Professor Rajeevan Amirtharajah
University of California Davis
Course Details
Description
There are three goals for this curriculum:
Sustainability focused lab
exercises
Hands-on experience
Project-based learning
Students
who enrolled in the course will learn MATLAB through solving
sustainable/renewable engineering related problems. Students will also gain
hands-on experience working with hardware (developed based on Arduino UNO) to
gather sunlight data. The course emphasizes topics in solar cell technology,
but other topics such as green building design and electric vehicles are also
briefly covered.
This
course targets lower division undergraduate students (however, some senior
students also enroll) in all engineering and scientific disciplines. The
pre-requisite for the course is only differential and integral calculus. No
computer science (programming) courses are required.
Important:
Although students are introduced to various topics in sustainable engineering,
the goal of the course is to teach engineering problem solving (and
how to use MATLAB to model and solve engineering problems) and not sustainable
engineering.
Project 1 from Winter 2012 -- Not
open ended. Specific tasks for students to complete. This version does not use
all data from the weather database below).
