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OUTREACH FRAMEWORK AND IMPACT
To have the highest impact on our regional community of undergraduates and community college students, our outreach efforts consists of high touch, medium touch, and broad impact to inspire and teach the next generation of engineers about renewable energy, distributed energy resources, optimization, and microgrids.
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To date, we've reached regional students across the San Diego Community College District and beyond. Students we've worked with are from UC San Diego, SD Miramar College, SD Mesa College, SD City College, Southwestern City College, and Imperial Valley Community College.
High Touch outreach is focused on sustained interaction and outreach with cohorts of students. Participation in this category aims to increase student engagement, participation, and training in technical topics. Sustained interaction focuses on learning, training, support, mentorship, feedback, and community.​
DERConnect Research Internship
November 2024 - September 2025​
San Diego Mesa College, 8 Students
DERConnect Outreach Research Assistants
November 2024 - September 2025​
UC San Diego, 2 Students
UC San Diego, 1 Student
Cal State University Long Beach, 1 Student
Engineers for a Sustainable World Collab
November 2024 - June 2025​
UC San Diego, 1 Student
Learning Framework
Whether its an internship program or an interactive research facility tour, we are grounded on one of the most impactful forms of learning: experiential. All of our outreach events focus on providing students with a concrete experience that is facilitated by scaffolded reflection on how they can engage and pursue beyond the initial experience through deeper education, student organization involvement, and research experiences.
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In our workshops, we target higher order learning in the Bloom's Taxonomy model by providing ways for students to apply their knowledge into projects and activities. It is the combination of both theory and practice that enable students to learn, engage, apply, and create.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain
Kolb's Experiential Learning Model