ABSTRACT
The contribution of renewable energies, renewables, to world energy supply is increasing significantly. It is necessary to prepare undergraduate engineering students to face the challenges presented by renewables. As an essential step to prepare undergraduates for further educational levels in the renewables, comprehensive renewable energy courses should be introduced and taught at this level. In this entry, a comprehensive course for renewable energy sources is introduced for this level of education. The main goal of this course is to motivate the students to understand and analyze energy collection, conversion, utilization, and storage for renewables such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, hydropower tides, and waves. The role of nanotechnology is introduced as well for some of these renewables. Basic laboratory sessions for two renewables, solar and wind energies, are also introduced for the sake of practice on these two sources.
