Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2017-2018)
Each year, students on this team partner with faculty on a year-long project to explore the breadth of issues that confront our society in its need for clean, affordable and reliable energy.
In previous years, projects have focused on hydrogen economics, urban water systems, electric vehicles, solar-powered vehicles, a biogas-powered generator and a green emergency power system.
In 2017-2018, the team identified, designed and prototyped new energy technologies, systems and approaches related to electronic grid resilience and emergency backup power. Team members addressed tradeoffs among technological design choices, environmental impacts, economic viability and other issues related to grid resilience.
Timing
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Team Outputs
Island Grid Resilience and Emergency Backup Power (poster by Taylor Charbonnet, Assanatou Cissé, Imani Dorsey, Melissa French, Dylan Kaiser, Meryl McCurry), presented at Bass Connections Showcase, April 18, 2018
Reflections
This Team in the News
Students Publish Energy Research in First Issue of Duke’s Visible Thinking Journal
Energy Consumption Analysis & Proposed Retrofit of a Duke University Dormitory
Duke Seniors Share What Was Most Meaningful about Their Bass Connections Experiences
See related teams, Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2018-2019) and Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2016-2017).