REMRSEC Education and Outreach Highlights
Over 20 graduate students have been trained in important scientific areas. The REU program contained 20 students over half of which were women and two were Native Americans. The K-12 teacher training workshop provided renewable energy modules to over 20 teachers in minority serving schools. The REMRSEC has teamed up with the CSM Diversity Committee to develop a diversity plan, which is currently being implemented. A professionally constructed web site contains material of interest to the general public.
2012 Highlights
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REU Alumni Survey
Maureen Durkin and Barbara Moskal
54 REU students surveyed from 2009 – 2011 REU programs. 50% said the REU had a significant influence on post-graduate aspirations; 35% said it had a moderate influence; 55% were from underrepresented groups
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REU Program
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Education and Outreach
Barbara Moskal, Jennifer Strong, Timothy Ohno, Charles A. Stone, IV
Teacher Workshop: Eighteen elementary school teachers participated in summer workshop. Student impact of approximately 200 students. Click highlight for more information.
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Renewable Energy
Charles A. Stone
The 2012 Renewable Energy REU at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) hosted 21 students from 13 different institutions (11 national, 2 international) in a 10-week summer program that strived for gender balance (6 females, 15 males) and diversity (6 underrepresented minorities, 2 non-traditional students), as well as a balance between participants from research institutions and from institutions where research opportunities for students are limited.
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REU Program
2011 Highlights
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International Student Exchange
Brian Simonds, Yong-Heng So, Ivan Perez-Würfl, Richard Ahrenkiel, Craig Taylor
Through an NSF fellowship, graduate student Brian Simonds spent summer 2011 with collaborators at the University of New South Wales learning to synthesize novel silicon quantum dot arrays.
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Renewable Energy
Charles A. Stone
Students attended weekly technical seminars that spanned photovoltaics, energy storage materials, the role of catalysts in fuel cells, computational energy science, and challenges & opportunities with biofuels.
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REU Program
2010 Highlights
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K-12 Outreach
Jennifer Strong, Linda Lung and Barbara Moskal
Partnership teachers and CSM graduate students attend a ten day, six hour per day summer workshop. For the teachers, this workshop addresses the applications of mathematics and science to energy and renewable energy. CSM graduate students receive instruction on K-12 education, literacy in mathematics and science classrooms, cultural differences and effective strategies for working with diverse populations. Joint sessions are held among graduate students and teachers, allowing for collaboration and brainstorming on lesson plans that are implemented during the academic year.
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2009 Highlights
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K-12 Summer Teacher Workshop
Charles Stone, Linda Lung
The Renewable Energy MRSEC at the Colorado School of Mines in collaboration with the outreach division at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory held a two week workshop for math and science teachers from public school catering to under-represented minorities. The teachers were given hands-on experiences for projects in renewable energy to incorporate into their lesson plans.
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Energy Minor at Colorado School of Mines
James McNeil
The Renewable Energy MRSEC at the Colorado School of Mines was instrumental in establishing a renewable energy undergraduate minor that is unique because it features both a renewable energy track and a traditional energy track. This approach is important because both types of energy will be important for the foreseeable future.
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Charles Stone, Linda Lung
The Renewable Energy MRSEC at the Colorado School of Mines in collaboration with the outreach division at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory held a ten week Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on renewable energy in which over half of the 20 students were women.
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2008 Highlights
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Creation of an Energy Minor Renewable Energy MRSEC
A central educational goal of the Renewable Energy MRSEC has been the creation of an undergraduate energy minor with a renewable track. A campus wide committee was created in Fall 2008 to develop this minor. The proposal the committee developed consists of tracks in renewable energy, fossil energy, and a general track spanning fossil, renewable, and nuclear energy. The minor will be accessible to any CSM student. Preliminary interest surveys suggest it will attract a disproportionate number of students from underrepresented groups. It is on track to be implemented beginning in the fall of 2009. Campus response has been overwhelmingly positive.
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Renewable Energy Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Chuck Stone
Professor Chuck Stone, REMRSEC REU Coordinator had an open house to advertise the first Research Experiences for Undergraduates program of the Renewable Energy MRSEC. It will be held 1 June through 5 August 2009. Over 65 interested students from departments across campus attended and many followed up with applications. The Renewable Energy MRSEC is clearly striking a chord with students from all disciplines.
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