Conference Session

Diverse Issues in Renewable Energy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Slowinski , M.Ed., CREATE NSF-ATE; Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. college graduates and the global nature of the renewable energyindustry requires an exploration of how to incorporate a global perspective in STEM curricula,and how best to develop faculty to make these changes to existing teaching practices.To understand how other nations have met similar challenges and to expand awareness of theglobal renewable energy sector, a cohort of accomplished renewable energy educators fromacross the United States, representing a mix of disciplines, institutional roles and experiencelevels, undertook two learning exchanges to Australia/New Zealand (2013) andGermany/Denmark (2014). Funded by the National Science Foundation Advanced TechnologicalEducation Program, the learning exchanges provided opportunities for the

Conference Session

Innovative Projects in Energy Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Jeremy Keith Posey Sr.

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer and 17 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In

Conference Session

Sustainable-energy Education: Lessons Learned

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University; Jeremy Jessup, George Mason University; Lenna Storm, George Mason University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

is currently a graduate student focused on environmental engineering. He received a grant to study the incorporation of biodiesel as a sustainable fuel alternative at GMU. He received the faculty appreciation award for academic excellence in 2008. He has accepted employment with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and will be working on hydropower projects.Lenna Storm, George Mason University Ms. Storm is the Susainability Coordinator at George Mason University. She is currently pursuing her MS degree in Environmental Science and Policy from GMU. Ms. Storm is researching the adoption of green roofs on college campuses. She is an active member of the Association for the Advancement

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

involved biology. The biology professor is particularly knowledgeable andpleasant person to work with. Also, their sponsor interactions included interactions with abiologist. During the second project, the students were disinterested in performinginterdisciplinary work, yet they functioned on an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students,that included both biologists and chemists. Some of the interactions of that interdisciplinaryteam were strained however. The mechanical engineering students did not communicate wellwith the chemistry student. The communication was so bad that mechanical engineeringstudents believed that they could have completed the same tasks better without that student andwith the chemistry professor’s guidance. Since the

Conference Session

Diverse Issues in Renewable Energy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Agustin Irizarry-Rivera P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Cecilio Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico-INESI; Marla D. Perez-Lugo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayguez Campus

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

held in January 2012. These two persons were eventually elected, in a very contentious election, and began their terms as representatives of the public on June 2012. Part of that experience is described in a latter section.IV. University Courses ITEAS policy framework (capacity building and policy horizon broadening), and the experiences in the Energy Roundtable enabled the engineering professors (Dr. O’Neill and Dr. Irizarry) to integrate policy into their teaching. A graduate course on renewable energy served as an initialplatform to introduce engineering students to energy policy issues. Although the course mainlydeals with energy sources and technologies, it also includes a discussion of interconnection issues.Interconnecting variable

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

about possibly offering a bachelors degree in alternativeenergy engineering or a degree in energy engineering. Administrators at Lawrence Tech alsoinquired about the possibility. Faculty members in the program have remained cautious,however, about starting a new degree in Alternative Energy Engineering, or even a degree in themore generalized field of Energy Engineering. Bass and White note that “As a metric for howunderserved energy engineering is in the United States, consider ABET does not list "energyengineering," or any permutation thereof, as a separate discipline.”15 Lawrence Tech has seen aninterest from its students regarding such a degree. Industry, however, does not have anyfamiliarity with what constitutes such a degree. Would such

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 2: Solar Track

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tessa Veurink, University of Pittsburgh; Bradley G. Fox, University of Pittsburgh; Sabrina R. Helbig, University of Pittsburgh; Duncan Penizotto, University of Pittsburgh; Robert J. Kerestes, University of Pittsburgh; Brandon M. Grainger, University of Pittsburgh

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #33250Resilience in the Home Office Through a Scaled-down MicrogridMs. Tessa Veurink, University of Pittsburgh Tessa Veurink graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electric Power. Her interests include renewable energy, sustainability, and electric power.Mr. Bradley G. Fox, University of Pittsburgh Bradley Fox is an electrical engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is interested in power electronics and enjoys learning about a variety of other disciplines as well. He plans to start his career in industry in 2021 and grow as a

Conference Session

Solar, Wind, and Novel Energy-System Initiatives

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Jill Humston, University of Northern Iowa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2009-2403: MSETI-AREA: MATH-SCIENCE-ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYIN IOWA ON APPLIED RENEWABLE ENERGY AREASRecayi "Reg" Pecen, University of Northern Iowa Recayi “Reg” Pecen, Ph.D. Dr. Pecen holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S. in Controls and Computer Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming (UW, 1997). He has served as graduate assistant and faculty at the UW, and South Dakota State University. He is currently an associate professor and program coordinator of Electrical and Information Engineering Technology program at the University of Northern Iowa. He serves on UNI

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

cadre of graduates who value experimentation as an essential and natural part of solving engineering problems; 4) to prepare students for industry as well as advanced courses and research and development oriented careers;Hardware DescriptionThe students are given a tutorial that leads them through the experiments, describing thehardware apparatus and the actions to be performed in each step. The hardware apparatusused in this experiment, shown in Figure 1, consist of: 1) a DC-DC switch-mode powerstage converter9, 2) a 14-bit PCI Data Acquisition Processor (DAP 840/103)10, 3) atermination board (MSTB 010-06-C1Z) [15], 4) a Pentium III 550-MHz personalcomputer (PC) with Windows NT 4.0, and 5) a micro-controller (PIC16F877)11

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Bruce Allen Peterson, Minnesota State Energy Center of Excellence

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

for high school faculty to bring energy training into their classrooms, developing programming around emerging energy technologies, promotion of career awareness activities, and working on diversity challenges in the energy industry workforce. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Managing a Multi-Institution Block Grant for Renewable Electricity Research1. BackgroundThe Renewable Development Fund (RDF) was originally established in 1994 by the State ofMinnesota. Funds are provided by Xcel Energy ratepayers in exchange for an allowance to storespent nuclear fuel from two nuclear generating plants in the state. The RDF funds are intended“to increase renewable energy market penetration

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Ian Gravagne, Baylor University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

conservation (i.e. the first law of thermodynamics) and efficiency. This seminar also addressed the topics for transition from high school to college. Students wrote a report about some aspect of energy usage, production, etc. that interests them. Energy Production – This semester will expose students to energy conversion from fossil fuel, nuclear, solar, thermal, photovoltaic, fuel cell, hydro, alternative fuel, and wind sources. Students will explore how energy is used in sectors such as transportation, housing/HVAC, electronics, agriculture, and industry. Students will also write and research an energy-related scientific hypothesis, e.g. fuel derived from a given source will create net-positive

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

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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

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 3: Education Track

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University; Alexandru Belu; Zhengmao Ye, Southern University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

in the 21st century is one of the primary goals ofuniversity educators [1-5]. Enabling students to practice self-learning, to find solutions to designproblems that are sustainable, helping them recognizing that they are part of community are justa few of our educational goals. Energy and power engineering education has undergonesignificant changes over the last decades, together with an increased student interests into suchengineering programs. The issues surrounding this theme are also receiving significant interestsform faculty and quite often administration. Today electrical energy industry professionals arerequired to have significant techno-scientific capabilities, deep interdisciplinary understandings,and soft engineering skills, such

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

features of the e-learning platform are the delivery of information and data, inelectronic format as didactical units e.g. courses, lessons and checking of the training results2.With this server-client approach our platform remains an open system for implementing newinformation in the future. The information – study area is adaptive to the user and the teachingcontents are listed in a tree structure, which enables easier orientation of the student during thestudying. The control and guidance of the students through the teaching contents has beenrealized using Petri Networks24,30-32. Each project user is able to log on to the server by simplyusing browsers e.g. Mozilla, Explorer or Netscape.Our system can be used for study of theoretical models