Class Project / Group Projects / Individual Projects

Class Project

Install a 1 kW solar photovoltaic system on 3rd floor patio of Science Building 2,
including Internet monitoring of data.

Pictures / / Data (coming soon)

July 19 - panels installed on support racks

July 23 - panels interconnected and wired internally

July 30 - panels connected to the DC/AC inverter and data logger

Group Projects

(most of the files below are PowerPoint presentations, best viewed with Internet Explorer rather than Netscape)

Basic Science:
Solar Resources (John), Semiconductors (Makoto), Photovoltaics (Mark), Fuel Cells (Bill)

Implementation: (Tonaya, Jeffery, Michelle, Andrew)

Politics/Economics: (David, Jessica, Jesse)

Education:
High School Units (Katrina), Middle School Website (Brent)

Individual Projects

 Bill Andrianoff  Photovoltaic Cells - Durability
 Tonaya Craft  Solar Cooking
 Mark Gibson  Solar Power in Space
 Michelle Hayes  Solar Cars
 Jesse Jensen  Indigenous Solar Energy
 David Oury  International Solar Policies
 John Petkovich  Solar Utilities
 Jessica Davis  Oregon Solar Ordinances
 Jeffery Mooney  Portland Regulations for Solar Power
 Andrew Chernichenko  Solar Grid-Tie / DC-AC Inverters
 Makoto Imai  Photovoltaic Cells - Efficiencies
 Katrina Kemper  Grant Proposal for High School Alternative Energy Equipment
 Brent MacDermot  Middle School Lesson Plans & Website