Rice University
A Brighter Future: Education and Outreach for Small-Scale Concentrating Solar on Urban Brownfields
Topic: RTEPrincipal Investigator: Laura Schaefer laura.schaefer@rice.edu Rice University, This project will work to uncover and address the root cause of gaps in educational training opportunities in concentrating solar (CS) systems, with an emphasis on community integration. While there are scattered individual classes offered on the undergraduate and graduate level in 4-year institutions that touch on CS topics, many of these courses include only a brief CS overview or emphasize photovoltaics (PV) over CS in solar-focused units or courses.