Self-Oriented Solar Mirror

This paper provides an overview of the development of a self-oriented solar mirror (SOSM) project within the European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). While the main objective of the EPS@ISEP project-based educational framework is to foster teamwork, communication, interpersonal and problem solving skills in an international, multidisciplinary engineering environment, the goal of the SOSM is to track and reflect the Sun radiation onto a pre-defined area. In the spring of 2017 a group of five students chose to develop a proof-of-concept domestic SOSM called SUNO. The students undertook project supportive modules in Ethics, Sustainability, Marketing and Project Management together with project coaching meetings to assist the development of SUNO. The paper details this process, describing the initial project definition, the research of current technologies, the designing, the manufacturing and testing of the SUNO prototype, and discusses what the students gained from this learning experience.

Keywords

European Project Semester Solar Mirror Solar Power ProjectBased Learning Collaborative Learning Sustainability

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10765

Citation

Simons, Anna; Latko, Jan; Saltos, José; Gutscoven, Margot; Quinn, Raymond; Benedita Malheiro; Maria Cristina Ribeiro; Manuel Silva; Fernando José Ferreira; Paulo Ferreira; Pedro Guedes. Self-Oriented Solar Mirror, Trabalho apresentado em 5th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2017), In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality - TEEM 2017, Cádiz, Spain, 2017.