May 21 2010
In an effort to effectively harness solar power, students from Harvey Mudd College, California and students from BIT Mesra, have taken up a collaborative project for developing a solar energy storage system.
The team of students will create a mechanical system to harness and store solar energy.
A group of three BIT Mesra students Abhishek Sadany, Siddharth Murarka and Siddharth Menon will join with three Harvey Mudd College students Jennifer Lee, Hufasa Ahmed and Andrew Xue and a Harvey Mudd College professor Gordon Pickett for this project. The project will be guided by BIT Mesra teachers Anil Kishen and Arvind Kumar.
Initial work on the project will be conducted in BIT Mesra and additional exploration work will be carried out in California for a period of two months. Finally, the project will head back to BIT Mesra for the remaining work.
The project is currently being undertaken through the Harvey Mudd College’s Global Clinic Programme which allows such research projects for undergraduate students. This helps students learn about real-life engineering issues.
Conventional energy is non-renewable and the burning of which causes global warming. Hence, this project aims at finding sustainable ways of harnessing renewable power.
Source: http://www.bitmesra.ac.in/