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Boost Your Clean Energy Courses

Boost Your Clean Energy Courses. Welcome. Welcome. What & Who Purpose Design Test Drive Your Questions Your Participation. What & Who: Community Energy, Inc. Atlantic City. 1 st wind in NJ, IL, MA, NH and PA marketing. Keystone Solar. On-site Solar at Universities.

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Boost Your Clean Energy Courses

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  1. Boost Your Clean Energy Courses Welcome

  2. Welcome • What & Who • Purpose • Design • Test Drive • Your Questions • Your Participation

  3. What & Who: Community Energy, Inc. Atlantic City 1stwind in NJ, IL, MA, NH and PA marketing Keystone Solar On-site Solar at Universities

  4. What & Who: Franklin and Marshall

  5. What & Who • Who is in the audience? • Why did you attend this workshop? • What disciplines interest you?

  6. Purpose of Workshop Universities jumpstarted wind in the Northeast (now 1,000 MW in PA alone!) Solar requires that same type initial exemplar project We want to give back: provide student access to real world projects to pave their way to careers in renewable energy

  7. F&M and CEI: Higher Education Partnering with Business Keystone Solar Project Green Power Sponsor Solar Development Course Materials Which Do Not Exist Anywhere Else. (Praxis) Praxis Course Materials

  8. F&M Course Offerings • ENV 117 The Environment and Human Values • ENV 170 Tooth and Claw:  Conserving Ecosystems with Predators • ENV 216 Environmental Policy • ENV/STS/ANT 234 Population • ENV/STS 312 Environmental History • ENV/STS 313 Nuclear Power, Weapons, and Waste Disposal • ENV 314 Comparative Environmental Politics • ENV 372 Environmental Law • ENV 375 This is Garbage • ENV/BIO 374  Wildlife Conservation for a Changing Planet • ENV 454 Environmental Problems • FND Seas and Sustainability • FND Energy and Society • FND Coral Reefs: Microcosm of a Complex System • FND Food, Plants, and Nutrition • FND Conservation Biology • FND Global Change • FND The Nature of Oceans • FND Water, Life, Society • FND Environmental Issues in Chemistry • GEO 118 Introduction to Oceanography • GEO 221 History of the Earth • GEO 226 Surface of the Earth • GEO/ENV 250 Environmental Resources and Geographic Information Systems • GEO/ENV 344 Global Change/Natural Resources AMS/ENV 280 American Landscapes AMS/ENV 401 From Wilderness to Environmentalism BIO 110 Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Heredity BIO 309 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry BIO 323 Ecological Concepts and Applications BIO 325 Marine Biology BIO 336 Evolution BIO 340 Plant Ecology BIO/ENV 342 Forest Ecosystems BIO 345 Nature Essays BIO 374 Tropical Field Biology BOS 200 Organizing in the 21st Century BOS/ENV 335 Business and the Natural Environment BOS 4xx Eco-preneuership BOS 4xx Crisis Management CHM 342 Environmental Chemistry CHM 374 The Chemistry of Solar Energy Conversion ECO 238 The Economy of Cities ECO/ENV 240 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics ECO 320 International Trade ENG/ENV 260 Nature and Literature ENV/STS 172 Great Watersheds ENV/GEO/STS 114 Earth, Environment, and Humanity

  9. The Keystone Solar Project

  10. Keystone Charter Customers

  11. Course Materials Design • Objectives • Course Materials • Organization • How to Use

  12. Course Materials Objectives

  13. Course Materials • Solar 101 • Policy • Business • Technology • Business Environment/Geoscience Electrical Engineering Finance Construction It Takes a Village

  14. Organization • Embedded videos to introduce and explain • Link to the actual documents • “It Takes a Village”

  15. How to Use • Independent Study / Internship for Credit • 2-3 week module within existing course • Classroom course • Online course • Career Information for Career Management Center (“It Takes a Village”) • Custom select a “special project” • Team Collaboration

  16. Demo: Site Identification • www.communityenergypraxis.com • Example of a thread: Site Identification • Video explaining parameters for choosing a site • Video explaining how to use GIS to identify sites that fit parameters • Documents • Wetlands Report • GIS data sets • GIS Exercise and answer sheet • Letter to landowners to initiate conversation about using land for solar

  17. Demo: Pathways to Careers • www.communityenergypraxis.com • Example of a thread: “It Takes a Village” • Videos of professionals discussing their careers • Most common student questions answered: Why solar? Why did you choose this path? How did you get to where you are? What do you on a daily basis? What one piece of advice would you give to today’s students who want to do what you do? What’s your favorite part of your job?

  18. How the Materials are Being Used by Franklin & Marshall • Piloting and reviewing the materials • Familiarizing faculty

  19. How the Materials Could Be Used in the Future • Sarah’s vision: Integration into intro-level courses • Erika Jozwiak • Link 2

  20. Thank You

  21. Workshop Group Discussion How do we structure the greatest value for students? • What else would be valuable…. • Real time video? • Webinar’s? • Site visit? • Training? • Other? Who else would be interested in participating?

  22. How you can help • Guide further design and delivery • Engage others • Encourage your Institution’s sponsorship

  23. Learn More Byron Woodman Byron.woodman@communityenergyinc.com 484.680.9266 Sarah Dawson sarah.dawson@fandm.edu Joel Thomas jthomas@communityenergyinc.com Erika Jozwiak Erika.jozwiak@fandm.edu http://www.communityenergypraxis.com

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