Conceiving Laboratory Experiments for Renewable and Wind Energy Systems Courses

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分校的合作项目，正在开发实验室实验，为本科工程课程使用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业课程，或作为更一般的电力系统课程的组成部分。该项目团队正在使用人们如何通过基于挑战的学习方法进行学习的原则，以实现更好的学习体验。每个实验都是作为一项挑战来制定和呈现的。然后，学生们通过每个学习阶段系统地追求挑战，即产生想法、从多个角度看待它、研究和修改、测试和公开。用这种方法编写的材料正在创造和促进以知识、学习者、评估和社区为中心的学习维度的有效学习环境。这些实验室包括风力涡轮机技术和风力发电系统操作的计算机模拟和硬件实验室实验。这两种类型的实验都有助于材料的可转移性、改编和传播到其他大学。评估工作使用了各种各样的技术(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。传播包括网站张贴、会议和期刊演示文稿和论文，以及有针对性地努力接触到其他六所拥有大型电力系统项目的学校。更广泛的影响包括材料的传播，加强和推动新兴的风力发电行业，以及针对西班牙裔学生的重点努力。

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.