Presentation Skills to Win that Bid! Selling Your Power Solution
These are cooling towers, not smokestacks, and it is worthwhile to learn the difference.
A large part of engineering involves presenting products, concepts, and proposals to others in order to gain approval, funding, contracts, etc. Through this activity, students' presentation skills are fine tuned while they independently investigate one type of power production to meet the needs of their region of choice. Students also learn problem solving skills while examining the advantages and disadvantages of particular methods of power generation.
Understanding energy issues is an important part of engineering. Engineers must fully understand the pertinent science concepts and be able to professionally explain technological concepts in simple terms or in a depth of complexity suitable for the audience.
After this lesson, students should be able to:
- Name different sources of power generation and describe how they work.
- List the pros and cons of each method and give real-world examples.
- Describe the long-term financial costs/benefits of each power source presented.