Award Number

“ENERGY” Award 1609524

Lab Supervisor or Director

Rocio Alba-Flores

Principal Investigator

Valentin Soloiu

Document Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Presentation Year

2018

Abstract

Two middle school science teachers collaborated with Georgia Southern lab students to conduct research and experimentation on the benefits of utilizing a dual-axis solar tracking system to assess the amount of voltage received during various times of the day. A smaller similar dual-axis solar tracking system was designed and fabricated to utilize in the teachers’ middle school classrooms in the study of renewable energy and the engineering and design process.

Academic Unit

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Comments

This research was supported by NSF RET Award: 1609524

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Solar Tracker Poster NSF 2018 .pdf (789 kB)
Evaluating Solar Efficiency using a Dual-Axis Solar Tracker

Review of my UbD Plan.docx.pdf (45 kB)
Lesson Plan- Legoas

ENERGY Modified UbD Unit Design.pdf (304 kB)
Lesson Plan- Hart

Keywords

RET, NSF, Energy, Award 1609524, Solar energy, Renewable energy, Solar tracker

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Solar Tracking Sustainable Energy Education

Two middle school science teachers collaborated with Georgia Southern lab students to conduct research and experimentation on the benefits of utilizing a dual-axis solar tracking system to assess the amount of voltage received during various times of the day. A smaller similar dual-axis solar tracking system was designed and fabricated to utilize in the teachers’ middle school classrooms in the study of renewable energy and the engineering and design process.