Teaching Sustainable Energy: A Roadmap for Educators
Workshop 11
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Saturday, May 22
8:30am to 5:30pm

Registration Price: $325 on or before April 1, $350 after April 1, $375 on-site (includes lunch)
You DO NOT have to register for the conference to register for a workshop. On the Conference Fees page in the registration system, choose "Workshops, Tours, Special Events Only."
NOTE: Workshop price includes a copy of Dr. Kreith’s forthcoming book “Principles of Sustainable and Renewable Energy” – a $119.95 value.
Presented by: Dr. Frank Kreith and Alia Ghandour, University of Colorado at Boulder
Description: Teaching Sustainable Energy: A Roadmap for Educators. Tomorrow’s energy future begins in your classroom TODAY! This workshop will provide you with the background, tools, and intellectual resources necessary to offer your students interdisciplinary training in sustainable energy. In only a day, you will receive templates for your course syllabus, a suggested reading list and reference materials, sample problems with solutions and discussion points, ideas for field trips and hands-on learning activities and a template for course website design. This workshop consolidates years of work that has gone into a highly successful Sustainable Energy Course currently taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder!
Materials to be provided to attendees include
Templates for:
•    Course Syllabus & Schedule
•    Reading List & Reference Material
•    Sample Problems with Solutions and Discussion Points
•    Suggested Field Trips & Hands on Learning Exercises
•    Course Website Design
Registrants will receive, when it is published (a few weeks after the workshop), a copy of Dr. Kreith’s forthcoming book “Principles of Sustainable and Renewable Energy” – a $119.95 value.
Registrants should bring their laptop computer with a wireless modem to access course materials.
Who should attend? Educators interested in developing sustainable energy courses for upper level college students. While the material designed for college-level coursework, it could be modified to accommodate an advanced high school level course.

8 AIA CEU's - Health & Welfare and Sustainability - available for this session

Additional Workshop Details:

PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP
This workshop will provide educators in colleges and universities with the background and tools necessary to develop and present an interdisciplinary course on sustainable energy for upper level college students and introduce high school teachers to the subject.

CONTENT OF THE WORKSHOP
Workshop topics will include basic thermodynamics and economic principles needed to evaluate the efficiency and cost of energy projects; fundamentals of renewable energy technologies, including solar (thermal and PV), wind, and biomass; and evaluation of energy projects based on traditional financial analysis as well as the concept of energy payback. The workshop will provide a context for these technical topics with a session on the linkages between exponential population growth, world demand for food, water and energy.

PRESENTERS’ CURRENT POSITIONS AND EXPERTISE

Frank Kreith is Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently teaches an interdisciplinary course on Sustainable Energy and supervises a student research team that is developing a dual-tracking multi-layer PV system under contract with Boeing. He recently completed a textbook entitled Principles of Sustainable and Renewable
Energy for CRC Press and is currently reviewing production proofs for the book, which is scheduled to be published in early 2010. Dr. Kreith also serves as a reviewer for renewable energy proposals submitted to the US Department of Energy under the federal government’s economic stimulus plan.

Alia Ghandour has worked for 16 years to promote the deployment of renewable energy systems in developing countries, most recently as an independent consultant and prior to that as Senior Project Leader for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and International Bioenergy Program Director for the U.S. Export Council for Renewable Energy. She has conducted numerous training activities focused on renewable energy options analysis. Ms. Ghandour holds an MS in International Energy & Environmental Policy from Georgetown University and is currently pursuing a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dr. Kreith and Ms. Ghandour first worked together in 1993 when they gave a workshop in Chiang Mai Thailand on Integrated Energy Resource Planning