Wright State Renewable and Clean Energy Program

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Wright State Renewable and Clean

Energy Program

Professor Jim Menart

Director of Renewable and Clean Energy Program

Wright State University

Dayton, Ohio

Wright State Solar

Collectors

Solar Tower

Ohio Leads the Way:

Green Markets and Green Jobs

Green Energy Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

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Age of Program

• Renewable and Clean Energy Maters

Degree Program is 2 years old

• First starting taking students Winter

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Renewable Energy and Clean

Energy Program is Born

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Graduated First Students

• Our first students have

graduated

• A number of students are

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Enrollments

• Fall 2009 enrollments

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11 students attending classes

• Enrollments just prior to the start of Fall quarter

2010

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26 students attending classes

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Institutions Involved

• Wright State University

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Degree granting institution

• University of Dayton

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Degree granting institution

• Air Force Institute of Technology

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Provides courses

• Central State

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Provides courses

• DAGSI

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Benefits of Working Together

• More course offerings for students

• Develop collaborative research projects

• Hoping to be able to develop program into

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Program Curriculum Overview

• Core courses – 2 required

• Renewable and Clean Energy Courses – 3 required

• Math – 1 required

• Electives – 2 or 3 required

• Thesis – 12 credits required

• Non-thesis option available

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Do additional course work to replace thesis credits

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Project required

• Must take at least one course at WSU, UD, and

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RENEWABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY COURSES

Renewable Energy

WSU/ ME623 – Energy Conversion

WSU/ ME624 – Solar Engineering

WSU/ME626 – Wind Power

WSU/ ME750 – Photovoltaics

WSU/ME752– Hydrogen Energy

UD/MEE573 – Renewable Energy Systems

UD/MEE/CME 590 – Biomass and Biofuels

UD/MEE590 – Geothermal Energy

UD/MEE 590 – Wind Energy Engineering

CSU/ME699 – Hydropower

Clean Energy

WSU/ ME627 – Electrochemical Energy Systems

WSU/ ME628 – Fuel Cell Science and Technology

UD/MEE/CME524 – Fuel Cell Fundamentals and Technology

UD/MEE/MAT 507 – Energy Materials

AFIT/NENG620 – Nuclear Reactor Theory and Engineering

CSU/ME699 – Environmental Advances in Coal Based Power

Plants

Energy Efficiency

WSU/ ME642 – Vehicle Engineering

UD/MEE569 – Energy Efficient Buildings

UD/MEE571 – Design of Thermal Systems

UD/MEE 572 – Design for Environment

UD/MEE 578 – Energy Efficient Manufacturing

UD/MEE 590 – Energy Information Management

22 Renewable

and Clean

Energy

Courses

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Thesis and Non-Thesis Option

• Thesis option

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Must perform major research on a renewable and clean

energy topic

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Would like to gain national recognition in renewable and

clean energy research

• Non-thesis option

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Perform a 4 credit project

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Would like to have this project be an industrial internship

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Public Interest in Program

(Dayton Daily News Article)

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Public Interest in Program

• Associated Press story by Jim Hannah

•  IBTimes Australia.com, Australia •  MSN Money.com

•  Forbes.com

•  ABClocal.go.com

•  Coshocton Tribune, OH

•  Kypost.com, KY

•  WCPO, OH - 1 hour ago •  Chillicothe Gazette, OH

•  Bucyrus Telegraph Forum, United States •  Mansfield News Journal, OH

•  Zanesville Times Recorder, OH •  WCPO, OH

•  kypost.com, KY •  WKYC-TV, OH

•  Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV •  Education Week News, MD

•  Akron Beacon Journal, OH

•  WHIOtv.com, OH

•  Palladium-Item, IN

•  WTTE, OH

•  Dayton Daily News © 12/02/2008 •  WHIOTV.com © 12/03/2008 •  Akron Reporter © 12/02/2008 •  Dayton Daily News © 12/02/2008 •  Springfield News Sun © 12/02/2008 •  Xenia Gazette, OH - Nov 28, 2008

•  Public Radio

•  15 minute segment on SOCHE's television

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Jobs and Industry

• Some people estimate that the renewable

energy and the energy efficiency industries

will generate $4.5 trillion dollars of revenue

by the year 2030*

• Some estimate that as many as 40 million

Americans could be working in the renewable

energy and energy efficiency field by 2030*

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From “Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st_{Century,” by Roger Bezedek, done by}

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U.S. Fossil Fuel Potential

From a presentation at the Society of Military Engineers, Joint Pacific / NW Regional Training and Education Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 25, 2009, Michael Quah

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U.S. Energy Expenditures

From Energy Information Administration / Annual Energy Review 2008, http://

www.eia.doe.gov

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Cost of Oil

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U.S. Energy Production by Source

From Energy Information Administration / Annual Energy Review 2008, http:// www.eia.doe.gov

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Renewable Energy Costs

Levelized cost of energy in constant 2005$

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Source: NREL Energy Analysis Office (www.nrel.gov/analysis/docs/cost_curves_2005.ppt)

Wright State Renewable and Clean Energy Program