Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
Majoring in Renewable Energy
rmowery
follow
2
3-27-2008 4:06 PM
270 views
tags:
renewable energy
,
college degree
,
college
,
alternative energy
,
solar
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
GreenPix - Zero Energy - Trippy Solar Med...
No US Tax Credits For Solar Power
Can we have wind power and birds, too?
Oregon Launching First Solar Highway in US
Let Them Eat Rice: Washington's Unedifying...
About That Pelosi, Pickens Plan To Pick Ou...
green city planned in china
More clips from
rmowery
The son of illegal immigrants, American wr...
Women prefer men with stubble for love, se...
Americ's Shrinking Groceries
Today's Top Clips
Proven: Gorillas have human emotions
Polygamy is the key to a long life
Drunk Builders & Mad Architects
Do we create the world just by looking at it?
sleeping tiger and man, is this picture real?
Spider webs
Research: music is an important influence on our memories
World’s Most Spectacular Skylines
The Beauty of Spider Webs
Stand on the shoulders of giants - Plato Quotes
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
March 27, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c63bef1c-f6d0-4bb7-aca8-c62846658679/B9B95100-D2CB-48A6-B6BE-76EB7916D3A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=1a95aaae4d43d679&ei=5087%0A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=1a95aaae4d43d679&ei=5087%0A" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=1a95aaae4d43d679&ei=5087%0A"><NYT_HEADLINE _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> Majoring in Renewable Energy </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=1a95aaae4d43d679&ei=5087%0A"><P>AS business and industry are taking more interest in renewable energy, academia is not far behind. Anticipating increased demand for new technical and design skills, colleges and universities across the nation are offering degree programs in the field.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=1a95aaae4d43d679&ei=5087%0A"><P> The Oregon Institute of Technology has developed the country’s first four-year undergraduate degree program in renewable-energy systems. This year the program is training 50 students and will graduate its first class.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=1a95aaae4d43d679&ei=5087%0A"><P>The institute’s degree requires basic knowledge in engineering, electrical circuits, motors and generators, thermodynamics, heat transfer and the language of computers. Then come specialized courses in photovoltaics (<A title="More articles about Solar Energy." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/solar_energy/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">solar energy</A> research and technology), wind, biomass (the recycling of biological material), hydropower and geothermal energy development.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9B95100-D2CB-48A6-B6BE-76EB7916D3A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK
