Biography
Joshua M. Pearce received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He then developed the first Sustainability program in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and helped develop the Applied Sustainability graduate engineering program while at Queen's University, Canada. He currently is the Richard Witte Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan Technological University where he runs the Open Sustainability Technology Research Group. He was a Fulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair (2017-2018) and is a visiting professor of Photovoltaics and Nanoengineering at Aalto University as well as a visiting Professor Équipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs (ERPI), Université de Lorraine, France. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and poverty reduction. His research spans areas of electronic device physics and materials engineering of solar photovoltaic cells, and RepRap 3-D printing, but also includes applied sustainability and energy policy. His research is regularly covered by the international and national press and it is continually ranked in the top 0.1% on Academia.edu. He is the faculty advisor for the Michigan Tech Open Source Hardware Enterprise. He is the editor-in-chief of HardwareX, a journal dedicated to open source scientific hardware and the author of the Open-Source Lab:How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs.
Current teaching:
- ELEC-L3999: 3D Printing of Open Source Hardware for Science Wikiversity version
- MY4777/MY5777/EE4777/EE5777 Open-source 3-D printing
- MY5490/EE5490 - Solar Photovoltaic Science and Engineering
- Michigan Tech Open Source Hardware Enterprise
- MSE 5621 - 5622 Open Source Scientific Hardware: This course provides an introduction to the use of distributed digital manufacturing of open source hardware for scientific and engineering applications. The course outcome will be a design of an open hardware tool.
Research Interests
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My research focuses on open and applied sustainability, which is the application of science and innovation to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems. Specifically I am interested in exploring the way solar energy can be used to provide clean sustainable electricity through photovoltaic devices and how the sharing of open source hardware and software can create sustainable and equitable means of production (e.g. create open source appropriate technology and other free and open source hardware).
Current Editing and Boards
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- HardwareX - Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief CS=2.7
- 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing - Associate Editor IF=3.579
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Editorial Board Member. IF=12.110, CS=25
- Journal of Open Hardware - Editorial board
- Energies - Editorial Board IF=2.702
- Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing - Editorial Board
- Materials - Editorial Board IF=3.057
- Sensors - Editorial Board IF=3.275
- Sustainability Editorial Board IF=2.576
- Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments – Editorial Board IF=3.427, SC=5.4
- Designs - Editorial Board
Collaborating non-academic NPOs
- Open Source Ecology
- Field Ready
- Open Building Institute
- Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED)
- MakerNet Alliance
Completed Projects and Publications
Teaching
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Courses with a service learning component
I have used Appropedia to support the following courses:
- APSC100 - Engineering - First Year Project course
- MECH370 - Materials Processing
- Mech425 - Engineering for Sustainable Development
- MECH820 - Solar Photovoltaic Materials, Cells and Systems Engineering
- MECH836 - Applied Sustainability and CMAS801
- MY3701 - Introduction to Semiconductor Materials Science and Engineering
- MY4777/MY5777/EE4777/EE5777 Open-source 3-D printing
- MY5970 - Solar Hacking
- MY5490/EE5490 - Solar Photovoltaic Science and Engineering
- PH261 - Physics of Energy and the Environment
- PH254 - Introduction to Nanotechnology
The International Journal for Service Learning
I am the manuscript editor for the IJSLE. The International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (IJSLE) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal offered free, semi-annually, over the World Wide Web. The Journal welcomes manuscripts based on original work of students and researchers with a specific focus or implication for service learning in engineering, engineering entrepreneurship in service, or related service learning pedagogy.
With an increasing number of individuals and institutions of higher education becoming involved in service learning and entrepreneurship in service learning, the IJSLE is an invaluable resources for students, faculty, practicing engineers and local communities. With articles relating to the latest design and research pertinent to local communities, the faculty-reviewed articles in each issue provide the reader with timely information related to:
* Engineering Design Projects as Service * Engineering Research Projects as Service * Engineering-Related Entrepreneurial Projects as Service * Pedagogy in Engineering-Related Service Learning
If you are contributing to Appropedia - you should seriously consider submitting a manuscript once your project has come together
Resources for Educating Children
- http://www.ixl.com/ math language arts k-12
- https://www.khanacademy.org/
- http://code.org/
- https://ohs.stanford.edu/ online school, from 7th grade onwards.
- https://www.wikiversity.org/
https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories Approedia-171,460 feb 2018, 178,969 3.28.2018, 209,689 9.23.2018