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ELE101 - Apresentação Final dos Projetos de Viabilidade de Energia Alternativa do Curso ELE101 - Introdução a Engenharia Elétrica

Final Presentations - Introduction to Electrical Engineering

“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
CS Lewis

“It often happens that two students can solve difficulties in their work for one another better than the master can. When you took the problem to a master, as we all remember, he was very likely to explain what you understood already, to add a great deal of information which you didn’t want, and say nothing at all about the thing that was puzzling you. I have watched this from both sides of the net; for when, as a teacher myself, I have tried to answer questions brought me by students, I have sometimes, after a minute, seen that expression settle down on their faces which assured me that they were suffering exactly the same frustration which I had suffered from my own teachers. The fellow-student can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago that he has forgotten. He sees the whole subject, by now, in a different light that he cannot conceive what is really troubling the student; he sees a dozen other difficulties which ought to be troubling him but aren’t.” 
CS Lewis

The following impressive list of projects is a clear demonstration of the ability of undergraduate students to learn via independent study and research.

These projects were developed as a partial requirement for an Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.  Each group selected a topic of interest within the topics of alternative energy and emerging technologies and met with the instructor on a regular basis. Progress reports were required for monitoring the process and reporting via a webpage or blog for the project.

The instructor has used this research approach many times, and despite possible short-comings of the less structured classroom situation, the results and amount of learning for the student and instructor is very valuable, and worth of new attempts. The variety and depth of the topics speak for itself. It is expected that some of the projects will be submitted as articles to IEEE and other Engineering Education conferences and publications.  

Grupo 1 
www.g1microgrid.blogspot.com.br

Grupo 2
http://projetoeolicoitajuba.blogspot.com.br/

Grupo 3
 http://eelgrupo3.wix.com/grupo-3

Grupo 4
https://sites.google.com/site/autoresidencia/home

Grupo 5
 http://maurolibanio.wix.com/livehealthly

Grupo 6
 http://energiafotovoltaic.wix.com/grupo6

Grupo 7
 http://projetoeel.blogspot.com.br/

Grupo 8
http://tidalenergy.webs.com/pre-project

Grupo 9
http://smartspent.webuda.com/

Grupo 10
http://stifler16.wix.com/s-energy-storage

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Life of Learning

Quote from Derek Brewer about the way C.S. Lewis taught at Oxford:

“It conceived of learning as a way of life - - -  Their reading, thinking and writing were part of a unified life, neither “job” nor “recreation,” because they were both. They did not, strictly speaking, “teach.” In the morning and evenings of the term they were visited in their rooms by arrangement by their pupils, who “read the subject with them.” It was not exactly an egalitarian society, but there was a sense of fundamental equality and unity, divided into ranks and stages. I had not doubt, at the age of eighteen, that for all the differences of temperament, intelligence, ability, learning, repute, and age between me and this distinguished, jolly man, we were nevertheless of the same kind, engaged in the same pursuit. And the reason I felt this was no doubt because that was how Lewis treated me. I was not a school boy to be taught and disciplined, not a “student,” but a “man” 

Narnia Under Construction - Cair Paravel

Images - June 19 - 2014

Come in by the gold gates or not at all, 
Take of my fruits for others or forbear, 
For those who steal, or those who climb my wall 
Shall find their heart's desire and find despair. 

The Magician's Nephew

ICHQP - Bucharest - May 25-258

Images of a Time of Learning and Celebration

“You may feel that I have spent too much time on this great author’s faults  and too little on his excellences.  But that is because I am speaking among his friends.  Where else does one mention the faults of a person one loves?”

This quote of C.S. Lewis describes well the feeling I had after returning from another great International Conference on Harmonics and Power Quality - (the 16th ICHQP in Bucharest).  Great shared experience.

Once again I was glad to see among the members of this engineering community men and women whose modesty, courtesy, fair-mindedness, patience in disputation and readiness to see an antagonist's point were very clear.  I was fortunate to meet them again and count many as friends.

Professor Bollen called his panel “a group of expert friends” - - - who are critical because they care.

One of the strongest things in the professional  / academic world is the peculiar relation which men and women who work in the same area have to the subject and to one another –  the inescapable bond of shared experiences which leads to a commitment to life.

“Oh, was there ever a  sailor free to choose,
That didn’t settle somewhere near the sea? - - -“  Kippling

Any way, two years from now you are all invited to join us in Belo Horizonte, Brazil for the 17th ICHQP - which promises, among other attractions, a meeting of expert friends who like William Blake believed that “opposition is true friendship” and will engage each other in great discussions for the sake of learning, understanding and cooperation  - never competition.

Check the webpage under construction - - -

WWW.ICHQP2016.ORG

We plan on a conference as exciting as the upcoming World Cup, but with better preparation and planning  :-)
Cheers, Paulo

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Celebrating the Quality of Life

Coral da Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana de Itajubá

Clips

Convivência Adolescentes - Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana de Itajubá

Abril 17-21, 2014

Images

Introduction to Electrical Engineering at UNIFEI

ELE 101
Introduction to Electrical Engineering 

Blogs / Webpages

Group 1 - Micro Grids

Blog
www.g1microgrid.blogspot.com.br

Group 2 - Wind Power

Blog / Page
http://projetoeolicoitajuba.blogspot.com.br/

 Group 3 -  Bio Medical Applications

Blog / Page
http://eelgrupo3.wix.com/grupo-3

Group 4 - Graphene

Blog / Page

https://sites.google.com/site/autoresidencia/home

5 - Smart Grids

Blog / Page
 http://maurolibanio.wix.com/livehealthly

6 - Photovoltaics

Blog / Page
http://energiafotovoltaic.wix.com/grupo6

7 -  Wireless Transmission of Energy

Blog / Page
 http://projetoeel.blogspot.com.br/

8 - Artificial Inteligence for Power Systems

Blog / Page
 tidalenergy.webs.com

9 - Nuclear Fusion

Blog / Page
http://smartspent.webuda.com/

10 - Supercondutvity

Blog / Page
http://stifler16.wix.com/s-energy-storage 

Family Time

"It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past" 

csl

In my experience it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate, the people who "happen to be there".  Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.    

CSL