opportunities for undergraduate laboratory instructionAbstract:This paper outlines a two-semester senior engineering design project that was carried out tostudy a moderately well-defined chemical reaction involving sodium borohydride in aqueousconditions to generate hydrogen for fuel cell applications. Sodium borohydride hydrolysis hasbeen studied extensively since the early 1940’s as a promising hydrogen storage material, whichprovides a content-rich study area for engineering design coursework and undergraduatelaboratory experiences related to energy, hydrogen, and energy storage potential. Throughout thetwo-semester project design course, a two-student engineering team carried out literature reviewsand bench work that lead them to investigate
, Washington, June 14-17, 2015.3. P. L. Hirsch, J.A.W. Linsenmeier, H. Davidsmith, J. M.T. WALKER, “Enhancing Core Competency Learning in an Integrated Summer Research Experience for Bioengineers,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 391-401, October 2005.4. R. L. Morley, J. J. Havick and G.S. May. “An evaluation of the Georgia Tech summer undergraduate program of research in electrical engineering for minorities,” Journal of Engineering Education. 87(3): pp. 321– 325, 1998.5. A. J. Soares, D. Kobelo, and C. Li, “Senior Design Projects Using Basic-Stamp Microcontrollers,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, June 14-17 2015.6. A. S. Khan, W. Herner, C. Olejiczak, A. Rybarski, and K. Ahmed, “Sensor-based
ateam. The MRP roles include the team and students, engineering expert(s), the client(s) andbusiness expert(s). There are strong evidences form the literature that including the soft skillssuch as management, entrepreneurship and leadership can boost the retention and enrollment inengineering programs. Entrepreneurship education has been found to boost GPA and retentionrates of the engineering students, provides the students with the skills and attitudes needed toinnovatively contribute to the existing organizations and pursue their own ventures, and has thepotential to address current and anticipated workforce demands. We strongly believe that byintegrating entrepreneurship into engineering courses, specifically in the ones that are
4.37 4.57 Q 18 4.05 4.43 Q 19 4.84 4.43 Q 20 4.79 4.71 Q 21 4.16 4.43 Q 22 4.05 4.57 Average 4.4 4.5Q 1: I attended class regularly.Q 2: I prepared for class (e.g., assigned readings, online materials, etc.).Q 3: I completed the assigned work for the class.Q 4: I asked the instructor for help/guidance when I needed it.Q 5: The textbook(s) and other course resources enhanced my understanding of
thisevent came, in part, from Suffolk’s partners in the power industry who are in need of recentgraduates to replace their aging workforce, and from the knowledge that new and renewablesources of electric power are becoming more important, and that the current aging system ofpower generation and delivery needs to be overhauled. This event is part of an NSF S-STEMgrant awarded on January 1st 2014 to Suffolk’s EE program to encourage students from BostonPublic High Schools, who are predominantly from underrepresented groups, to study EE and tobe exposed to the power industry. The event was held the day after spring semester finalexaminations, allowing Suffolk EE students to present demos of renewable electricitygeneration, to lead high school
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. She is passionate about active learning and strategies to improve electrical and computer engineering education, as well as increasing the number of women in engineering. She is a PI on an NSF S-STEM ECE Scholars grant, which provides scholarships and academic support to finan- cially needy and academically strong transfer students. Dr. Miguels teaching interests include MATLAB, circuits, linear systems, signal processing, digital image processing, and data compression. Dr. Miguel is a member of the IEEE, ASEE, SWE, and Tau Beta Pi. She has held several officer positions within the American Society for Engineering Education (Campus Representative, 2012-2013 ECE Division Chair, and 2013-2015 Chair Elect of the ASEE
on4:30pm Projects Figure 1. FREEDM M Young Scho olars program m at Arizona S State Universiity.1. Class Time The class time consists prim marily of interactive preseentations givven by the grraduate studdentmentors, with an occasional guesst lecture. The presentattions are maiinly concernned with thetopics off electrical en nergy and renewables including: elecctricity and ppower system ms, overview w ofrenewablle energy, ph hotovoltaics (PV), solar thermal, winnd
. Tooran Emami, United States Coast Guard Academy Tooran Emami is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. She received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Dr. Emami was an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University for three semesters. Her research interests are Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controllers, robust control, time delay, compensator design, and filter design applications, for continuous-time and discrete-time systems.Mr. David Fournier, United States Coast Guard Academy Holds a BA and MS from Southern New
proposals and the Round 2 review resulted in fouradditional funded projects. As seen below the topics span several areas of renewable electricitygeneration. Grants were awarded to four year universities, two year community/technicalcolleges, and four/two year partnerships.Round 1 Grants:1. Universal and Scalable Smart Grid Power Converter (V. Winstead and S. Vietor)This project is intended to incorporate concepts from “smart grid” interfacing and protocols,trans active energy (TE) and universal interconnect hardware into a single scalable configurablecomponent. In other words, we intend to develop a device which is configurable (in firmware)and is capable of connecting electrically to a variety of power generation and energy storagedevices (i.e
Engineering program was conducted.II. IntroductionIn the early 2000’s, forecasters believed the United States was on the verge of a nuclearrenaissance. Tremendous growth in the energy industry was expected at that time since theaverage age of the nuclear power sector was 48 years of age which ranked among the oldest inany US industry 1. Many colleges and universities geared up new programs with help fromfederal agencies such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department ofEnergy (DOE). Over 40 college programs across the country were developed to create a pipelineto help fill the shortage of workers 2. The majority of the programs were two-year Associatedegree programs designed for entry level positions in nuclear fields. At that
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hybrid power systems and microgrids. The topics covered include the needs andbenefits of distributed generation, wind and solar energy potential assessment, models of energystorage devices, power electronic interfacing, life cycle assessment and cost analysis, and gridintegration issues. The benefit of such broad coverage is to give the students a comprehensiveview of the various RES components. Each student picks one area to explore further by studyingand presenting one or two research paper(s) to the class as well as doing an end-of-term projectdeveloping a written report and presenting the results of their work to the entire class.The objective of this course is to present and introduce the students to various renewable energytopologies and
9780824792374 • Turan Gonen, Electric Power Distribution Engineering, Third Edition, CRC Press, ISBN 9781482207002 • J. Duncan Glover, Thomas Overbye, Mulukutla S. Sarma, Power System Analysis and Design, Sixth Edition, Cengage, ISBN 9781305636200 • Luces M. Faulkenberry, Walter Coffer, Electrical Power Distribution and Transmission, Prentice Hall, ISBN 9780132499477 • James Momoh, Smart Grid: Fundamentals of Design and Analysis, 1st Edition, Wiley, ISBN 978-0470889398While students were only required to purchase the Kersting textbook, material for the coursewas derived from all of the supplementary textbooks as well. However, any book assignmentsor book examples came from the required textbook.Lecture
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) Benchmark: Sentence(s) Answer Sankey Diagram 2 Final Exam: Multiple Choice & Sentences Answer 3 Policy Goals and Impacts Sentence(s) Answer (Sustainability Analysis) Earth-Sun Interaction Sentence(s) Answer 33.2. Final exams: energy-sun interactionAnother method used to assess the learning outcomes of the Energy Systems & Sustainabilitycourse and to help determine student
refine the systemspecifications. Table 1 shows the finalized PVEPS system requirements. Table 1 PV emergency power system requirements ID Requirements 1 Power generated by solar panel(s) shall be stored in lead-acid AGM batteries 2 The batteries shall be able to power the following devices for two consecutive days: 1. Two White LED lights (continuous) 2. The suction machine (used 3 hrs. each day) 3. Two “car-charging sockets” for charging 12VDC appliances (used 3 hrs. each day) 4. One 5V DC USB charger for charging cell phones and tablets 3 The system shall contain on/off switches to individually control each appliance
traveling and resulted in short reportsafter travel.Site visit reports: Participants completed reports for each site visited. These forms consisted offive question prompts and resulted in formative, reflective reports that captured their experiencesat each visit and also acted as informal journals that they could use in the future to identifytrends, concepts and/or innovations that they found notable. The reports also served as a recordfor their continued investigation into their individual inquiry question(s).Sector Reports: Upon return, participants were paired up on teams based on their specific areaof renewable energy expertise to complete sector reports which compared and contrasted theGerman and U.S. energy industry, educational pathways
Paper ID #11809Revitalizing an Electromechanical Energy Conversion CourseThomas E McDermott P.E., University of Pittsburgh Thomas E. McDermott is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, with over 30 years of industrial experience in consulting and software development. His research interests include electric power distribution systems, renewable energy, power electronics, electromagnetics, and circuit simulation. Tom is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and an IEEE Fellow. He has a B. S. and M. Eng. in Electric Power from Rensselaer, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia
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their practice as an educator or renewable energy expert. Thesequestions guided the participants’ informal research while traveling and resulted in short reportsafter travel.Site visit reports: Participants completed reports for each site visited. These forms consisted offive questions prompts and resulted in formative, reflective reports that captured theirexperiences at each visit and also acted as informal journals that they could use in the future toidentify trends, concepts and/or innovations that they found notable. The reports also served as arecord for their continued investigation into their individual inquiry question(s).Sector Reports: Upon return, participants were paired up on teams based on their specific area ofrenewable energy
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andgradually transform the curricula in its entirety, thus paving the way for a new generation ofprofessional engineers and an exciting innovative future.AcknowledgmentsThis work was partially supported by the Syracuse University College of Engineering andComputer Science Faculty Excellence Award and the National Science Foundation under grantCBET-1403405. Page 26.505.17References1. S. D. Sheppard, K. Macatangay, A. Colby, W. M. Sullivan, Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2008).2. E. J. Coyle, L. H. Jamieson, W. C. Oakes, Integrating Engineering Education and Community Service
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-transient data, the function starts from time0 s, and positively increments while comparing individual values of Va, Vb, and Vc until the first positive zerocrossing is determined for each voltage. The times for each of these first crossings are saved. Because every cycle has256 data points, the end point for the sample is determined by adding 511 to the time index. The end times for eachvoltage are also saved. For the post-transient data, the function starts from the maximum time (end of the waveform), 4instead of the beginning of the waveform. Again, individual values are compared, this time while negativelyincrementing. Once the first crossing is determined, the end of the sample is found