Teaching Renewable Energy Engineering with Gifs and Memes: An Innovative Approach to Education

The new generation has been influenced by social media. They spend hours reading funny or related memes and videos. In addition, they communicate through gifs and stickers to better convey their feelings. In this article, a creative method based on memes and gifs is introduced. This method suggests a way to link between media and ways of conveying emotions and a scientific subject. This proposed method can be used for teaching and also evaluating students. The proposed method is used to teach electrical concepts and renewable resources. This method has been done in energy and mechanical engineering classes. Some examples of scientific points that were implemented in the class or received in the students' answers are introduced. The experience of performing in the class shows the attractiveness of the proposed method for the new generation.