Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Experiences and methodology in a multidisciplinar energy and architecture competition: Solar Decathlon Europe 2012
Year:2014
Research Areas
  • Electric engineering
Information
Abstract
Solar Decathlon Europe is an international competition among universities which promotes interdisciplinary learning in engineering and architecture. Students from different disciplines participate in teams guided by several professors during a 29 month preparation period plus five weeks of on-site contest. The educational project involves designing, building and testing a solar energy house connected to the electrical grid with the strategy of maximizing self-consumption, supported by bioclimatic technologies and maintaining a low environmental footprint. It culminates in a on-site contest in which teams must assembly the house themselves, test it with ordinary real life tasks and finally disassembly it. The event has also a divulgative aim, trying to make students and visitors get interested in discovering the problems presented by real engineering and architecture applications. In addition, SDE covers R&D aspects in different fields such as energy efficiency, solar energy and bioclimatic architecture. This article presents the methodology followed during the SDE 2012 edition, in which more than 850 students participated. The obtained results show that the educational competition was a success according to the technical and professional ambitions of the students, most of them considering that their knowledge had increased in areas related to technical and multidisciplinary aspects.
International
Si
JCR
Si
Title
Energy And Buildings
ISBN
0378-7788
Impact factor JCR
2,679
Impact info
Datos JCR del año 2012
Volume
10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.073
Journal number
From page
1
To page
7
Month
ABRIL
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Participants
Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Generación Distribuida Renovable y Control Inteligente
  • Departamento: Electrónica Física
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto de Energía Solar