Conference Session

Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

applied in many fields of engineering. Motivated by the PBL teaching and learningapproaches, for the last three years our focus shifted towards incorporating renewable energyconcepts in our senior design project and power electronics courses in order to make them moreattractive to the students. To enhance the hands-on experience this course was restructured as a Page 25.518.9project based course. Students are required to analyze, design, simulate or built a completelyfunctional system, as an end-of-term project, selected from a list proposed by the instructor. Thegoal of the design project is to explore and enhance students understanding of the