Challenges and Opportunities in Microgrid and Solar Photovoltaic System Construction

Significant reductions in the cost of solar photovoltaic modules have been coupled with the emergence of innovative financial tools and resulted in dramatic increases in the development of distributed renewable energy generation systems. The deep penetration of solar energy throughout our nation\u27s electric sector is dependent on successfully integrating distributed generation, storage, and demand management systems. Achieving this challenge will require improvements to component technologies coupled with paradigm shifts in how energy systems and controls are conceived, developed, tested, and deployed in the marketplace. An integrative approach to meet this challenge is presented including the formation of a collaboration platform for academic and industry partners that is coordinated around a physical smart grid test bed embedded in a large unregulated electric grid. The value adding processes of this ecosystem for research, education, and market deployment are described based on two years of operation. Specific strategies for the advancement of smart grid solutions leading to the deep penetration of renewable energy are also presented including topics of distributed generation, energy efficiency, advanced metering and controls, and cyber security. Implications of these strategies on research, education, and workforce development are also described

Applied Strength of Materials for Engineering Technology

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Predator and Prey: A Study in the Prevalence of Articles Originally Published by “Predatory Publishers” in an Institutional Repository

The problem of academics publishing in journals of dubious quality, published by so-called \u22predatory publishers\u22 is only increasing. A group of IPFW faculty members, concerned about the problem and the affect it could have on their departmental reputations and the futures of graduate students credited as co-authors on such works, approached the IPFW Helmke Library about examining the issue as it manifested itself within Opus, our institutional repository. This led to a year long study which involved sifting through every journal article uploaded to the repository one at a time and comparing their publishers with those listed on Beall\u27s List. The results revealed that, while the problem did indeed exist within our repository, it was limited in scope, and confined to a small numbers of departments and professors. That some of these were repeat offenders made us begin to question the predatory publisher label

Sociomaterial Movement Learning in Evangelical Student Activism: A Case Study in Environmental Education

What began as a professor’s classroom illustration to encourage students to take climate change seriously sparked a student movement that transformed Eastern University into a leader in environmental stewardship and social responsibility. How did this happen at an evangelical university in a conservative coal state that, at the time, was producing 1% of the world’s climate change gases? Using the method of autoethnography, the author provides an explanation that involves political opportunity structures (recent legal changes now allowed consumers to purchase clean energy from the electrical grid), the influence of ideas (the professor had published a theory about the transformative influence of environmental education—students challenged her to operationalize the theories), intentional strategizing (by students who implemented best practices from other universities), student government (who conducted meetings across campus before holding a senate vote) and political struggle between university administrators and students that was only resolved after the student body president obtained media coverage by The Philadelphia Inquirer. What really lit a fire under the student body, however, went beyond theory frames, politics, legal changes, social movement strategies, student government or individual charisma. Some might call it serendipity. By 2003, 37% of Eastern University’s electricity came from wind energy. Within two years, Eastern University had 100% of the electricity for the main campus generated by wind energy. In 2004, they added a 56 kilowatt solar system to the roof of the Eagle Learning Center. On February 2, 2012, Eastern University made a seven-year commitment to 100% clean energy for the main campus. This is the story of the transformative and enduring influence of environmental education at Eastern University and the sociomaterial learning that influenced collective identity formation and student activism

Let’s make discussion forums more significant in the online classroom

As part of a senior capstone course, one of the graduating students developed a tutorial to enhance online learning. After surveying current students and collaboration with the health sciences librarian and faculty, two priorities for improvement emerged. These were identified as ways to help students work in groups and use discussion forums more effectively. This presentation will include sharing what was learned through the literature, a tutorial that was developed for students and how the effectiveness of the teaching strategy is being evaluated. Come learn about how to enhance your own online instruction

New Ethics, New Issues, New Teaching Activities

New realities require new ethical standards, and new ethics require new teaching/training activities and practice. Join four ethics instructors and learn about their most popular ethics teaching activities. The majority of our time will be spent engaged in a sampling of these activities, discussing the experience, and sharing participants’ favorite ways to teach and learn the NOHS ethics codes