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St. Leger, Aaron – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: A novel multidisciplinary undergraduate course on alternative energy (AE) engineering that addresses gaps in current AE education, provides hands on skills, and matches topical coverage with societal needs. Background: Resource depletion and emissions associated with burning fossil fuels have led to growing worldwide interest in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Nontraditional Education
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Nazi Homayounnasab; Peter Adam Hoeher; Sandra Hansen – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
This paper deals with an integration of STEM education and project-based learning (PBL) by introducing a hybrid hardware/software-based learning platform covering eight learning units. PBL not only bridges the gap between theory and practice, but also focuses on improving students' soft skills, which is important as they prepare for further…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Student Projects, Technology Integration
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Ivanchuk, Anatolii; Zuziak, Tetiana; Marushchak, Oksana; Matviichuk, Anatolii; Solovei, Viktor – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Technical literacy is a component of professional competence of the pre-service technology teacher. However, the course content of technical disciplines in the pedagogical universities of Ukraine is not consistent with the content knowledge subsequently used in teaching practice of a technology teacher. Also, there is a need in general technical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Technology Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Sánchez-López, Alizabeth M.; Pedraza, Sandra – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
Universities have always been acknowledged as important drivers of economic development. Traditionally Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) contributed indirectly by disseminating knowledge and providing educated personnel to industries. A shift in the primary missions of universities encourages universities to take a more active role in…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Universities, College Role, Interdisciplinary Approach
Demeo, Anna E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The reality of global climate change, due to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases, is upon us. A significant source of emissions comes from the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy that is consumed in every aspect of daily life. As such, the human ecological link between how we live and our impact on the planet is at the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Energy Conservation, Pollution
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Doll, Julie E.; Eschbach, Cheryl L.; DeDecker, James – Journal of Extension, 2018
Dialogue with stakeholders has been recognized as an effective educational strategy for addressing complex topics such as climate change. We report here on the Carbon, Energy, and Climate fishbowl discussion series developed by Michigan State University Extension to assist the state's agricultural community in understanding and adapting to the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Stakeholders, Educational Strategies, Climate
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Butler, Brandon M.; Burgin, Stephen R. – Social Education, 2016
Jamestown is at the heart of any teaching and learning of colonial American history. Stories of John Smith and Pocahontas are learned by elementary and secondary students across the United States. In Virginia, Jamestown is first taught in third grade and revisited five more times from historical, political, economic, and geographic perspectives.…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Interdisciplinary Approach, United States History, History Instruction
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Delgado, Elvin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
Energy issues are becoming increasingly common subjects of instruction in undergraduate- and graduate-level classrooms across a variety of disciplines. The interdisciplinary character of energy studies provides geographers with a great opportunity to present different applied and theoretical approaches to help students conceptualize energy issues…
Descriptors: Energy, Energy Education, Power Technology, Class Activities
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Lawson, John; Aggarwal, Pankaj; Leininger, Thomas; Fairchild, Kenneth – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
This article describes a collaborative learning experience in experimental design that closely approximates what practicing statisticians and researchers in applied science experience during consulting. Statistics majors worked with a teaching assistant from the chemistry department to conduct a series of experiments characterizing the variation…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Research Design, Chemistry, Statistics
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Durakovic, Emina; Feigl, Britta Marion; Fischer, Bettina Marion; Fleck, Christopher; Galler, Lisa-Maria; Heinrich, Johannes; Kulmer, Karin; Kurzweil, Birgitta; Scholze, Markus; Sperl, Raphael Stefan; Unterkofler, Rene; Remele, Kurt; Matzenberger, Julian; Ahamer, Gilbert – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show a practical case of dialogic web-based learning that has provided a set of questions analysing two complex technological projects in "southern" countries with effects on multicultural equity. Design/methodology/approach: Structured online review processes in multicultural and systems science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Power Technology, Multicultural Education