CURENT’s summer programs – Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Research Experience for Teachers (RET), Young Scholars Program (YSP) and the middle school girls camp Adventures in STEM are now accepting applications. Dates for the programs are: REU: June 4 – Read more
The NSF/DOE Site Visit completed on Thursday, November, 16th in the Min Kao Building. The day completed with a student poster session highlighting graduate and undergraduate student research. The poster session also included posters from the summer programs – YSP Read more
On Tuesday, November 8th, Erin Wills demonstrated electricity activities at the ‘Science Playground’ as a part of Knox County Schools District-Learning Day for teachers (organized by stemspark). Mr. Wills demonstrated how to use home-made circuit kits in the classroom and Read more
During the SHPE Conference, Mr. Erin Wills and Mr. Camarillo met with over 200 students at the conference to discuss the opportunities at CURENT. The backgrounds of the people met were quite broad geographically, academically, and professionally. Some of the people Read more
The CURENT Open House was widely considered successful. Close to 60 undergraduate students attended with inquiries about undergraduate research and graduate studies in power systems, power electronics, and cyber-security. The majority of the faculty attended and approximately 10-15 CURENT undergraduates Read more
Students will explore electrical engineering and finding unit rate by building solar panel toy cars and racing them over two courses, calculating unit rate to compare speeds. Students will also explore why the angle of the solar panel makes cars Read more
After briefly learning about wind turbines and how they generate power for the grid, students will create their own windmills in class. Students will then apply ratio reasoning to figure out how many homes (on average) a windmill can power. How Read more
Students should have already been introduced to solving equations; this lesson is meant to further their understanding and contextualize giving real-life examples of when they would need to solve equations. This is a 1 day lesson. Student will be able Read more
Students will have to watch the video and read the online articles first to get an idea of how a wind turbine works, what kinetic energy, Betz Limit, power coefficient, wind speed, mass flow rate, energy flow rate, tip speed, Read more
Students will have to read the assigned articles and video first to get an idea of what a power factor, watt, and the power grid is. Next, they will conduct an experiment of three different light bulbs to determine what Read more