Sharing Solar: A Solar Sculpture Project

A multidisciplinary team of ECE, ME and Art students making solar energy beautiful.

Team Members

From left to right:

Carolyn Cressman - Electrical Engineering

Jose Jerez - Electrical Engineering

Carla Majluf - Computer Engineering

Ruben Vazquez - Computer Engineering

Our Project

This project is a collaborative effort between the Art, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at University of Central Florida to design a solar sculpture for our sponsor Orlando Utilities Commission. We created a 1/8th scale working model that implements the lighting, solar power system, the collection of energy production data, and the display of said data on a web app. In addition to this we created a dual axis solar tracker with Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), stepper motors, motor drivers, and light sensors.

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Our Sponsor

This project was sponsored by the Orlando Utilities Commission.

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