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Teaching @
ME 5103: Thermal Environmental Engineering
Professor: Uwe Kortshagen
A significant area of potential
for energy transition lies in heating and cooling buildings. In Thermal Environmental Engineering, students learn how to perform thermal modeling
of buildings — simulations that
predict how the temperature in a
building will vary depending on
room, season, and time of day.
They also study HVAC systems, solar energy, indoor air quality, and more, including agrovoltaics. Agrovoltaics combines photovoltaics — or the conversion of light into energy — with agriculture in order to increase the overall efficiency of land use. Kortshagen incorporates his research on agrovoltaics into the course, showing students how you can create semitransparent solar windows that optimally utilize sunlight to both generate photovoltaic electricity and grow crops underneath them, optimizing the production of solar electricity and crop growth.
2021-2022 Graduate Teaching Fellows
Congratulations to ME PhD candidates Jeremy Simmons and Ankit Saini, this year’s ME Graduate Teaching Fellows! These fellowships are awarded to top ME students, allowing them to take the lead on a course they’ve assisted in previously and direct the educational experience themselves.
FELLOW:
Jeremy Simmons
MENTOR:
Prof. Zongxuan Sun
COURSE:
ME 3281
System Dynamics and Control
FELLOW:
Ankit Saini
MENTOR:
Prof. Matt Anderson
COURSE:
ME 3333 Heat Transfer
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