Environmental Education in Electrical Engineering

Abstract

The need for sustainable development has added an environmental dimension to higher education programs in the field of Electrical engineering. The on-going process of integrating Electrical engineering with environmental practices provides excellent opportunities to analyze and develop new ways and methods in order to ensure environmental compliance and protection already at the early stages of engineering design. This paper presents an implementation of the Project-Oriented Education concept with the first two study series of Bologna undergraduates in the field of Environmental protection at Transilvania University of Braşov. The obtained results are based on two case studies which are discussed together with the outcomes of a student opinion survey. The study conclusion indicates a significant increase in the students' interest regarding the approached problem area.

Project based learning in environmental education light bulbs — Case study

“…Discussions with students show that they understood that the simulation process is useful, conclusion that confirms results obtained in [6]. The vision of the phenomena versus time is completed with the vision versus frequency, demanding students to simulate frequency characteristic of the filter.…”

“…In the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, there are two research directions in education, one that involves distance learning [9], [10] and one that that involves project based learning [6], the results being monitored in order to choose the adequate method to train the students. The direction this paper joins endorses the importance of debates in community and team work and is more valuable, confirmed in [11].…”