How can electronics engineers help to power the green transition?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 engineering and technology.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Peter Gammon, an electronics engineer at the University of Warwick. He is developing silicon carbide technology to improve the efficiency of electric vehicles, satellites and the National Grid.

• This resource also contains an interview with Peter. If your students have questions for Peter, they can send them to him online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Peter will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Peter’s research and challenges them to discover how the electrification of fossil fuel systems will contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

• The PowerPoint reiterates the key points in the article.

• An animation about Peter’s work, with downloadable script, is available through the link below.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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