Post by aggie2039 on May 19, 2022 22:55:46 GMT -5
While students at most universities are winding down their spring semesters, a cohort consisting of engineering students from North Carolina A&T State University and entrepreneurship students at UNCW’s Cameron School of Business are working hard to prepare a product to enter in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Marine Energy Collegiate Competition, which features seventeen teams from universities from all over the world.
2022 will be the second year that NC A&T and UNCW have formed a team to enter the competition. During this two-year stint, their efforts have been funded by NC IDEA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that seeks to develop and strengthen North Carolina’s economy.
For this year’s entry, the NC A&T students, led by Dr. Michael Atkinson, started from scratch in the fall semester to design a renewable power source that harnesses the power of the ocean itself. They determined that they could use different temperatures of ocean water to motivate a turbine, creating electricity.
the UNCW team, led by Dr. Vince Howe, has helped to find and target the right market for the product. Throughout the spring semester, the UNCW team met with local business leaders in the marine industries to test and hone their ideas, spanning from local oyster farmers to representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The past several months of designing, building, and honing their ideas, the Marine Energy Collegiate Competition cohort will conclude their work by presenting their business plan and prototype at the Department of Energy’s Water Power Week on May 25th.
www.wilmingtonbiz.com/insights/heather_mcwhorter/uncw_aandt_students_compete_for_blue_economy_prize/3356
2022 will be the second year that NC A&T and UNCW have formed a team to enter the competition. During this two-year stint, their efforts have been funded by NC IDEA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that seeks to develop and strengthen North Carolina’s economy.
For this year’s entry, the NC A&T students, led by Dr. Michael Atkinson, started from scratch in the fall semester to design a renewable power source that harnesses the power of the ocean itself. They determined that they could use different temperatures of ocean water to motivate a turbine, creating electricity.
the UNCW team, led by Dr. Vince Howe, has helped to find and target the right market for the product. Throughout the spring semester, the UNCW team met with local business leaders in the marine industries to test and hone their ideas, spanning from local oyster farmers to representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The past several months of designing, building, and honing their ideas, the Marine Energy Collegiate Competition cohort will conclude their work by presenting their business plan and prototype at the Department of Energy’s Water Power Week on May 25th.
www.wilmingtonbiz.com/insights/heather_mcwhorter/uncw_aandt_students_compete_for_blue_economy_prize/3356
