A Campus Wide Course On Microrenewable Energy Systems

This paper describes the intellectual and pedagogical issues, and results from two teachings of a campus-wide course dealing with a highly interdisciplinary topic: the possibility of developing renewable power generator devices that are suited to a single family. The course is set at the senior elective level in Engineering, but it is open to students at the junior level and above from any College on a campus that includes Colleges of Management, Architecture, and Sciences, and a unique college that includes Economics, Public Policy, International Affairs, Modern Languages and History of Science and Technology.