Projects—

Consortium for Education in Renewable Energy Technologies National Science Foundation/Department of Undergraduate Education
(NSF/DUE 0202352)

Principal Investigator: Joy McMillan

The overall goal of this project was to establish a Consortium for Education in Renewable Energy Technologies (CERET) to facilitate implementation of a broad-based interdisciplinary approach to technical education in renewable energy technologies. This goal supported the vision of the consortium to embrace and mainstream renewable energy technologies through:

  • development of a technically-competent renewable energy industry workforce
  • fostering of the production of more energy from Wisconsin grown agriculture products and by-products
  • encouraging the use of distributed energy generation sources promoting applied renewable energy understanding and knowledge

CERET:

  • Focuses on establishing a technology demonstration site where business, industry, farmers, agribusinesses, consumers, legislative and governmental leaders, trades people, students, and educators can learn about renewable energy technologies and distributed sources of energy generation from the around the U.S. and the world
  • Working with business and industry partners to provide hands-on training and new curriculums for skilled workers in the distributed energy generation, new and amerging energy technologies, and renewable energy field
  • Encouraging the use of ethanol, bio-diesel, and other Wisconsin-based renewable fuels from agricultural sources
  • Making the promise of renewable and distributed energy technologies a reality for Wisconsin

CERET:

Offers technical training and education to incumbent workers as well as students seeking careers in renewable energy technologies. To insure that faculty of college students and teachers of high school students are well prepared in these technologies, the project is conducting workshops and courses for teachers. The project also facilitates discussion and implementation of a public voice for renewable energy technologies through a partnership with the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. CERET provides training for the workforce needed to implement technologies for energy generation and distribution to sustain the economic strength and competitiveness of Wisconsin and the United States.

MATC & UW-Madison Delta Project Internships

The University of Wisconsin Delta Program is a research, teaching, and learning community for faculty, academic staff, post-docs, and graduate students created to help current and future faculty succeed in the changing landscape of science, engineering, and math higher education. Through the teaching-as-research idea, the Delta Program supports current and future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty in their ongoing improvement of student learning. The Delta Internship Program gives participants practical experience to develop their skills, as they work in partnership with a faculty mentor. Madison Area Technical College has partnered with The University of Wisconsin to provide faculty mentors for UW graduate students completing their internships at the technical college campus.

Past and present UW students completing Delta Internships at MATC:

Project: Fuel Cell Technology

Intern: Matt Damato, UW Department of Materials Science

Mentor: Barb Anderegg, CERET project director

Project: Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry

Intern: Sara Kerr, UW Environmental Chemisty and Technology Program

Mentor: Ken Walz, MATC Department of Chemistry

Project:Photovoltaic Technology

Intern: David Ennis, UW Department of Physics

Mentor: Ken Walz, MATC Department of Chemistry

Student's interested in completing an internship, and faculty members
wishing to serve as mentors may contact the following individuals:


  • Don Gillian-Daniel

    • Internship Program Developer, UW

    Email: dldaniel@wisc.edu

  • Barb Anderegg

    • Delta Internship Coordinator, MATC

    Email: banderegg@matcmadison.edu

MATC & UW-Madison—Introduction to Engineering Projects

The Introduction to Engineering course at UW-Madison (INTEREGR 160) engages students in hands-on, real-world engineering design projects. Working in teams with assistance from both UW and MATC faculty, students have constructed original solutions to problems proposed by Madison Area Technical College.