A Multidisciplinary Platform for Wave Energy Education

该项目旨在促进科学，工程，技术和教育专业的波浪能本科教育。它旨在培养下一代劳动力，以满足这个国家不断增长的能源需求。一个由六名教师组成的多学科团队被召集起来进行这项教育工作。 该团队为Old自治领大学的三个学院（科学、工程和教育）的大量学生提供服务。在对波浪能进行持续研究的基础上，该团队的教师将他们的专业知识和研究成果融入到与波浪能相关的五个创新和自给自足的课程模块的开发中。学生通过课堂内外的学习活动获得知识，数学和计算技能，以及波浪能的实践经验。该项目的智力价值是建立一个关于波浪能的试验性教育平台，将课程编制、计算机模拟、教育设计、实地观察和社区推广结合起来。该项目的成功为可再生能源教育的多学科合作提供了一个模式，可以有效地促进STEM教育的国家需求，并可以在其他高等教育机构中广泛采用或实施。这个项目的更广泛的影响是由强大的STEM教育社区，涉及附近的HBCU，弗吉尼亚州社区学院，当地的军事基地和工业，以及高中的年轻学者。特别努力吸引大量不同的学生参加这一教育方案，特别是来自代表性不足群体的学生。

This project aims to promote undergraduate education in wave energy for science, engineering, technology, and education majors. It is designed to produce a next-generation workforce that can meet the ever-increasing energy needs of this nation. A multi-disciplinary team of six faculty members is assembled to undertake this educational effort. It is serving the needs of a large number of students in three colleges (Sciences, Engineering, and Education) at Old Dominion University.Building upon their on-going research on wave energy, the faculty members on this team are incorporating their expertise and research findings into the development of five innovative and self-sufficient course modules related to wave energy. Students are gaining knowledge, mathematical and computational skills, and hands-on experiences of wave energy through the learning activities inside and outside the classroom. The intellectual merit of this project is the establishment of a pilot educational platform on wave energy that integrates curriculum development, computer simulation, educational design, field observation, and community outreach. The success of this project provides a model for multidisciplinary collaboration on renewable energy education that can effectively contribute to the national needs in STEM education and that can be widely adopted or implemented in other higher educational institutions. The broader impacts of this project are represented by the strong STEM education community that involves nearby HBCUs, Virginia community colleges, local military bases and industries, and high school young scholars. Special efforts are made to attract a large and diverse body of students into this education program, especially those from underrepresented groups.