ETSU GearUp: The Design and Development of an Alternative Energy Greenhouse.

<p>East Tennessee State has partnered with David Crockett High School through the Federal Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. This year's project is an alternative energy greenhouse, which incorporates solar panels and a wind turbine. The focus is on familiarizing students with control systems including programmable logic controllers and power management. There is also an emphasis on the importance of green engineering.</p><p>The high school's students have been involved in the design and development of every aspect of the system. The development of the system is ongoing and will be further integrated into classes in the fall semester. This unique project requires the students to use classroom skills in real world circumstances. The hope is that allowing the students to be involved with projects such as this will encourage them to take higher math and science courses and pursue a college degree in the science and engineering fields.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MS (Master of Science)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Ghearing, Garth Ross

• GearUp
• greenhouse
• alternative energy
• Engineering
• Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1961

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-3313