Welcome to the website of the US Department of Education DHSIP project P031S120131 – Fusing Green Energy into Manufacturing Engineering Education to Cultivate a Technical Success and Leadership Excellence Among Hispanic Engineering Students.

In this project, we will formulate two geographically separated virtual teams between UTEP and Drexel University (DU), collaborating on a green energy manufacturing project over the Internet. Implementing a mixed method of research design, students and faculty involved in the project are assessed in formative and summative formats to measure the efficacy of the project. The project is aimed to integrate green energy into manufacturing engineering curriculum and to cultivate leaders in the field among Hispanic engineering students. Successful completion of the project will lead to excellence in green energy and advanced engineering education. Dr. Bill Tseng in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering directs the effort on behalf of UTEP. Dr. Richard Chiou in the Department of Engineering Technology directs the effort on behalf of DU. Dr. Chiou from DU, who is an active participant in green energy manufacturing research for education, will also provide assistance in this effort. Dr. Tseng and Dr. Chiou jointly create three quasi web-based green energy courses and two consortiums. One emphasizes the management and decision-making aspects in green energy and while the other focus on the operation of green energy manufacturing. These courses are offered as senior electives and cross-listed in the both engineering curricula. During the consortium years, both UTEP and DU will provide workshops/short courses for students and industries. In order to have these courses permanently listed in the curriculum they apply to have them approved through the undergraduate curriculum committees by the end of 2017.

We believe that by providing green energy-related courses on undergraduate and graduate levels in a sequence,

1.The education will be perpetual,

2.Students will have the opportunity of exploring multiple facets of green energy, and

3.The collaborative project will be beneficial to both UTEP and DU students.