Field Trip to Floating PV System
UC Merced students visit Healdsburg's Waste Water Treatment plant to see their floating solar panels.
UC Merced students visit Healdsburg's Waste Water Treatment plant to see their floating solar panels.
UC Merced's Solar Energy Association (SEA) learned how a solar oven is constructed and even on a partly cloudy day got to eat solar-oven-heated hot pockets.
SEA learned how solar cells work during a zoom meeting during the pandemic.
On March 16, 2019, Calteach and SEA sponsored a solar car race, hosting ~40 teams from local schools.
On April 29, 2018, SEA received the Outstanding New Student Organization leadership award. The organization faced many challenges in its first year, yet managed to continue bringing educational workshops and hands-on learning projects to UC Merced.
SEA successfully coordinated its first annual Energize Merced conference which brought faculty, students and many on-campus and outside organizations together to discuss the latest solar energy technologies as well as career opportunities in the renewable energy industry. Dr. Kurtz was one of the faculty members to present their research and knowledge with the Merced community.
The Solar Energy Association at UC Merced (SEA) is a solar-project-based organization, with ongoing projects, workshops, info sessions, and more. SEA strives to educate and prepare the community for a clean energy future. By being a project based organization, SEA hopes to give students a chance to gain hands on experience that they are sometimes unable to obtain in a classroom. Students will have the opportunity to gain skills such as learning how to write proposals, using tools they haven’t worked with before, and working in teams. If you are interested, please contact Briana Aguilar at baguilar28@ucmerced.edu.
The MRS Chapter brings together students interested in Materials Science.
Contact: skurtz@ucmerced.edu