Ehlig-Economides, C., & Yalvac, B., & Binks-Cantrell, E., & Pisupati, S. V., & Gilman, D. R., & Toossi, R., & Aghara, S. K., & Robinson, T. A., & Smith, D. L., & Ayar, M. C. (2014, June), Live Energy: U.S. Faculty Co-Author an Electronic Textbook to Deliver the Most Up-to-Date and Relevant Content in Energy and Sustainability  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--22803

\bibitem{asee_peer_22803}
  Ehlig-Economides, C., \& Yalvac, B., \& Binks-Cantrell, E., \& Pisupati, S. V., \& Gilman, D. R., \& Toossi, R., \& Aghara, S. K., \& Robinson, T. A., \& Smith, D. L., \& Ayar, M. C. (2014, June), \emph{Live Energy: U.S. Faculty Co-Author an Electronic Textbook to Deliver the Most Up-to-Date and Relevant Content in Energy and Sustainability}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--22803

Christine Ehlig-Economides, Bugrahan Yalvac, Emily Binks-Cantrell, Sarma V. Pisupati, Don R. Gilman PE, PMP, Reza Toossi, Sukesh K. Aghara, Timothy Allen Robinson, Dennie L. Smith, and Mehmet  C. Ayar.  "Live Energy: U.S. Faculty Co-Author an Electronic Textbook to Deliver the Most Up-to-Date and Relevant Content in Energy and Sustainability".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://strategy.asee.org/22803 Internet.  08 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22803}
  Christine Ehlig-Economides, Bugrahan Yalvac, Emily Binks-Cantrell, Sarma V. Pisupati, Don R. Gilman PE, PMP, Reza Toossi, Sukesh K. Aghara, Timothy Allen Robinson, Dennie L. Smith, and Mehmet  C. Ayar.
  "Live Energy: U.S. Faculty Co-Author an Electronic Textbook to Deliver the Most Up-to-Date and Relevant Content in Energy and Sustainability".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://strategy.asee.org/22803 Internet.  08 Jun, 2024

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AB  -  Live Energy: US Faculty Co-Author an Electronic Textbook to Deliverthe Most Up-to-date and Relevant Content in Energy and Sustainability.In this NSF funded collaborative research project, five engineering faculty from campusesacross the US have co-authored an electronic textbook with the most up-to-date andrelevant content material to teach energy and its sustainability topics to college students.Existing textbook materials on energy and its sustainability are very limited in number andthey often fail to provide the most recent information to the reader. Because of theevolving nature of the technical, political, economic, and societal settings that impact themass media’s and public’s comprehension of energy and its sustainability, the traditionalprinted textbook materials are not sufficiently providing global, trans-disciplinary, and up-to-date content. Our engineering professors and the NSF have recognized the need todevelop a textbook material involving dynamic content in nature that can be updatedfrequently online by multiple authors to better serve the needs of the college studentslearning about energy and its sustainability topic and their role in society.In this poster presentation, we will report the outcomes of the project including thecharacteristics of the courses our faculty taught, our research design, data collection andmanagement processes, and the evaluations of the student outcomes with and without theelectronic textbook was used in the instruction. In our measures, we attempted to capturethe students’ content understanding, their life-long learning skills, their attitudes towardsengineering, and their learning skills pertaining to energy and its sustainability. Thecontent questionnaire instrument includes 20 multiple-choice items written by one of ourfaculty members. The life-long learning scale and the engineering attitude scale were citedin the literature with valid and reliable measures. Our research team designed theremaining energy and its sustainability learning skills items.We have collected control data from the five institutions during the beginning and end ofthe Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, and Spring 2013 semesters. Studentsin the faculty authors’ classes were the study participants. The pre and post semesterresponses of the students on the research instruments revealed that the traditional textbookmaterials (or the instruction without our electronic textbook material) did not significantlyimpact the students’ content understanding and their skills and attitudes pertaining toenergy and engineering. Findings also show no institutional differences. From the pilotsemester (Spring 2011), we used the collected control data to evaluate the effectiveness ofthe content questionnaire items. Item analysis revealed six items to be re-designed. Wemodified these six items that had marginal difficulty powers or that very insufficientlydiscriminated the upper and lower student groups. The revised scales were used in the Fall2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, and Spring 2013 semesters. We will highlight our analysisof the newly collected data and revision of the design. During Spring 2013, the electronictextbook was implemented. Students’ perceptions of the electronic textbook, includingstatistically significantly higher perceptions from those who viewed the electronic textbookvia iBook versus those who did not, will be presented and discussed.Our faculty members have been drafting the chapters since Summer 2011. The table belowrepresents the chapter titles and table of contents. In our presentation, we will also providean overview of the electronic textbook.Table. The table of contents for the electronic textbook.Section 1. Past, Present, and Future of EnergyChapter 1.1 Energy SustainabilityChapter 1.2 Energy Uses and SourcesChapter 1.3 Energy ConversionsSection 2. Valuing Energy, the Environment, and SustainabilityChapter 2.1 Economics of EnergyChapter 2.2 Economics of the EnvironmentChapter 2.3 Sustainability MetricsSection 3. Fossil Fuel and BioenergyChapter 3.1 CoalChapter 3.2 OilChapter 3.3 Natural GasChapter 3.4 Unconventional Fossil ResourcesChapter 3.5 BioenergyChapter 3.6 Environmental Consequences of CombustionSection 4. Nuclear EnergyChapter 4.1 Nuclear Energy TechnologyChapter 4.2 Nuclear Energy Policy and Global IssuesSection 5. Renewable Energy Sources for Heating and ElectricityChapter 5.1 Hydro EnergyChapter 5.2 Geothermal EnergyChapter 5.3 Solar Thermal EnergyChapter 5.4 Solar Photovoltaic EnergyChapter 5.5 Wind EnergyChapter 5.6 Transmission, Distribution, and Storage for Renewable Energy SourcesSection 6. Future Energy ChoicesChapter 6.1 Natural Gas as a BridgeChapter 6.2 HydrogenAppendicesAppendix A: Mathematical NotationAppendix B: Abbreviations and Acronyms
AU  - Christine Ehlig-Economides
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AU  - Emily Binks-Cantrell
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AU  - Don R. Gilman PE, PMP
AU  - Reza Toossi
AU  - Sukesh K. Aghara
AU  - Timothy Allen Robinson
AU  - Dennie L. Smith
AU  - Mehmet  C. Ayar
CY  - Indianapolis, Indiana
DA  - 2014/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Live Energy: U.S. Faculty Co-Author an Electronic Textbook to Deliver the Most Up-to-Date and Relevant Content in Energy and Sustainability
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