Among the Program's course requirements is ESE 460, The Energy Systems Engineering Project. This course and the research it entails, is a hallmark of Lehigh's Energy Systems Program.
The project constitutes 3 or 6 credits, depending on the complexity of the student's research topic. The project is a collaborative and intensive study in an area of energy systems engineering, with emphasis on direct industrial application.
The following list describes some of the student research projects within ESE:
POWER GENERATION:
• Combined Cycle Power Plant Operations Cost Modeling Project
• Cost Estimates for Retrofit of Once Through Cooling Systems to Closed-Cycle Cooling Systems for Power Plants
• Biomass Cofiring and Its Effect on the Combustion Process
• Passive Anaerobic Digestion System: Backend Integration and Sustainability Implications
• Anaerobic Digestion for the Production of Biogas
• Thermal Integration of Compressors in Post-Combustion Carbon Capture and Storage
• The Future of U.S. Nuclear Power Generation
POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION:
• Smart Grid Data Collection
• Aluminum gallium nitride Field-Effect Transistor with Normally Off Operations
• Achieving the Renewable Portfolio Standard in the Mid-Atlantic States
• Fiber-based Communications
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
• Analysis of Chemical Treatment in Heterogeneous Soils
• Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete Structures in Nuclear Power Generation Facilities
• Methods to Reduce the Bioaccessibility of Arsenic in Soils; Interactions of Arsenic-contaminated Fill Material at Substations
• Water Demands and Availability for Power Generation: Assessing Water Sustainability Options
• Remediation of PCBs by use of Engineered Natural Systems Technology