- Undergraduate
- Graduate
The Hands-on Energy and Thermo-fluids (HEAT) Program creates an international energy and water engineering learning community with college-aged youth from Egypt and the United States. The program addresses three Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century identified by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering: advance personalized learning, teach energy engineering, and elucidate water management. The HEAT Program’s hallmark is deployment of educational laboratory kits used by students in both countries for focused hands-on instruction.
Activities
Through a combination of synchronous and self-directed learning, HEAT Program participants collaborate through Zoom to build and carry out a series of energy- and water-focused engineering experiments using their personal educational lab kits. Participants work together to test hypotheses, visualize phenomena, analyze data, evaluate theories, and draw conclusions. Learners then collaborate on international teams to create video and written reports, which are shared with the class to communicate outcomes and knowledge gained through their experiments.
Program Details
505
- Florida
- Egypt
Five to seven weeks (one hour of synchronous activity per week; two hours of asynchronous activity per week; six hours of student self-directed experimentation and collaboration per week)