Career Profiles in Hydropower

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Learning Goals

Students will:

  1. Identify a variety of career types available in the hydropower industry.
  2. Explore skills that are used on a daily basis by different types of professionals in the energy sector.
Materials List

Classroom Supplies

  • Computers for watching career profile videos.

Important Links

This lesson appears as a part of the following:
Water Power Implementation Toolkit

This is a teacher recommended resource.

This collection of day-in-the-life professional profiles and case studies is available through the National Renewable Energy Lab’s OpenEI portal to help educators learn and teach about hydropower. Careers highlighted include: Operation and Maintenance Manager, Compliance Specialist, Hydropower Biologist, and Lineworker