Several hands-on activities from the Beloit 2010 Renewable Energy Workshop have been incorporated into five different courses at several appropriate levels for varied student participants. Some of these activities have been modified or extended. Biodiesel synthesis was used with minor modifications in a summer 2010 non-science majors class immediately following the workshop. Construction of a Graetzel cell, also modified, was added to our general chemistry lab for fall 2010. These two activities have been used most successfully and extensively. More recently, we have incorporated these experiments into an upper-level course on renewable energy for physical science majors, an Honors energy course, and a new lab-based non-science majors course called Chem Tech. Students in Chem Tech also generate ethanol by fermentation and distillation. In addition, we have acquired 40 LED color strip kits and ICE solid-state models for use in the general chemistry lab course.

Implementing renewable energy workshop activities at Loyola University New Orleans

245th National Meeting (2013)

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