Overview

This lesson is the culmination of our work over the semester. You will be finishing your Solar Design project proposals on behalf of your clients in their given locale. By this time, you should have received feedback from your peers on your draft outline. This week, we will refine that document into a formal proposal for the client, synthesizing the many aspects that have made up the goal of solar design: to maximize the solar utility for the clients/stakeholders in their given locale.

Good luck with your work this week, and please take advantage of the forum or email correspondence to help to refine your design concepts. Project design does not occur in isolation!

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

• compose a design project proposal that addresses the goals of solar design and engineering.

What is due for Lesson 12?

This lesson will take us one and a half weeks to complete. Please refer to the Course Calendar for specific time frames and due dates. Specific directions for the assignments below can be found in this lesson.

Questions?

If you have any questions about your proposal writing, please reach out to the course intructor. It will be important to meet the set deadline for the final deliverable to be sure the final grades are posted in timely manner.

Yellowdig Discussion

So far, you have been working individually, or with the feedback from a peer, to design a project proposal. This proposal has elements of solar resource assessment, system engineering, financial assessment, social and policy awareness, ecosystem services - hollistically combined in a sustainable approach to energy systems. If that seems like a lot for one individual to wrap their mind around, you're right!

In our last discussion activity of the semester, I would like you to post your dream team of integrative design. Imagine that you just started a small solar design firm. You now need to hire a team to help you build your company name by reputation of being highly reliable, economically competitive, and producing high-quality solar projects.

Post your thoughts on the Yellowdig Discussion this week. Do not forget to read everyone's posts and provide your feedback too.

Tagging

We have a couple of new topics added to Yellowdig menu to facilitate discussion over the final weeks of the semester. Also, feel free to revisit any previous topics, especially if your project building research provided you with some new insights or resources you'd like to share:

Grading and Deadline

These last two weeks of the semester are your last chance to contribute to the EME 810 Yellowdig Community and boost your participation grade. Each weekly point earning period ends on Friday. You can't go back and make things up - it is a live forum! Any activity you generate contributes to the current week grade only. Maximizing your score now (max 1350 per week) does help you offset missed weeks in the total semester score. Remember Yellowdig discussions will account for 15% of your final grade.

Thank you for your active participation in the community discussions this semester!

Summary

We have finally come to the conclusion of EME 810! Great work! In this semester, we focused on the major topics of project proposal development for solar energy conversion systems. We addressed engineering tasks, financial tasks, and broader social, ecological, and policy aspects in proposal development.

You have put in a lot of effort, and hopefully the study material and practical assignments in this course brought your understanding of solar energy to a new level. Congratulations!