Methodology for the Design of Demonstrative Didactic Prototypes for the Teaching of Renewable Energies Based on Education for Sustainable Development ‘ESD’

Abstract Achieving sustainable development education is one of the challenges proposed to reach many countries by 2030, based on SDG4 [1] A case of interest is teaching for development of energy sustainability in educational institutions [2], where student learning was enhanced with demonstrative didactic prototypes. The development project of linkage with society ESD-ESPOL, professor and students of the careers of Engineering in Mechanics and Electronics in Automation are developing a project for training, Developing educational didactic material that allows learning in aspects of sustainability in the subject of renewable energy, to students at the secondary level. This work present objective the development methodology the design of didactic prototypes education. To achieve this goal, students have been developing the design and construction of demonstration didactic prototypes to teach renewable energy associated with solar thermal, photovoltaic, water, and wind. The engineering design process includes the form of the conception of the preliminary model to the development of detailed design that includes the movement of the equipment and data visualization that allows the beneficiary to interact with the prototype based on a working guide. As a result, the appropriate methodology of the process ESPOL students must carry out to develop the functional prototype and begin with the team staggering was determined.