What Professors and Teachers can do for New Energy

New Energy for an Ultra-modern VietnamWhat Teachers & Professors Can Do for New Energy

July 2014Vietnam New Energy Group

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Therefore the next group we’d like to discuss is: University Professors

University faculty members have an especially important role to play in the

rollout of New Energy

And it’s going to be one of the most mind-expanding, rewarding, and enjoyable

professional rides academia could ever take

Future generations will look back on this time as a time when the universities re-invigorated their mission to serve the public good and fulfill their

role as the brain trust of society

As a university faculty member, you can form research teams with your colleagues and graduate students

And in many cases, get undergraduates to contribute as well

Use these teams to translate scientific literature in New Energy into Vietnamese

Your translations can be used as teaching materials at your own university, and also disseminated within the wider scientific

community in Vietnam

You can also use your research groups to design and build New Energy applications

Once you’ve assembled a research team, apply for grant money

• From your university• From private foundations• From investors and corporations• From NGOs

We all know that university faculty salaries are quite low

• Working on New Energy projects for corporate and government clients can give you and your university an extra income stream

Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate!

• Both inside Vietnam and abroad• New Energy research is like solving a puzzle• Each researcher has certain pieces, but you

have to assemble all the pieces together to solve the puzzle

Organize colloquia & conferences

• These can be small weekly or monthly meetings at your university

• They don’t need to cost much money – you just need to reserve a conference room and get your colleagues to attend

Publish the scientific reports from those colloquia and conferences on your university’s web site

Science journalists and New Energy bloggers will help to disseminate that information

Perhaps more important than

anything else, doing New Energy research

will give you a way of benefitting your community, your country, and our

planet

Surely this feels much better than using one’s talents to assist Old Energy companies in destroying

the environment, or helping industrialized food companies poison our families’ meals with new

chemical seasonings and preservatives

Just as students work under the supervision of their professors, the professors work under the guidance of university leaders