Bringing renewable energy to the electrical engineering undergraduate education and research at UPRM

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ortiz Rivera, Eduardo I ^a   Gonzalez Llorente, Jesus ^a   Salazar Llinas, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Behavioral models; Mentoring; Renewable energy simulation; Undergraduate research

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; BEHAVIORAL MODEL; CIRCUIT ANALYSIS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; ELECTRICAL MODELS; ENERGY SOURCE; ENERGY SYSTEMS; HARMFUL GAS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RENEWABLE SOURCES; RESEARCH EXPERIENCE; SIMULINK; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; STUDENTS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 77951490685     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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