Goals:

• Expand awareness of personal energy use
• Foster analytical thinking
• Link business decisions and energy implications
• Emphasize spreadsheet skills

• Record all energy use for 7 days (electricity, driving/riding, heating, hot water) - See Blackboard "Course Documents" for a template form.
• To assess hot water, record total # minutes in shower each day.
• For driving/riding, record miles driven (calculate gallons of gasoline used, based on miles per gallon rating of car used).
• For electricity, record #minutes (hours) of usage for each appliance and lights (check wattage of bulbs used in lamps; note wattage of each appliance).
• Calculate kwh for all electricity used ([watts x hours of usage]/1000 = kwh).
• Convert kwh and gallons of gasoline used to MBTU (million BTUs).
• Hot water use and space heating/air conditioning will be estimated, using information from University records or utility bills, based on type of residence for each person.
• Submit Energy Diary in good form; for a better grade, transfer information to an Excel spreadsheet.
• Determine from your Diary some possible energy savings (add up total MBTUs of possible Energy Saved; report this amount to professor for master chart).
• You cannot receive an A for this assignment if your diary does not conform to the guidelines and/or if your data cannot be incorporated into the class summary.
  

• When you receive the class statistics on personal energy consumption, prepare a report with the following components:
• Introduction
• Methods Used
• Results (Including Class Data Table and Yearly Comparison Graph provided by professor, along with one graph showing a comparison of your choice
  
• Discussion of data and its meaning
  
• Conclusions and Recommendations (include at least 3 conclusions about the data, and at least 2 recommendations for change)