Laboratory Development for a CCLI Course on PV Engineering

Hirak C Patangia

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Conference: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Publication Date: June 23, 2013
Start Date: June 23, 2013
End Date: June 26, 2013
ISSN: 2153-5965
Conference Session: Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects I
Tagged Division: Energy Conversion and Conservation
Page Count: 13
Page Numbers: 23.844.1 - 23.844.13
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--19858
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/19858
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Hirak C Patangia University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Dr. Hirak Patangia is a professor of Electronics and Computer in the College of Engineering and Information Technology with teaching responsibilities in both Engineering Technology and Systems Engineering. He has served the university in various administrative positions including interim dean, associate dean, and department chair before returning to full time teaching and research. He has involved undergraduates in his research extensively and many of his publications include undergraduates as coauthors. He was the first recipient of an NSF research initiation grant (now CAREER Award) at UALR. He has a strong grant funding record and in 2011, he received funding from NSF for curriculum development in the area of Photo-voltaic (PV) Solar Energy. The project involves developing exemplary course modules and innovative laboratory modules for adaptation at other schools for undergraduate/graduate teaching and research. Recently, he completed three projects for Arkansas Highway and Transportation department related to highway lighting using solar energy. He established a commercial PV system with solar panels on the rooftop of ETAS building for teaching and research with funding from Arkansas Energy Office. With NSF funding (2001), he developed a project based freshman engineering course for engineering and other university students who want to explore engineering as a career path or for personal enrichment. He has written a textbook and a laboratory manual for the course ‘Introduction to Electronics and Electrical Systems: A PBL Approach’. He is the first author of more than 100 refereed research publications in international journals, symposia, and conferences and has chaired several international conferences. He holds two patents. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence at UALR including Donaghey Outstanding Teacher award. He has also received recognition for research excellence from the chancellor and college. His research interest is in the general area of signal processing (analog/digital) and he is working on new approaches in inverter design and solar controller to improve efficiency of solar energy conversion. He received the bachelor’s degree with honors from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Canada, all degrees in Electrical Engineering. He is a registered PE in the State of Arkansas, a life member of IEEE, branch counselor for IEEE UALR chapter, current chair of student activities for Arkansas section, and served the section as president for two years.

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Laboratory Development for a CCLI Course on PV Engineering AbstractWith energy cost rising and the dangers of climate change due to energy-relatedgreenhouse effect, there has been a great national interest in renewable energy. Amongthe clean and green power sources, the photovoltaic solar power has the potential tosupply a significant fraction of electrical energy need. With the nation’s focus onrenewable energy and sustainability, people are paying serious attention to alternateenergy and this enthusiasm must be carried on to undergraduate engineering education.With this in mind, a CCLI Type I proposal was submitted to NSF under the title”Development of Novel Learning materials for Green Energy Education Centered arounda PV Test Station”. The proposal was funded in August 2010. The goal of the project isto develop expemplarary learning materials and laboratory modules for PV engineering atthe undergraduate/graduate level to meet the challenge of alternate engineeringeducation. The course learning materials will be integrated with hands-on laboratoryexperience. The paper will discuss the novelty of the laboratory facilities, the equipmentprocured, and the laboratory experiments/projects to follow the course modules.

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Patangia, H. C. (2013, June), Laboratory Development for a CCLI Course on PV Engineering Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19858