Back to Air Quality trainingCourse Description:
This five-day course provides an understanding of the skills needed to work with and understand air quality measurements.
Topics include:
- Arithmetic computations in air quality
- Metric system
- Significant figures and rounding
- Units conversion
- Basic statistics
- Problem solving
- Volume, temperature, and pressure
- Creating and interpreting graphs of air quality data
- Calibration and slope
- Bias and precision
- Percent and percentile
- Exponents
- Working with Excel
Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for tribal environmental personnel who have limited experience in air quality data computations. This course is a pre-requisite for ITEP's "Air Pollution Technology (TECH)" course and is recommended for those working on the technical side of air programs including: quality assurance/quality control, data management, and technical-report writing. It is recommended that applicants complete ITEP's "Introduction to Tribal Air Quality" or have a basic familiarity with air quality topics before attending this course. Attendees will be required to complete pre-course work and evening homework assignments during the course.
Course Structure and Approach:
This course takes a "learn-by-doing" approach. Brief lectures will be interspersed with activities in which participants practice the skills introduced during the lectures. Each participant will have access to a calculator and/or computer as needed during the practice sessions. There will be homework each evening during the course.
Pre-Requisites:
none
Contact:
Lydia Scheer, 928/523-6887, Lydia.Scheer@nau.edu
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Last updated: March 29, 2010