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This 2-page guide, made available by Madison Area Technical College, provides a ten step project management plan for creating a solar photovoltaic roadmap based on the college's own experience. The steps are as follows: Identify Team and Articulate Purpose, Motivating Objectives, Identify...

This 22-page paper was presented at the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and reports on a U.S. faculty international study program. This study explored the intersection of the German renewable energy and energy storage sectors. The international program included...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV follows a non-traditional adult student as he returns to school to study wind energy technology, and examines water treatment technology for desalination. The video can be viewed...

This 40-page consultant report from the California Energy Commission provides tools and guidelines for installers ensure that residential photovoltaic power systems are properly specified and installed, resulting in a system that operates to its design potential. This document sets out key criteria...

This 1-page document, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), is a learning activity where students gain the opportunity to use analytical meters and instruments to perform acid deposition sampling. In the activity, students collect samples from various sources over a...

The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), located at Eastern Iowa Community College, has created a number of videos on various environmental and energy fields and educational programs available on their YouTube channel. Topics range from biodiesel to wind turbines, and the...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. In this episode of ATETV, viewers will learn about what it takes to be wind turbine service technicians, who "work outdoors and hundreds of feet in the air maintaining, troubleshooting and repairing...

The Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) is a website published by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the United States Department of Energy. The website "provides a wealth of information and data on alternative and renewable fuels, advanced vehicles, fuel-saving strategies, and...

This video, from the Ohio State University, demonstrates how to set up an experiment in anaerobic digestion for bioenergy production using common household items, including vinegar, baking soda, and water bottles. The video is intended to introduce educators to the process for the purpose of...

Daniel Burman had a successful career in real estate but was never happy. That all changed when he returned to school to study solar photovoltaics. He's now working in the alternative energy field with a local business and is not only making a good living, but also feeling excited about his job and...