhaust velocities of a lower value and you have a cold jet essentially engulfing your hot jet the noise created by this jet is going to be much lower. Now this is a very important aspect in modern jet aircraft engine because most of the jet engines are very high noise creating devices. If it is used in passenger or cargo aircraft the noise is a very important issue because many of the airport today do not allow engines that create so much noise. So, most of the modern engines are being created to reduce the noise and this is another very important aspect of bypass even if you have a small bypass it reduces the noise substantially it gives you may be a small benefit in terms of SFC, but it may give you a fairly substantial benefit in terms of noise reduction and this is another facet of bypass engine even if it is a very simple single spool turbofan engine as we see in this picture. So, the bypass engine added to the basic version and we have seen reheat added to the basic version the reheat gives you more thrust the bypass gives you more efficient thrust production and lower SFC and a byproduct of it lower noise. So, we have discussed various kinds of basic jet engines in the next class we will look at multi spool turbo jet engines and various versions of turbo fan engines they are mechanical entities and how they various components of these engines are put together to make up a whole engine and this is what we will discuss in the next class.


Today I'm going to show you a little bit about some ways that we collect fish and one of the primary ways is with electrophishing and electrophishing can be a lot of different forms. We can use backpack electrophishers for small streams and we can use a boat electrophisher and that's what we're going to be using today to show you how we collect fish in ponds. This type of electrophishing is standard for a lot of our fisheries organizations like your state fisheries managers as well as the federal managers and we also a lot of the consultants use it in ponds to help assess the status of the pond. Is the pond in balance? Does it have the right number of bass, bluegills, etc. So once we collect these fish we can weigh, measure them and because we're using electrophishing they're actually going to be stunned. They recover in a few minutes and for the most part we release them. Some species are somewhat sensitive to electrophishing like grass carp so we can't guarantee that not any of them will be injured but for the most part we can release nearly all the fish unharmed back into the pond.


I'm Rick! I don't know what that was. What was that? I'm gonna die apparently here. And they were supposed to take time to call us officially tweaked. It's like when we had the... Maybe I should drink water instead of coffee. Yeah, maybe you need to be hydrated. I don't know what that is. There's some water and then there's... Stop drinking. There's water. There's water and there's bong for us. That is over there. But today we're reacting to a video. It's... I think a... I don't know what you would classify it as. Art... I mean not like a dance or anything like that. But it's like an art form activity. Like... Like a trapeze? Not trapeze. Like in Mumbai when they do the climbing thing. It's actually a celebration but it's also considered a sport. I don't know. I think something like that. But we'll see. I'm sure you're not still dizzy. It might be. It's called this. It's called Malakam. It's an acrobatic. That's what it is. It's an acrobatic thing. Pune India. Yes. But here we go. You ready to learn about it? Absolutely. There's something new about Indian culture. Come on. Incredible display of lettuces. Oh my God! It's a traditional Indian sport called Malakam. I think I've seen that. Even though it's nearly a thousand years old, it was before 2013 that it was declared an official state sport of India. I've seen that. I've always thought we'd explore the acrobatic world of Malakam and see why this amazing sport is an essential part of Indian culture. I think Cirque du Soleil has incorporated this into one of their... Definitely. Yeah, I've seen it. Also, if it's a white night, it's about an hour. Malakam is a part of Indian culture. It's known as the traditional Indian sport. And it is that unique sport which gives maximum exercise to the body in minimum possible time. And that's the fun of it. Wow. Wow. The bruising as they learn to do this. Malakam is a very unique kind of sport. Say, in this sport, you work against the gravity.  When you're holding the rope, Malakam in your toe. You know, it's the kind of pressure. We don't use it anywhere. So, each and every muscle gets used. Oh! Malakam. Grab with your toe. All the muscles in the body. I'm not saying these muscles involve this. These muscles involve this. From the top to toe. All the muscles involved in Malakam. If you're going to a gym, you require a different equipment for your shoulders, a different equipment for your thigh. But here on Malakam, one piece of wood, or one single cotton rope, and you can practice on it all the time and enjoy. The world of Malakam is very diverse with several variations and styles existing within the sport. Like bottle Malakam, which involves placing the foam on top of two layers of glass bottles before actually performing. Why? Which involves players working together and contorting their bodies to create impressive symmetrical designs around the foam. But when it comes to the sport and the word, head at a level, however, there are only three foundational forms. Basically, there are three types of Malakam which are included in the competitive events. The first main event is whole Malakam. Ropes, holds, grips. Every fundamental of Malakam are covered in this. Rope is entirely different from that. Rope is like moving and you have to balance yourself. It also includes intricate knots. We have to twist our body on the rope in such a way that we do not get stuck. But still maintain a grip. Wow! Continuously moving, involving. So it includes a lot of coordination and effort. You have to have a counter motion so that you are balanced on top of your body. Wow! So that's core work, bro. And then you can perform a different... It's like epic music. Wow! Speaking to my first Malakam training session was fun, challenging, but probably one of the hardest things I've ever attempted. Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! I only lost about five minutes for completely tiring. I realized something before. All the athletes practice together regardless of their age. And there's an underlying cultural reason for this. Dang. Indian culture, age is not a factor. I learn from my student. I'm not doing anything to him. He has that ability. Just I molded that ability. And I learned from him. This is our Indian culture. Guru, then Shishya. Then Shishya will become a Guru. Then Guru, then Shishya. Wow! Children in India start Malakam from a very early age. The daily training routines develop discipline and concentration that will benefit them as they grow older. Whether they're a boy or a girl, Malakam is a great way of molding these kids into physically and mentally capable young adults. Malakam basically helps you develop flexibility, strength, stamina right from a very young age. If you start it from at a later age, say like 15, 16, it is a bit difficult as the body starts becoming rigid. As we grow up, the muscles start tightening. The bones start getting hard. So, flexibility becomes a bit of an issue. So, starting at an early age gives us a very good advantage. That's huge on balance. So, more girls need to do Malakam because it gives you a different level of confidence. So, when they see Malakam first, they think, no. They become very reluctant. I don't think I can do that. But at the end of the session, they actually climb up. When they do the entire routine, they feel so much confident.  That fear gets automatically turned into the confidence. Psychologically, they start thinking, I don't think anything is difficult for them. So impressive. Malakam is all about creating access to the masses. Oh! Oh! Oh! Now they're paying it forward to the next generation. Not only does this mean that the sport of Malakam will continue to excel, but it also builds, strengthens, and supports the local community. Yeah! I hope they did it justice for those of you who know about this, because I know, you know, we don't know a thing about this. But, man, that's really cool. That was awesome. And I know the, in this year's America's Got Talent, there was a guy performing this year. Oh, really? Because I kept getting requests for it. And it was specifically Malakam. Yeah, I believe it was this guy. So if that's worth reacting to, you can let us know. But I know he went pretty far and people were really impressive, whatever performance he put on. And I know I've seen either exact replication in some Cirque du Soleil choreography, especially the rope aspect of it. Which is not unique to just Malakam. There's other disciplines of gymnastics that incorporate that in some way, shape, or form. But I'm hoping, knowing Cirque du Soleil, they're known for incorporating everything around the world that they can find, unique, different, beautiful things. This has got it. This is just really cool. I didn't hear him mention it, but I said it a couple times, balance. One of the things that happens when they get older is they not only stop taking care of themselves physically and just accept age, they don't recognize the fact people lose their balance. And one of the reasons they lose their balance when they get older is because they've stopped exercising the mechanisms in their body that handle balance. One of my things I do, every two or three years, I'll go back over to the park that has the Olympic rings. And I will specifically as I'll turn myself upside down and do pull-ups upside down because it'll work the muscles in a different way but it also gets my equilibrium used to what it feels like to be upside down. I'll even run at the rings, jump at them and swing and turn myself upside down so that I feel myself swinging upside down because it's the old adage of use it or lose it. And they didn't even mention it, but I guarantee there's a thing about balance that helps you with this. The horse strength is off the charts. It's insane the amount of skill this takes and dedication and focus to be able to do it and not hurt yourself. I guarantee the training they get bruised up especially when you start. They'll fall because they don't catch themselves because they caught themselves on their toe a lot which is unbelievable. On their toe. And that's what I was going to say. We should do a reenactment of this in some way. Something I've wanted for a long time that I would love this channel to develop into along with reactions and reviews but I'm sure you've seen like the Try Guys. I would love to become like the Try Guys that try Indian stuff. Heck yeah. I would love that. Just take one because I don't have the access to a lot of it because I don't know if there's anybody in LA that teaches this or has a safe place with a rope. I don't know if there's stuff like that it's just something I would love to do if we were in India that would be different of course but we don't live there. That's something I would always love to do but I used to be able to put my both legs behind my head as a kid until teenage years. Don't do it. Don't pop anything. You really should stretch before you do that. You know your mom can do the same position. That's not a big deal.


Dan, aunt's in the classroom. They're everywhere. I can't teach in this environment. You've got to do something about this. Well, where are they coming from? Well, they're around the window, all around the edge of the sink in the plant. They seem to be everywhere. I'll take care of that right now. Thanks.  Okay, I'll spray some of this. This will take care of your problem. Well, I hope it works. Thanks, Dan. The aunts are back. I thought you took care of this. Oh, man. They're all really bad problems. They're all over. You know, the kids, this is all they talk about. That's a big distraction. I can't teach in this environment. I'll spray them again. This will take care of it. Well, I hope it works this time. You sure you're using the right stuff? Oh, yeah. This is good stuff.  Well, I hope it takes care of it this time. Okay. Well, we'll see how that does. Thanks, Dan. Okay, bye. Quick fix sprays rarely provide lasting control for pest problems. An alternative approach is Integrated Pest Management, or IPM. This presentation will define IPM, explain what's in an IPM program, and tell you why you should practice IPM in your school. We'll show you ways how IPM can be practically worked into your school maintenance program, and tell you how you can make it happen. At the end of this section, you'll have the opportunity to see more specific ways IPM is carried out in schools and even get a chance to see some examples of IPM programs for common school pests. Finally, there is an interactive component that will stimulate discussion, so let's get started. Integrated Pest Management is a science-based, holistic approach to managing pest problems. Not only does IPM provide better control of pests, such as insects, weeds, or rodents, it can also limit the use of products and practices that may pose hazards for students and staff and the environment. IPM programs focus on strategies that prevent pest problems in the first place and provide long-term lasting control. A big part of any IPM program is inspection, detection, and monitoring. Staff doing IPM need to regularly inspect the school environment for conditions that may lead to pest problems, then eliminate these conditions. Staff must also put out traps regularly and carry out other procedures to monitor and detect pest presence. Once detected, pests must be properly identified so appropriate management practices can be selected. IPM programs usually combine or integrate several pest management practices for long-term control or pest problems. Because IPM relies mostly on non-chemical preventive or least toxic methods, it reduces or eliminates pesticide use. Adopting an IPM program will have many benefits for a school or school district. First and foremost, because IPM programs rely on good knowledge of pest biology and emphasize long-term pest prevention, you will have fewer pest problems than a program that relies on repeated pesticide applications. In the long run, you will save money because IPM is more effective. By relying on non-chemical methods or least toxic methods, an IPM program reduces or eliminates use of most hazardous pesticides. Fewer pesticide applications mean a reduction in hazards to students and staff and potential environmental problems. Because under the California Healthy Schools Act, public schools must post before and after pesticide use and notify parents, relying on non-chemical methods will substantially reduce paperwork. Also, use of pesticides requires that employees follow many other legal requirements related to storing, transporting and application, as well as use of specialized protective equipment. By requiring that records be kept, that specified procedures be followed in every type of pest situation, and that pesticides be applied only under predetermined circumstances when non-chemical methods have failed, an IPM program will provide accountability for parents, students and staff. Staff will know what their role is when a problem occurs. Fewer mistakes will be made. Parents and the public will feel comfortable that their children and the environment are being protected. Developing a formal, written IPM policy for your school district is a good way to let the public know that this is an important issue for you and also will improve the way pest management is carried out in your schools. Please see the handout included on this DVD for more information on establishing an IPM policy. The most successful IPM programs have a knowledgeable and dedicated staff with the skills, resources and authority to implement needed practices. All school districts must have an IPM coordinator whose job is to make sure that the requirements of the Healthy Schools Act are followed. This person is also usually knowledgeable about pest management methods and is responsible for making sure that IPM procedures are followed. The IPM coordinator carries out or supervises inspection procedures, make sure records are kept and that proper prevention and control methods are used when they are needed. If you have no one on your staff with IPM expertise, consider hiring an IPM consultant. Most everyone else in the school community needs to be involved in an effective IPM program as well. Staff and students must work as a team. Maintenance staff all need to maintain the physical environment in the school to prevent pest invasions. Keeping the cafeteria and other areas clean and sealing up pest entryways are key parts of IPM programs that all of these staff can be involved in. They also need to communicate problems to the IPM coordinator. Teachers participate by cleaning up food and keeping classrooms clutter-free and by promptly reporting problems to the IPM coordinator. Students help out by throwing trash in appropriate containers and keeping their desks and lockers clean. Administrators need to provide strong leadership for the IPM effort, including both monetary and administrative support. IPM programs often mean that some staff may need to assume new responsibilities or change the way certain tasks are carried out. Staff may need encouragement and may need training. Administrators may also need to support budget requests to upgrade facilities to build pest problems out. Although these initiatives may be costly at first, they will pay for themselves many times over once the work is complete. Here are some examples. Prevention should be the main focus in an IPM program. Many pests can be prevented with good planning and design. IPM practitioners look for opportunities to design pests out when putting in new facilities, when remodeling or repairing existing facilities or when planting new areas. For instance, applying insecticidal dusts in wall voids when remodeling or putting in new buildings will prevent roaches from establishing and ants from entering. Eliminating gaps, holes and cracks in newly constructed as well as old buildings will keep insects and rodents out. Installing door sweeps and weather stripping around all windows and doors are other ways to discourage pest invasions. In kitchens, screens on floor drains and ceiling around pipes will discourage cockroaches, mice and other invaders. Many small changes in outdoor landscaping or maintenance can make a big difference. Ivy, ground cover or other plants growing right next to perimeters of buildings can harbor pests such as ants, roaches and rats or mice making it easy for them to enter buildings. Keep plants at least one foot away from structures. A thin layer of gravel where inaccessible to students or a concrete strip all around the perimeters will keep weeds at bay. Install concrete mowing strips around lawns and at fence lines to make weed management easier at these locations. It is really hard to control weeds at fence lines if the fence was installed in turf. When planting new areas, location is important. Select well adapted and pest resistant plant species that will thrive in the location you are planting them. Take sun and shade requirements into consideration when planting new plants. Use plant species that will grow fast and can shade out weeds. Install mulches and landscape fabrics to prevent weeds from establishing. Keep trash cans away from doors. Dumpsters should have tight fitting lids and be kept closed. Keep all dumpsters and other garbage or recycling bins on concrete or asphalt pads. Try to keep bins near a water source so that they can be cleaned out regularly. Seal pavement cracks to avoid weed growth or ant colonies from establishing. Modify buildings that have a lot of flat surfaces where pigeons can roost. Build sloping caps on columns or other flat surfaces to discourage them. None of these measures are difficult to do and they cost very little but the payoff is big. Although an IPM program will require that you do things differently it will save you money compared to a traditional program of routine spraying for pests. An IPM program will require more communication among administrators, teachers and custodial staff. There may be some initial upfront costs to initiate a strong prevention program such as modifying the school buildings or grounds. However, IPM programs pay for themselves because they are more effective and longer lasting than conventional pest control. For instance, if you modify your facility to keep pests out you will have fewer problems for many years. Door sweeps and weather stripping not only keep pests out but save on heating and cooling costs. Fixing leaky pipes to eliminate unwanted moisture will also save water. Most rips and mulches save on weed control spraying costs. Regular monitoring for pests helps you focus your efforts on especially vulnerable areas. You save money because you are not treating everywhere. You will need to buy baits and traps and other IPM tools but you will compensate by saving money on spraying costs. We've been using integrated pest management techniques for over five years now in our school district and it's proved very effective. We've reduced the pesticide usage throughout the school and this has saved money. It has protected the children from coming in contact with this much pesticide and we don't have to go through the notification and posting requirements as often. Therefore the overall effect is that it is effective on control of the pests and good for the school and good for the children. So we encourage everybody to start using these methods in their school districts. You can gradually make the switch from conventional pest management to IPM. Begin implementing IPM in one location such as one area of the grounds or one classroom or in the kitchen. Focus on pests such as cockroaches or ants where good IPM alternatives are available. Start with small projects such as sealing holes in foundations, installing weather stripping or door sweeps to exclude pests. Initiate a regular inspection, detection and monitoring program to find out where your most serious problems are and develop appropriate management programs. Remind teachers, other staff and students of their role in keeping all areas of the school clean and using garbage cans and recycle bins. Expand your IPM program when it is working successfully in one area. Be aware of building issues and gather support for long-term projects. Consolidate programs. Often preventive methods or monitoring activities for one pest can also be adapted for others such as ants, cockroaches and rodents. Take advantage of every opportunity to build pest problems out. The best opportunities are during the early planning and design stage of new facilities or when remodeling, repairing or retrofitting existing facilities. Encourage or require IPM training for staff and understand that their job responsibilities will change. Incorporate pest management into job descriptions of new staff appointments. Award staff for large and small successes. If you have regularly scheduled pesticide applications for certain pests, replace them with a program of inspection, monitoring and prevention and spray only as a last resort. Hire an IPM consultant or a pest control advisor who is competent at pest management. Find expertise when you need it. Consult with other districts that have IPM programs. Develop an IPM policy for your school district that establishes procedures and policies to be followed when pests become a problem. Remember, a successful IPM program needs cooperation from the administration, teachers, students and staff. On the following screens you will be presented with several scenarios that will reinforce key ideas in the presentation and give you a chance to discuss integrated pest management with the group. Follow the instructions for each question. For many of the questions you will be instructed to hit pause so that you can have time to discuss your thoughts. Resume play when you are ready. In your school district, what are the barriers that might keep you from implementing an IPM program? Some examples may be lack of trained staff, lack of money, too difficult or too time consuming. Take a few minutes and discuss the barriers most important in your district. How can you overcome these barriers? Here are possible solutions to overcoming barriers in your district. DPR provides low cost training. Ask your risk manager about training opportunities. Seek outside expertise. Some IPM practices won't cost anything new. Permanent solutions provided by IPM will save money over the long run. Pick one or two problems to address at first and use methods that have been demonstrated to work for other districts or in other situations. What IPM methods have been implemented in your district? Please share your experiences with the group. Proceed to the next question when you are ready. What would be the appropriate roles of the following people in a school IPM program? The administrator. Administrators provide leadership for IPM effort including both monetary and administrative support. They encourage staff with new responsibilities or training and they approve upgrades to the facilities. The IPM coordinator. IPM coordinators follow the Healthy Schools Act and practice IPM in their district. Maintenance staff. This group maintains the physical environment of the campus, seals up PEST entryways and communicates with the IPM coordinator about PEST problems and PEST treatments. Teachers and students. Teachers and students are responsible for keeping classrooms, lockers and other areas clean. They should report any problems to custodians or the IPM coordinator.