Engineering Technology Professor Sanjay Kaul along with Technical Asst. III Dan Cheney recently took advantage of a sunny fall day to bring the students in his Energy & Sustainable Practices course, along with different solar arrays, outside to measure the solar power they gathered. The course studies renewable and non-renewable forms of energy and sustainable practices including material selection, embedded energy, and material reuse. Students build and test both commercial and laboratory made devices and offers in-depth knowledge of energy supplies and sources. The course treats, in detail, topics as how rate of formation is slower than replacement, how energy sources could be best utilized and to identify the technology associated with energy resources and sustainability. The course studies renewable and non-renewable forms of energy and sustainable practices including material selection, embedded energy, and material reuse.
