By Associated Engineering Press
College is intended to prepare young adults for the real world, but in Nitin Chopra’s Advanced Energy class, students are already affecting the real world from inside the classroom.
After participating in the UA Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility’s Faculty Fellows in Service Learning Program, Chopra, associate professor of engineering, launched a course in Spring 2014 in which UA students develop novel and low-cost alternative energy systems for use in everyday situations.
In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s College of Engineering has more than 5,200 students and more than 170 faculty. In recent years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater, Hollings, Portz, Boren, Mitchell and Truman scholars.
Author: Associated Engineering Press / Posted on: September 5, 2015 / Posted in: Faculty and Staff, In The News, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Outreach, Students
