Developing Energy Efficiency and Advanced Decision-Making Course

In today's world we are facing an explosion of population worldwide.This is "the major underlying force on environmental degradation and a threat to sustainable use of natural resources" 1.As a result, there is a need for much more energy to accommodate these demands.At the same time, the world is facing the problem of extreme impact of these demands on the nature and environment and is in need for developing methods of satisfying these demands.Engineers must become prepared to design and build more products while consuming less resources including energy.This puts additional burdens on the engineering and engineering technology (EET) schools to develop courses and programs to make the concept of energy and energy efficiency more understandable to their students and train and send their graduates to industries well prepared to confront shortage of energy and threats of global weather changing simultaneously.To help reaching these targeted outcomes, it is essential for all the EET schools to develop energy and energy efficiency courses in which students not only become familiar with different industries energy consuming systems and how efficient these systems currently are, but also it is very important to expose their students to whereabouts of opportunities to improve overall system energy consumption.These students also need to become familiar with state-ofthe-art research methods and tools, which can help them to investigate these systems and opportunities meaningfully and effectively.These courses should be introduced and taught in early semesters of students' undergraduate enrollment to work as a guiding light throughout the rest of their curriculum to be most effective.In this paper authors discuss the need for developing an interdisciplinary course that targets educating EET undergraduate students in the fields of energy efficiency in different engineering systems and methods of advanced decision-making simultaneously. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education CollaborationCopyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education to develop a holistic view of this field of study.The following methods will then be discussed briefly in this section that will help students to develop their power of making proper decisions based on applying the presented tools: