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Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Wicks, Union College

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Paper ID #20574Developing Relevant and Practical Projects for a Senior Capstone ThermalFluids Design CourseDr. Frank Wicks, Union College Frank Wicks is a member of the mechanical engineering department at Union College in Schenectady. He has served all positions including chair of the Energy Conversion and Conservation Division. He is an ASME Fellow and frequent contributor to Mechanical Engineering magazine. He holds a BMarineE from SUNY Maritime College, a MSEE from Union College and PhD from Rensselaer and is a licensed professional engineer. He is the inventor of the Electricity Producing Condensing Furnace and also

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Western Carolina University; Trevor Parrish, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University

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Paper ID #19415A Capstone Project: Assessment of Energy Savings from Retuning of AirHandlersDr. Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Western Carolina University Bora Karayaka is an Assistant Professor at School of Engineering and Technology, Western Carolina University. He has worked as a Senior Engineer for smart grid and wireless communication industries for over ten years. He is currently responsible for teaching electric power engineering courses in the department. Dr. Karayaka’s research interests include power engineering education, ocean wave energy harvesting, identification, modeling and control for electrical machines

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Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

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and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and graduate

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Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David McDonald P.E., Lake Superior State University

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vehicle market in the world, with more than13 million motor vehicles sold in 2009. China used to be self-sufficient in oil supplies, but isnow estimated to import 40% of its oil consumption.(1) Other industrialized countries such asJapan, Germany, India and Brazil have seen tremendous growth in car sales.The history and projections of oil demand and production support the belief of the theory of peakoil at the present time. Basically, the theory predicts that oil production is at its peak in history,and will soon be below oil demand and possibly create an energy crisis.(1) Economic growth (1)relies heavily on energy supply. Emissions from fossil fuel are the primary source of GreenHouse Gas.(1) The emissions of a

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Michael Newton, John Brown University; Harrison Lee Hosteter, John Brown University; Ted Song, John Brown University

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to the current grid and how return-on-investment (ROI)could be analyzed. In particular, as there are not many students who have experienced thedemand charge that utilities charge to commercial customers, JBU has tried to use this system asa learning tool for students to realize the demand charge impact on the electricity cost.From 2014 to 2016, a team of undergraduate engineering students has developed a monitoringsystem that could track the PV generation and the power usage of the building. A primary goal ofthis project was to determine the installed PV system’s contribution to lowering the demandcharge. Since this measurement of contribution could not be determined without the real-timecollected data sets, the student team focused on

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Installation, Integration, and Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Saied Hemati, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Paper ID #20143Integrated Solar and Piezoelectric Renewable Energy ProjectDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow Herb Hess is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he teaches subjects in He received the PhD Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities.Dr. Saied Hemati, University of Idaho, Moscow Saied Hemati received the bachelor’s and master’s

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Using Real-World Examples

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian G. Belu, Southern University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

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proposed courses, undergraduate research projects, and seniordesign projects in the capstone courses were proposed and advised by the project investigators.Limited financial support was also available and provided, via grant funds for these projects. Atthird level several courses on green manufacturing, industrial energy systems, and renewableenergy were developed and offered. Along with course development, substantial efforts werededicated to update, equip, restructuring and add new experiments in the energy conversion,power electronics, green energy, manufacturing and industrial energy laboratories. In the sametime a set of seminars on the green energy, green design and manufacturing, hosted by bothparticipating institutions were scheduled every

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Energy Conservation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nitt Chuenprateep, University of the District of Columbia; Warren Orlando Abrams, University of the District of Columbia; Alicia Marshall, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia

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students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the MechanicalEngineering Departments for this project has proved fruitful and an extremely positiveexperience. A capstone project with a group of students with different backgrounds allowedstudents to utilize their varying skill sets. While there are many core courses in the engineeringcurriculum that are included in both the electrical and mechanical tracks, the divergence ofcourses and emphases between departments meant that the students needed to learn each other’sstrengths to determine who would be best at various aspects of the project. Electrical and computer engineering students were able to help compose the basis of the modeland determine the initial direction of the project. In

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Installation, Integration, and Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Kremer, Ohio University

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offered for the first time this year, and since only fivesenior energy engineering students were eligible for capstone design projects this year, weused overlap scheduling and included those five in the same room with the 65 students inthe ME capstone course. The capstone project for the energy engineering students wasproposed by the university’s building energy systems manager – review and update thebuilding energy models for four new campus buildings built with LEED certification inmind, identify discrepancies between actual building performance and model predictions,and develop engineering proposals for projects which provide a return on investment in lessthan 3 years and that would enable the buildings to meet or exceed the energy use goals