Hi everyone, I'm writing for some help. I want to invite one (or more) speakers to a virtual workshop (details below) who have creative ideas and experience educating the next generation of modelers. One of the speakers would, ideally, be someone outside of energy modeling who has exciting new ideas for delivering OR content and skills, and getting students excited about modeling, especially in these days of remote teaching. I'm looking for someone who can excite us to try new approaches. (Someone like Judith Liebman of UIll!)
Can you please email me at
bhobbs@jhu.edu with suggestions? (Don't be modest, please suggest yourself if you have ideas and inspirational experience that could contribute!!)
Thank you in advance! Ben Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University, F. INFORMS
Here are some details. The First Macro-Energy Workshop (https://energy.stanford.edu/macro-energy-systems/workshop2020), sponsored by Stanford University's Precourt Center, will be held Thursday-Friday 9/17-19/2020. It follows up on a 2019 paper in Joule (www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(19)30361-7.pdf) that outlined the need for a recognized discipline and academic infrastructure supporting research and researchers focusing on large scale energy systems and the energy transition, a discipline that was named Macro-Energy Systems. This workshop represents the next step towards the realization of the vision we laid out in this paper. The workshop is organized by several ENRE members led by Patricia Levi of Stanfard.
The session that the speakers and ideas are being solicited for is Panel 3: Educating future Macro-Energy Systems Researchers (organized by me and Inez Azevedo of Stanford). Its scope is as follows: "What do students of macro energy systems need to learn, and what's the best way to learn it? In this session we will brainstorm on potential goals, structure, and materials for a textbook for a course or set of courses on macro energy systems at the graduate level. We will have a group discussion with suggestions of what topics, pedagogical methods, and analysis could provide a common interesting structure across several universities, and that will address the needs of both practitioners and researchers."
Dept. Environmental Health & Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University