Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship
ECEN 4000 – Fall 2006
This
course has been cancelled for Fall 2006.
If you are interested in taking this
course when it is offered in the future,
please
email Prof. Moddel at moddel@colorado.edu.
For Fall
2006, you may want to consider taking ECEN 4830/CVEN 4830,
Sustainable
Engineering Entrepreneurship and Business Practices, instead.
Section 880 – Call # 84051
Weds 6:30-9:15 pm
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Last update: 6 May 06
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Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship is a new course on
the technology and business of renewable energy. v
A
large component of the course is a team-based project, in which a
cross-disciplinary team analyzes a market, designs a product – and where feasible
builds a prototype. The proposed technologies may be developed further in a
senior projects course. v
Classes
will follow a seminar format, in which students participate in discussing the
course material, and invited speakers provide overviews of their fields of
expertise. v
The
course is part of the Honors program, and is open to students having a GPA of
3.3 or above. v
The
topics include renewable energy production, energy efficiency, and the
development of technology to facilitate these ends. The course blends
investigations of technology and business/market issues for students
interested in either area. It follows three threads: Ø
A
study of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and issues Ø
Development
of entrepreneurship opportunities and practice Ø
Student
group projects to initiate development of specific technologies and devices. v
The
renewable energy technologies include solar thermal, solar photovoltaics,
bioenergy, wind, nuclear, geothermal, hydrogen fuel cells, and other new
technologies. We investigate what it takes to make a technology both
technically feasible and marketable. - |
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General Course Materials Other Resources |
Links National
Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden |
Many of the materials for this
course are saved in .PDF format. These files can be read using Adobe Reader,
available free from the Adobe Acrobat web
site.