Conceiving Laboratory Experiments for Renewable Energy and Wind Energy System Courses

构思可再生能源和风能系统课程的实验室实验

• 批准号: 0737051
• 负责人: Jaime Ramos-Salas
• 金额: $ 3.44万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737051&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conceiving; Laboratory; Experiments; Renewable; Energy

Engineering - Electrical (55)The project, a collaboration effort between University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas-Pan American, is developing laboratory experiments with learning materials on wind turbine technologies and wind power system for undergraduate-level engineering courses. These materials are intended for use in a stand-alone dedicated course in wind energy and power systems or as a component in a more general power systems course. The project team is using the principles of How People Learn with challenged-based learning methods to achieve a better learning experience. Each experiment is formulated and presented as a challenge. Students then pursue the challenge systematically by going through each learning phase, i.e., generating ideas, viewing it from multiple perspectives, researching and revising, testing, and going public. Materials developed with this approach are creating and promoting effective learning environments characterized with knowledge-, learner-, assessment-, and community-centered learning dimensions. The laboratories encompass computer simulations and hardware laboratory experiments of wind turbine technologies and wind power system operations. The inclusion of both types of experiments facilitates transferability, adaptation, and dissemination of the materials to other universities. Evaluation efforts are using an assortment of techniques (i. e, surveys, focus groups, interviews, and student product analysis) to determine the students' perceptions about the material effectiveness and changes in their understanding and interest. Dissemination involves website posting, conference and journal presentations and papers, and a targeted effort to reach a half a dozen other schools with large power systems programs. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the material, strengthening and propelling the emerging wind power industry, and focused efforts on Hispanic students.

工程 - 电气 (55) 该项目是德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和德克萨斯大学泛美大学之间的合作项目，正在开发实验室实验，并为本科生工程课程提供风力涡轮机技术和风力发电系统的学习材料。这些材料旨在用于风能和电力系统的独立专用课程，或作为更通用的电力系统课程的组成部分。 项目团队正在使用“人们如何学习”的原则和基于挑战的学习方法来实现更好的学习体验。每个实验都是作为一个挑战来制定和提出的。然后，学生通过每个学习阶段系统地应对挑战，即产生想法、从多个角度看待它、研究和修改、测试和公开。用这种方法开发的材料正在创建和促进以知识、学习者、评估和社区为中心的学习维度为特征的有效学习环境。这些实验室包括风力涡轮机技术和风力发电系统运行的计算机模拟和硬件实验室实验。两种类型的实验的纳入都有助于材料向其他大学的转移、改编和传播。评估工作使用各种技术（即调查、焦点小组、访谈和学生产品分析）来确定学生对材料有效性的看法以及他们的理解和兴趣的变化。 传播包括网站发布、会议和期刊演示和论文，以及有针对性地努力到达六所拥有大型电力系统项目的其他学校。 更广泛的影响包括传播材料、加强和推动新兴的风电行业以及重点关注西班牙裔学生。