Boost Your Clean Energy Courses Welcome. What & Who Purpose Design Test Drive Your Questions Your Participation.

Boost Your Clean Energy Courses

Welcome

Welcome

• What & Who• Purpose• Design• Test Drive• Your Questions• Your Participation

What & Who: Community Energy, Inc.1st wind in NJ, IL, MA, NH and PA marketing

Keystone SolarOn-site Solar at Universities

Atlantic City

What & Who: Franklin and Marshall

What & Who

• Who is in the audience?

• Why did you attend this workshop?

• What disciplines interest you?

Purpose of WorkshopUniversities jumpstarted wind in the

Northeast(now 1,000 MW in PA alone!)

Solar requires that same type initial exemplar project

We want to give back: provide student access to real world projects to pave their

way to careers in renewable energy

F&M and CEI: Higher Education Partnering with Business

Green Power

Sponsor

Solar Development Course Materials Which Do Not Exist Anywhere Else. (Praxis)

Keystone Solar Project

Praxis Course Materials

F&M Course Offerings• ENV 117 The Environment and Human Values• ENV 170 Tooth and Claw: Conserving Ecosystems with

Predators• ENV 216 Environmental Policy• ENV/STS/ANT 234 Population• ENV/STS 312 Environmental History• ENV/STS 313 Nuclear Power, Weapons, and Waste Disposal• ENV 314 Comparative Environmental Politics• ENV 372 Environmental Law• ENV 375 This is Garbage• ENV/BIO 374 Wildlife Conservation for a Changing Planet• ENV 454 Environmental Problems• FND Seas and Sustainability• FND Energy and Society• FND Coral Reefs: Microcosm of a Complex System• FND Food, Plants, and Nutrition• FND Conservation Biology• FND Global Change• FND The Nature of Oceans• FND Water, Life, Society• FND Environmental Issues in Chemistry• GEO 118 Introduction to Oceanography• GEO 221 History of the Earth• GEO 226 Surface of the Earth• GEO/ENV 250 Environmental Resources and Geographic

Information Systems• GEO/ENV 344 Global Change/Natural Resources

• AMS/ENV 280 American Landscapes• AMS/ENV 401 From Wilderness to Environmentalism• BIO 110 Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Heredity• BIO 309 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry• BIO 323 Ecological Concepts and Applications• BIO 325 Marine Biology• BIO 336 Evolution• BIO 340 Plant Ecology• BIO/ENV 342 Forest Ecosystems• BIO 345 Nature Essays• BIO 374 Tropical Field Biology• BOS 200 Organizing in the 21st Century• BOS/ENV 335 Business and the Natural Environment• BOS 4xx Eco-preneuership• BOS 4xx Crisis Management• CHM 342 Environmental Chemistry• CHM 374 The Chemistry of Solar Energy Conversion• ECO 238 The Economy of Cities• ECO/ENV 240 Environmental and Natural Resource

Economics• ECO 320 International Trade• ENG/ENV 260 Nature and Literature• ENV/STS 172 Great Watersheds• ENV/GEO/STS 114 Earth, Environment, and Humanity

The Keystone Solar Project

Keystone Charter Customers

Course Materials Design

• Objectives• Course Materials• Organization• How to Use

Course Materials Objectives

• 60-80 documents• Videos explaining why, what and how

Provide not typically available to classrooms

Keep the Professor in the Driver’s Seat

Enable career path to clean energy jobs

Course Materials1. Solar 1012. Policy3. Business4. Technology5. Business

6. Environment/Geoscience7. Electrical Engineering8. Finance9. Construction10. It Takes a Village

Organization

• Embedded videos to introduce and explain

• Link to the actual documents

• “It Takes a Village”

How to Use

• Independent Study / Internship for Credit• 2-3 week module within existing course• Classroom course• Online course• Career Information for Career Management

Center (“It Takes a Village”)• Custom select a “special project”• Team Collaboration

Demo: Site Identification

• www.communityenergypraxis.com

• Example of a thread: Site Identification

– Video explaining parameters for choosing a site– Video explaining how to use GIS to identify sites that fit parameters

– Documents

• Wetlands Report• GIS data sets• GIS Exercise and answer sheet• Letter to landowners to initiate conversation about using land for solar

Demo: Pathways to Careers

• www.communityenergypraxis.com

• Example of a thread: “It Takes a Village”

– Videos of professionals discussing their careers– Most common student questions answered: Why solar?

Why did you choose this path? How did you get to where you are? What do you on a daily basis? What one piece of advice would you give to today’s students who want to do what you do? What’s your favorite part of your job?

How the Materials are Being Used by Franklin & Marshall

• Piloting and reviewing the materials

• Familiarizing faculty

How the Materials Could Be Used in the Future

• Sarah’s vision: Integration into intro-level courses

• Erika Jozwiak– Link 2

Thank You

Workshop Group DiscussionHow do we structure the greatest value for students?

What else would be valuable….Real time video?Webinar’s?Site visit?Training?Other?

Who else would be interested in participating?

How you can help

• Guide further design and delivery• Engage others• Encourage your Institution’s sponsorship

Learn More

http://www.communityenergypraxis.com

Byron [email protected]

Joel [email protected]

Sarah [email protected]

Erika [email protected]