Kirkwood Community College

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IOWA SUSTAINABILITY VILLAGE Kirkwood Community College (Kirkwood) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, proposes a low-risk project that leverages the integral role community colleges perform as front-line change agents and confirms Kirkwood’s commitment to sustainable energy. This comprehensive pathway project, named the Iowa Sustainability Village, will expedite the urgently needed transition from the concepts of science and education to the reality of human needs and behaviors. The vision for the Iowa Sustainability Village comprises the normal expectations of a “village”: buildings (i.e., simulation facilities/technologies), people (i.e., a steady stream of stakeholders interested in sustainable energy), and their sustainability interactions (to meet current human needs without endangering future generations). The village concept presents a welcoming, casual environment conducive to learning, teaching, and problem-solving. The simulation facilities will be erected on three acres of land on Kirkwood’s 690-acre main campus and will encourage and allow stakeholders to witness sustainable energy technologies and practices in action, from design to implementation through research analyses. The village facilities represent three types of buildings: small “green cabins” for residential, an education center for commercial, and, an industrial production facility. In addition the village will host an outdoor laboratory featuring a residential-size wind turbine, solar collectors, photovoltaic systems, geothermal devices, including developing technologies. All facilities will be fitted with extensive usage-monitoring devices, resulting in substantial data collection for analysis and effectiveness verification. The village will be located near the college’s new industrial-size wind turbine (generously donated to the college by a nearby wind-turbine manufacturer) and thriving Industrial Technologies building. Stakeholders are numerous: credit and non-credit college students across disciplines (e.g., industrial technology, social sciences, health, business, liberal arts); workers who need specialized training; college faculty and staff; K-12 educators and students; residential and commercial energy consumers; employers; and staff and board members from governments, health organizations, and universities (the University of Iowa is 30 miles south of Kirkwood’s main campus; the University of Northern Iowa is 60 miles north). Kirkwood has the advantage of long-established accessibility to all these stakeholder audiences. Kirkwood administration, faculty and staff are dedicated to increasing fundamental knowledge and building human capacities to imagine, design, create, and put in practice, sustainable energy systems. This pathway project is aligned with Kirkwood’s organizational vision to invent, develop, and deliver learning solutions for the 21st century, and its mission to identify community needs; provide accessible, quality education and training; and promote opportunities for lifelong learning. This project combines these diverse motivations and responsibilities to deliver a sustainable pathway to a sustainable world. The Iowa Sustainability Village weaves together three objectives, whose outcomes are scalable, replicable, and cross-functional by organizational type, discipline, or trade. These objectives are:

1. Design and build two types of innovative, data-generating simulation facilities, in order to physically connect the production and transmission of scientific knowledge and technological innovation with the motivation for humans to assess and change behaviors.

2. Communicate imperatives throughout the Kirkwood region, by leading a collaborative, actionable sustainable energy movement that presents a unified message about and champions practical solutions to meet the environmental, societal, and economic imperatives.

3. Develop and implement applied sustainable energy curricula, to meet changing education and workforce development needs through a community-based, lifelong learning collaboration.

Center for Sustainable Education

Education and Workforce Development

Behavioral ResearchDesign and Build Working Laboratories

Iowa Sustainability Village

SHEP’s

13-14Lessons/Activities

Develop Surveys

Improve Yearly Design

Monitor Energy Performance

CECertificates/Workshops

K-12Lessons/Activities

Activ

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Obj

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Develop Curriculum

Lessons on Design and Performance

Survey Data & Orientations

Deliv

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Evaluation of Technical, Educational and Behavioral Research

REPORTING

Asse

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Diss

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Identify National Certifications

Organize Focus Groups

Collaborate Internationally

Education and Workforce Development

Credit

K-12

Continuing Education

National Certifications

Sustainability Certificate

Grade Level Curriculum

Kirkwood Certificates

Workshops &Seminars

NCCER

USGBC

Energy Consumer

Certificates

Solar, Wind, Geothermal

USGBC Student Club

Interdisciplinary Courses

6th Innovations

10thCollaboration

2ndExploratory

Horticulture / Environmental

Science

Interdisciplinary /Hands On

Develop Credit Program

KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

IOWA SUSTAINABILITY VILLAGE

ActivityID Description Early

StartOriginalDuration

Scientific knolwledge & Technical Innovation201221040 Organize and Design SHEP 11 12SEP11 A 192

21050 Build SHEP 11 18JUN12 60

201321020 Design Arch & Engr 15OCT12 * 70

21030 Bid Village package 23JAN13 40

23020 Bid Wind and Solar package 23JAN13 40

22100 Submittals/ fabricate/ deliver building 20MAR13 66

23100 Submittals / fabricate / deliver wind & solar 20MAR13 88

21100 Complete Village site work 27MAR13 44

21200 Build Village foundations 30APR13 44

22200 Build Center 18JUL13 110

23200 Build Wind and Solar 19DEC13 44

20143040 Design SHEP 13 02SEP13 * 70

22640 Build SHEP 13 09DEC13 60

24030 Install instrmentation & monitoring devices 05MAR14 40

2041 Site improvements 17MAR14 * 30

20161090 Design SHEP 15 07SEP15 * 70

24000 CSDC year four 01OCT15 * 1156

1100 Build SHEP 15 14DEC15 60

12SEP11 A 2205

Education and Workforce Development201321600 Design Workshops 16FEB12 80

21610 Teach workshops for students / teachers 07JUN12 60

21630 Complete preliminary design curriculum 06JUL12 140

21620 Teach summer camps 28SEP12 40

2014

KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

IOWA SUSTAINABILITY VILLAGE

ActivityID Description Early

StartOriginalDuration

22600 Teach student / teacher workshops 01OCT13 * 40

22610 Teach Adult seminars 26NOV13 60

22620 Revise workshops and seminars 20FEB14 60

22630 Plan international teleconferencing 15MAY14 80

201523600 Teach student / teacher workshops 01OCT14 * 40

23610 Teach Adult workshops 26NOV14 60

23620 Organize international teleconference 20FEB15 40

23630 Integrate curriculum with state Model core 17APR15 120

201624600 Teach student / teacher workshops 16DEC16 * 40

24610 Teach Adult workshops 10FEB17 60

24620 Organize international teleconference 05MAY17 40

24640 Design curriculum for CEU 05MAY17 109

24630 Teach the teacher workshops 30JUN17 60

16FEB12 1458

Societal, environmental, and economic imperative201321500 Design evaluation of societal impacts 16FEB12 80

21530 Evaluate implementation 1st quarter 16FEB12 22

21510 Research - focus groups 07JUN12 80

21520 Survey societal impacts 28SEP12 80

21540 Evaluate progress end of 1st year 01JUL13 22

201422500 Interview in depth - societal impact 22JAN13 120

22520 Evaluate progress end of 2nd year 19DEC13 22

22510 Evaluate implementation 1st quarter 02JAN14 * 22

201523500 Evaluate Implementation 1st quarter 02JAN15 * 22

23510 Evaluate Progress end of 3rd year 03FEB15 22

2016

KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

IOWA SUSTAINABILITY VILLAGE

ActivityID Description Early

StartOriginalDuration

24520 Survey societal impacts 05MAR15 80

24510 Evaluate Progress end of 4th year 14DEC15 22

24500 Evaluate Implementation 1st quarter 04JAN16 * 22

24530 Interview in dpth - societal impact 20JAN16 80

24540 Prepare final report 06JUL17 66

24550 Distribute results locally 06OCT17 22

24560 Publish results 24OCT17 20

16FEB12 1490