Renewable Energy and Engaged Interdisciplinary Learning for Sustainability (REELS)

可再生能源和可持续发展跨学科学习 (REELS)

• 批准号: 0817589
• 负责人: Ali Shakouri
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 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: 2008-08-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0817589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renewable; Energy; Engaged; Interdisciplinary; Learning

Two courses pertaining to renewable energies and sustainability engineering are being developed and taught jointly by the School of Engineering and the Departments of Politics and Sociology. One, Sustainability and Social Change, is an interdisciplinary course that explores the politics of sustainability and the process of technological innovation and the development of new renewable energy sources. The course will be cross-listed between the Politics and Sociology Departments. The second course to be affected is the current electrical engineering Renewable Energy course for which a renewable energy sources laboratory will be developed. A combination of laboratories, community projects, and case studies are creating an environment that cultivates innovation and inclusiveness, builds quantitative skills, and expands topical knowledge about renewable energies,and social justice issues related to sustainable development.Engineering students are learning broader social impacts and how to analyze issues of equity and inclusion. Social science students are improving scientific reasoning, applied engineering, and quantitative analysis skills. Students, faculty and community partners explore strategies to link social technologies with material innovations. The partnership connecting sociology with engineering is attracting more women and underrepresented minorities to careers in science and engineering.

工程学院与政治学和社会学系正在联合开发和教授两门关于可再生能源和可持续性工程的课程。 一，可持续发展和社会变革，是一个跨学科的课程，探讨可持续发展的政治和技术创新的过程和新的可再生能源的发展。 该课程将在政治学和社会学系之间交叉列出。 第二个受影响的课程是目前的电气工程可再生能源课程，将为此开发一个可再生能源实验室。 实验室、社区项目和案例研究的结合正在创造一个培养创新和包容性的环境，培养定量技能，并扩大有关可再生能源的专题知识，以及与可持续发展相关的社会正义问题。工程专业的学生正在学习更广泛的社会影响以及如何分析公平和包容问题。 社会科学专业的学生正在提高科学推理，应用工程和定量分析技能。学生，教师和社区合作伙伴探索战略，将社会技术与材料创新联系起来。将社会学与工程学联系起来的伙伴关系正在吸引更多的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族从事科学和工程职业。