Education Working Group
The Education Working Group provides a forum for wind industry members and individuals from the educational community to promote: wind education programs for Kindergarten through the 12th grade; job and career training programs for Community and Technical Colleges; academic and career development programs at Undergraduate and Graduate institutions; and scholarship opportunities through the "AWEA Educational Scholarship Program". The group will meet up to three times each year and interact through emails and an online eCommunity forum.
Kindergarten-12th Grade Goals
- Increase marketing of existing K-12 curriculum
- Focus on disseminating information to AWEA membership, "Wind Energy Works" members and Project Developers
- Disseminate information through AWEA events & WINDPOWER
- Identify external organizations that for distribution of educational materials
- Continue to refine and expand current K-12 curriculum
- Develop case studies and examples of pathways (types of jobs) into the industry
Sub Group Lead: Mary Spruill
Executive Director
National Energy Education Development (NEED)
mspruill@need.org
Technical/Community College Goals
- Develop introductory workforce training program
- Develop guidelines for a standardized curriculum (for one and two-year degree programs)
- Identify technical and community colleges that have created a training program on wind energy
Sub Group Lead: David Vrtol
Instructor
Highland Community College
David.Vrtol@highland.edu
Undergraduate/Graduate College Goals
- Develop consortium database and/or curriculum database of university and graduate wind/renewable energy classes or programs
- Create a Universities Guide based on current 'wind for schools' effort at Department of Energy (DOE)
- Build a listing of manufacturers and developers that currently support Universities
Sub Group Lead: Jonathan J. Miles, Ph.D.
Professor, Integrated Science and Technology
James Madison University
milesjj@jmu.edu
