EAG Hosts Summer Interns at NPS
This summer the Energy Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hosted a team of three interns from Salinas, California based Hartnell College’s Community College Catalyst program to support microgrid and operational fuel modeling projects.
This program allowed the interns to gain real world experience working on technical problems to enhance
their development as undergrad engineering students while supporting naval research.
The interns were tasked with two projects, updating an existing surface fleet fuel consumption model to serve as an educational tool in an operational logistics course, and assisting in the design, component selection, and programming of a hybrid containerized microgrid system. In the surface fleet fuel consumption model, the team focused on debugging existing code and writing documentation to make the program easier to use and understand. In the microgrid project, the interns identified Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components that could be assembled into a functioning microgrid system and developed a prototype data collection device to monitor the system’s battery bank and allow for basic controls. Both of these projects support research and educational efforts at NPS and will likely be adapted for use in future graduate-level theses or research projects.
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Email Brandon Naylor at blnaylor@nps.edu or call 831-656-1986.
