Conference Session

Integrated Activities for Green Energy and Manufacturing Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

an opportunity to reinforce the classroom lessons on solar energy and toapply it in a real-life situation using the same equipment as in large scale solar installations thatare becoming more prevalent across the world. Students worked with suppliers andmanufacturers to acquire equipment and testing supplies, troubleshoot devices, and to betterunderstand how solar power is harnessed in large scale operations. The students came-up withtesting scenarios to test different aspects of the system, and designed a system that could testmany different variables including panel orientation, battery charging algorithm, and chargecontroller configuration. The team was given a maximum budget of $3,000 to spend on allaspects of the system, which include