It’s the 21st century! Show your students that they can be a graphic designer for the tech industry too! In this ETP, Students will develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity skills beyond what they imagined.
In this lesson, the students develop a synthesis to make biodiesel from vegetable oils. Students convert canola oil, a common vegetable oil found in kitchen, to biodiesel. The conversion involves a transesterification reaction of a triglyceride with methanol to produce biodiesel and glycerol.
Solar energy can be part of a mixture of renewable energy sources used to meet the need for electricity. Engineers have developed technologies to convert solar energy to electrical power efficiently using photovoltaic cells (also called solar cells).
Students begin in whole group to introduce vocabulary and terms. They will then partner up or be in small groups to watch short videos about solar energy. They will be introduced to the power of solar energy and the processes used to convert solar energy into electromagnetic and thermal energy.
The goal of my ETP is for my students to work collaboratively to design an arrangement of solar cells that produces the most current.
This activity will extend student knowledge of various nonrenewable and renewable energy sources into a series of stoichiometric calculation sets.
Project Management Tool: This project management tool was inspired by different tools currently used by the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program, to help students working on projects set goals and maintain project requirements.
During my fellowship at the SFPUC, I learned about the different pillars of the agency: water, power, and sewer.
Currently, Berkeley Chemistry fellows (postdocs, graduate students, and undergrads) are using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light generated by table-top lasers to probe potential solar energy converting materials in order to analyze their charge carriers’ excitation and relaxation process.