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...as a Faculty Extern shares what he learned during his HTWI Industry Externship.The Externship opportunities bring together companies with new technology and faculty members who want to update their curriculum. Faculty members collaborate with a company mentor to complete a mutually beneficial project. They use their expertise to benefit the company, and the company will help the faculty members enhance their knowledge of emerging technologies. Then that knowledge is modified and shared as a classroom-ready educational piece across the District and nation.
Friday, January 21, 2011 10:00 am - 11:30 am MST
Carbon Sequestration: New Curriculum Featuring a Promising Alternative Energy Technology
Presenter: Brad Bates, Chemistry Faculty, Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Description: Carbon sequestration, the process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it in a reservoir, is a promising alternative energy technology. Under an externship for the High Tech Workforce Initiative at the Maricopa Community Colleges, Brad Bates will detail his externship with Diversified Energy Corporation, a privately held company specializing in the advancement of a series of promising alternative and renewable energy technologies. While there, Brad researched and determined the parasitic load created by carbon capture in different types of power plants; investigated potential business opportunities related to carbon sequestration; and briefed Diversified Energy on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. As a result of his experience, Brad created and piloted new curriculum focused on carbon sequestration that explores:
1. Daily student energy usage
2. How coal is made into electricity
3. Carbon sequestration
4. Carbon reuse and recycling
5. Possible careers in carbon reuse and recycling
Check out these previously recorded webinars:
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) Curriculum Update with Industry (recorded 10/1/10)
Supply Chain and Inventory Control: Limiting Factors and the Technologies That Help Them Work (recorded 12/3/10)
To access these webinars click here. *Webinar password: "networks"
