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Faculty + Staff

Janice
Means
Professor Emeritus

Janice K. Means, Professor Emeritus, Lawrence Technological University (LTU), has diverse experience in consulting, industry and higher education. Her engineering experience ranges from consulting (energy efficiency, solar energy design and blasting effects to pipelines) to natural gas pipeline transmission problem solving and facilities work in a major automobile company’s research center.

Professor Means presents papers and seminars internationally and has coordinated/taught architecture/architectural engineering courses (HVAC, Electricity, Acoustics, Illumination, High Performance Buildings, Active Solar Design and Passive Solar Design). She has also organized several statewide and local sustainability and solar energy conferences and seminars.

As a lifetime member of ASHRAE, Ms. Means has served in several leadership positions at the local, regional and international levels. She is a trained presenter for the ANSI/ASHRAE/ IESNA Energy Standard 90.1, and serves on several international technical committees. She co-edited the 4th and 5th editions of ASHRAE GreenGuide: Design, Construction & Operation of Sustainable Buildings, and was a contributing author to Chapter 36 in the 2008 ASHRAE HVAC Systems and Equipment Handbook.

Ms. Means is past Chair of the Engineering Society of Detroit’s (ESD) Affiliate Council and a past board member of the Michigan Interfaith Power & Light (MiIPL) and the Michigan Solar Energy Association.

Professor Means earned her Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is a Fellow of the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD), a Michigan Registered Professional Engineer (PE), a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and has earned multiple distinguished service awards from ESD and at the local, regional and international level from ASHRAE.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.