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Renewable energy blog articles – roadmap to your future energy career
This blog section contains renewable energy blog articles that provide an insight into different renewable energy courses and their potential career paths. The articles work as a roadmap for tomorrow’s energy professionals and those new to renewable energy technologies. The goal of this renewable energy blog section is to provide knowledge in the renewable energy technologies areas and to guide students regarding their career choice in renewable energy technologies sector.
Renewable energy technologies: why should this STEM subject be part of your high school education?
November 27, 2020
Have you ever seen wind turbines or solar photovoltaic plants while on road trips with your family and wondered what those are for? Have you ever come across a large hydropower plant and become curious about how does it work? If these fascinating renewable energy technologies (alternatively called, clean energy or green energy) do not spark your interest yet, consider the science behind some of these renewable energy technologies. Why does a hot gas balloon go up?…
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STEM education – learning challenges you face as a high school student
November 27, 2020
Have you noticed the rapid change in the education landscape worldwide? E-learning seems to have taken over the entire US and Canada, and is heading for the rest of the world. As a high school student, you must have heard casually about STEM education from your seniors or peers. However, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, particularly Technology and Engineering, is a whole new ballgame…
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STEM teaching via the Internet: why and how to address the delivery issue?
November 27, 2020
As a high school science or college teacher, have you considered teaching STEM subjects online? The concept of teaching online is floating for a while now. However, online teaching was mainly introduced for high-education students. A common approach to online teaching is that the teacher/instructor basically reads out a PowerPoint presentation or teaches in front of a camera for 45 minutes or so…
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Renewable energy courses as college electives: make your decision easier through e-learning
December 31, 2020
As a college student, do you feel nervous about choosing the best skill-development elective courses? If so, you are not alone! For many of your fellow college students, choosing the elective courses is a crucial decision. This is because it determines your career prospects after the completion of your college diploma. However, the indecisiveness of choosing the right course is commonly very high…
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Leverage e-learning to prepare for the solar energy industry
January 31, 2021
Have you ever thought about joining the solar energy industry? Have you been wondering what it takes to prepare you for job in solar energy industry? You must have seen rooftop solar panels, or a vast area of land covered with thousands of solar panels, known as solar farms. A house equipped with such solar panels or a small community powered by a stand-alone solar farm is a direct example of solar energy industry…
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Wind energy industry – how e-learning can help you prepare for jobs in this niche
January 31, 2021
Are you ready to take part in a renewable energy industry that promises not only to solve tomorrow’s energy problem but also help mitigate climate change? Did you know that wind energy technology is one of the most important renewable energy technologies that supply clean electricity to the utility grid? In other words, wind energy technologies play a major role in today’s electricity distribution systems from a generating system to a consumer over a distance…
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Online STEM education – its importance to your career and things you must consider to acquire it via the Internet
January 31, 2021
These days a significant number of students are opting for Online STEM education. As a high school or college student, you must have benefited from Internet technology at some point in your academic journey. Whether for academic materials or merely a spelling check, the Internet has been an ally for us all at some point. In the last decade and a half, the Internet extended its academic support one step further by promoting education in the form of e-learning or online STEM education…
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STEM-based training in biofuels – how e-learning biofuels can land you tomorrow’s green jobs
July 05, 2021
Have you ever seen a flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV)? These vehicles can run on gasoline-ethanol blends of up to 85 percent ethanol (E85). Ethanol is an organic chemical compound and is also considered as a transportation fuel or biofuel by blending with gasoline. In the industry, such gasoline-ethanol blends start with E5 or E10 or low-ethanol blends or high gasoline-ethanol blend such as E85…
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How online learning can teach you about biofuel resources and prepare you for next-generation jobs
July 15, 2021
This blog article continues our discussion on biofuel while extending it to biofuel resources. The main biofuel resources – or transportation fuel – is biomass that must be transformed through specific processing and reactions. You wake up every morning to see biomass resources – for example trees – all around you. While driving on highways, you may even see canola or sugarcane fields as other resources of biomass…
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