COURSE

SEEN5150

Kinetic Energy Harvesting and Conversion

Function Hub / Sustainable Energy and Environment · 3 Credits

The course will discuss kinetic energy harvesting devices and systems, including: Principles of energy harvesting from wind, wave, water flow, vibration, and human motion; Architectures and design; Mechanism, electromechanical modeling and analysis of electromagnetic, piezoelectric, triboelectric, electrostatic generators; Lab experiments; Wind turbines and fluid-structure interaction; Fundamentals of vibration; Control and power conditioning circuits; Performance evaluation and optimization; Potential applications and sensing.