The Discipline and the Energy Efficiency Laboratory (LEENER): Formation, Development and Transference of Technology for the Combat to the Energy Waste

This paper describes the main issues concerning the creation of the discipline and the new laboratory of Energy Efficiency, recently introduced in the Electrical Engineering curriculum at Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The conception, the establishment and results reporting are well documented and detailed. The pedagogical bases for the development of the subject are also explained, stressing the importance of including energy saving contents and awareness about energy wastefulness in the generic engineering curricula. Human and technological axes are both considered in the scope of this work. It is possible to conclude that, after subject completion, the students develop competence and improve skills to accomplish a number of energy saving projects, being able to propose actions or modifications intended to reduce the energy account and to provide installation compliance with standards. Those directions can certainly result in processes efficiency and modernization, since they are grounded on the use of up to date equipments and competitive techniques. By this way, the new engineers can play an important role in our power dependent world since they are able to disseminate a new and very opportune culture: the fight against electrical energy wastefulness.