Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Renewable Energy
NSF REU Site in Marine Renewable Energy (2020-2023)
麻豆精品视频 is hosting an intensive summer research program focused on science and engineering challenges related to the environmentally friendly creation of electricity from marine renewable energy resources.
Ocean currents off the Southeast U.S. represent an untapped energy source with a technically feasible power production potential estimated at 19 GW in U.S. waters. The time average energy densities in this ocean current reach 3.3 kW/m2 off Florida's east coast, several times greater than the most energy dense wind resource in the U.S. The on-campus research will focus on three technical challenges associated with harnessing this and other marine renewable energy resources: resource assessment, system design and operation, and environmental impacts.
Watch a brief interview with the director of this REU, related to ocean current energy production, .
- This paid, 10 week program focuses on training, mentoring, research and providing students with an exciting summer experience that will prepare them for graduate studies or careers in engineering and science.
- Participants will typically work 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day with an hour for lunch.
- Student development and training events held one to two times per week.
- Undergraduate researchers are paid $600 along with a $150 meal allowance, per week.
- Apartment-style dormitory housing will be provided to participants on FAU's Boca Raton or Harbor Branch campuses. Student project will dictate home campus.
- Suggestions for making the most out of your South Florida visit and Research Experience have been provided by the 2017 REU class.
- If Covid-19 restrictions/precautions do not allow for an in-person REU then we will offer a Virtual/Remote REU. For this program we will offer the $600/week stipend, but not the $150/week meal allowance or housing.
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We plan to offer 10 in-person research projects for the summer of 2023. |
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Resource Assessment and Environmental Impacts: Regional Oceanic Modeling Harvesting
Project Lead:Mingshun Jiang, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus:Harbor Branch Affiliated Department:Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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System Design and Operation: Benthic Microbial Fuel Cells
Project Lead:Jordon Beckler, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus:Harbor Branch Affiliated Department:Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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System Design and Operation: Applied Ocean Current Turbine Design
Project Lead:William Baxley, MS, PE Affiliated Home Campus:Harbor Branch Affiliated Department:Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center |
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System Design and Operation: Reliability-based and Control Co-Design of Marine Renewable Energy
Project Lead:Yufei Tang, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus:Boca Raton Affiliated Department:Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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System Design and Operation: Bio-Inspired Structures for Tidal Energy Harvesting
Project Lead:Oscar Curet, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus:Boca Raton Affiliated Department:Ocean and Mechanical Engineering |
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System Design and Operation: Numerical Simulation and In-Water testing of a Wave Energy Converter
Project Lead:James VanZwieten, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus: Boca Raton Affiliated Department:Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering |
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Environmental Impacts: Materials Research to Improve the Performance of Sensors used in Automated Animal Classification
Project Lead:Bing Ouyang, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus:Harbor Branch Affiliated Department:Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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Environmental Impacts: Understanding Sea Turtle Shell Strength and Resilience
Project Lead:Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D. Affiliated Home Campus:Boca Raton Affiliated Department:Biological Sciences |
Please utilize the NSF Education and Training Application tool to register after December 21st. This can be accessed
Application deadline:Feb. 23, 2023
Applicants will be notified of acceptance:On or before Mar. 2, 2023
Start date:May 30, 2023
End date:Aug. 4, 2023
For additional information please contact James VanZwieten at jvanzwi@fau.edu.
To print the NSF REU SNMREC Ocean Current Energy Flier, click
This REU Site is funded through the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program (2017-2019: EEC-1659468; 2020-2023: EEC-1950123)
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