This week will be very exciting at UNT's Discovery Park. A professional videographer is coming for the first of two sessions to film each of the engineering departments: Mechanical and Energy, Electrical, Materials Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Engineering Technology. The video will even feature some of the labs, classrooms, and undergraduate research projects.
Guess who will be narrating / sitting in class / being interviewed?
Yours truly :-)
Since I will be talking about my undergraduate research project in the video, I figured I should tell my blog-readers, too!
My project is called the North Texas Ambient Energy Monitoring Station, or NT-AEMS. A couple years ago, we put a weather station at Discovery Park with a bunch of equipment on it. Each piece of equipment measures something important, such as: wind speed, wind direction, soil moisture, the intensity of the sun, and rainfall.
The equipment is hooked up to a program on the tower that can be accessed wirelessly from the campus (it's a pretty long walk out there). All of the data that we collect over a period of 5 years will be analyzed to determine if Discovery Park would be a good location for solar panels or wind turbines.
Actually, because of NT-AEMS, UNT has received 3 large wind turbines to power our new football stadium!
It's great to be a part of a project that can have a huge impact on our future.
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