The Sustainable Transportation Education Program (STEP) is a pre-college program with the FREEDM Systems Center, the College of Engineering and North Carolina State University. STEP is a program that educates middle and high school students on sustainable transportation and the shift towards electrification of transportation. The program provides teacher training and curricula on electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Smart Grid, alternative fuels, wide bandgap semiconductors, and careers in science, engineering, and technology while providing application to the automotive and supporting infrastructure. The STEP curricula is a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) based program that includes problem-solving, critical thinking, and inquiry-based learning with relevance to real world issues.
The funding for this program has been generously provided by Duke Progress Energy.
The team includes:
Dr. Bill DeLuca, Department of STEM Education, Technology Engineering and Design Education Program
Ms. Terri Kallal, University Program Specialist
Mr. Erik Schettig, Engineering Educator
Dr. Nasim Lari, Research Assistant
STEP at NC State University 