Ehlig-Economides, C., & Aghara, S. K., & Pisupati, S. V., & Toossi, R., & Kovscek, A. R., & Ayar, M., & Binks-Cantrell, E., & Gilman, D. R., & Smith, D. L., & Robinson, T. A., & Yalvac, B. (2012, June), Live Energy: An Initiative for Teaching Energy and Sustainability Topics with the Most Up-to-date and Relevant Content.  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21658

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  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21658

Christine Ehlig-Economides, Sukesh K. Aghara, Sarma V. Pisupati, Reza Toossi, Anthony R. Kovscek, Mehmet Ayar, Emily Binks-Cantrell, Don R. Gilman P.E., Dennie L. Smith, Timothy Allen Robinson, and Bugrahan Yalvac.  "Live Energy: An Initiative for Teaching Energy and Sustainability Topics with the Most Up-to-date and Relevant Content.".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21658 Internet.  11 Jul, 2024

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  Christine Ehlig-Economides, Sukesh K. Aghara, Sarma V. Pisupati, Reza Toossi, Anthony R. Kovscek, Mehmet Ayar, Emily Binks-Cantrell, Don R. Gilman P.E., Dennie L. Smith, Timothy Allen Robinson, and Bugrahan Yalvac.
  "Live Energy: An Initiative for Teaching Energy and Sustainability Topics with the Most Up-to-date and Relevant Content.".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
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AB  -    Live Energy: An Initiative for Teaching Energy and Sustainability Topics               with the most Up-to-date and Relevant Content.In this NSF funded collaborative research project, five engineering faculty across the UScampuses are co-authoring an online textbook with the most up-to-date and relevant contentmaterial to teach energy and its sustainability to college students. Existing textbook materials onenergy and its sustainability are very limited in number and they often fail to provide the mostrecent information to the reader. Because of the evolving nature of the technical, political,economic, and societal settings that impact the mass media’s and public’s comprehension ofenergy and its sustainability, the traditional printed textbook materials are not sufficientlyproviding a global, trans-disciplinary, and up-to-date content. Our engineering professors and theNSF have recognized the need to develop textbook material involving dynamic content in naturethat can be updated frequently online by multiple authors to better serve the needs of the collegestudents learning about energy and its sustainability. Led by the TAMU College Station campus,five engineering faculty began working with technology experts and learning scientists inOctober 2010.In the poster presentation, we will describe the nature of our collaboration outlining the coursesoffered in the participating institutions (Penn State, Stanford, CSLA, TAMU Prairie View andTAMU College Station), our purpose of co-authoring the online textbook material, and ourresearch design to evaluate the impact of the developed textbook material on student learningexperiences. Among the measures we attempt capturing are the students’ content understanding,their life-long learning skills, their attitudes towards engineering, and their learning skillspertaining to energy and its sustainability. The content questionnaire instrument includes 20multiple-choice items written by one of our faculty members. The life-long learning scale andthe engineering attitude scale were cited in the literature with valid and reliable measures. Ourresearch team designed the remaining energy and its sustainability learning skills items.We collected control data from four of the five institutions in Spring 2011 semester. Students infour classes were the study participants. The pre and post responses of the students to theresearch instruments revealed that the traditional textbook materials (or the instruction withoutour online textbook material) did not show much improvement on students’ contentunderstanding and their skills and attitudes pertaining to energy and engineering. Findings alsoshow no institutional differences. We used the collected control data to evaluate the effectivenessof the content questionnaire items. Item analysis revealed a need to redesign six items that hadmarginal difficulty powers or that very insufficiently discriminated the upper and lower studentgroups. The revised items are being used in the Fall 2012 semester. We will continue collectingdata and revise the design as needed.Our faculty members have been drafting the chapters since Summer 2011. The table belowshows the working Table of Contents for the online textbook. In our presentation, we will alsoprovide the overall characteristics of the textbook we anticipate to finish drafting by Fall 2012.Table. The working Table of Contents for the TUES Live Energy online textbook.    Section 1. Past, Present, and Future of Energy       Chapter 1.1 Energy Sustainability       Chapter 1.2 Energy Uses and Sources       Chapter 1.3 Energy Conversions    Section 2. Valuing Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability       Chapter 2.1 Economics of Energy       Chapter 2.2 Economics of the Environment       Chapter 2.3 Sustainability Metrics    Section 3. Fossil Fuel and Bioenergy       Chapter 3.1 Coal       Chapter 3.2 Oil       Chapter 3.3 Natural Gas       Chapter 3.4 Unconventional Fossil Resources       Chapter 3.5 Bioenergy       Chapter 3.6 Environmental Consequences of Combustion    Section 4. Nuclear Energy       Chapter 4.1 Nuclear Energy Technology       Chapter 4.2 Nuclear Energy Policy and Global Issues    Section 5. Renewable Energy Sources for Heating and Electricity       Chapter 5.1 Hydro Energy       Chapter 5.2 Geothermal Energy       Chapter 5.3 Solar Thermal Energy       Chapter 5.4 Solar Photovoltaic Energy       Chapter 5.5 Wind Energy       Chapter 5.6 Transmission, Distribution, and Storage for Renewable Energy Sources    Section 6. Future Energy Choices       Chapter 6.1 Natural Gas as a Bridge       Chapter 6.2 Hydrogen    Appendices      Appendix A: Mathematical Notation      Appendix B: Abbreviations and Acronyms

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