Conference Session

Sustainable-energy Education: Lessons Learned

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Ferguson, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Paul Weber, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

increase the chances of instantaneously placing millions ofcitizens in the dark.It is this very state of affairs that serves as the impetus for expanding coursework in energy andpreparing engineering graduates to leading society through the complex set of issues. All of theaforementioned issues and characteristics are elements of the course described herein, and thesurrounding discussion arguably forged the awareness and opinions of the class participants.Each student registering for the class had to first obtain permission from the instructor, a processwhere an informal interview revealed the student’s interest in energy and provided someassurance that some pre-existing attraction to the topic existed (beyond simply a need forcredits). Those