# Course Topics and Materials

Click HERE to download files for each topic.
Contact Professor Rajeevan Amirtharajah for username and password.

### One Dimensional Vectors

- pdf - 8 questions
- Accompanying files:
- data.xlsx

### Two Dimensional Vectors

- pdf - 7 questions
- Accompanying files:
afv.mat
afv.xls
Davis_Weather_7012010_6302011.csv
hev.mat
hev.xls
SAC_AP_2005_solar.csv
work.mat
work.xls

### Logical Operations, Flow Control, and Loops

pdf - 8 questions
- Accompanying files:
illum.mat
mppt_load.xlsx
myload.xlsx
panel_mpp.m
pd_mpp.asv
pd_mpp.m
Q8_soln.m<

### Custom Functions

pdf - 6 questions
- Accompanying files:
q5.mat
lab6.mat
myadd.m
myNewton.m
solar_panel_optimal.m
solar_panel.m

### Projects

- Project #1 (Winter 2012) -- Not open ended. Specific tasks for students to complete.
- Project #1 Solution (.zip)
- Accompanying files:
weather_excel97_03.xls
weather_openDoc.ods
weather.mat
weather.xlsx
- Project #2 (Winter 2012) -- Five open ended topics. Topics 1 - 3 are renewable energy related, 4 and 5 are not.

### Below are Youtube videos produced in Winter 2012 by students who worked on the Solar Survey Option as their final project.

Project Description
Team SPS Engineers
Team CPT Crew
Team Solar 1
Team LoopZ'R us
Team Engineering Disciples
Team Squirrel With a Gun
Team Codeception
Team Weltzchmertz
- Project #2 (Summer 2011)
- Accompanying files:
StatesInfoMatFile.mat
CitiesMatFile.mat

## Slides

Sustainable Engineering Lecture -- Intro. lecture on sustainable engineering.
Intro. slides on MATLAB I/O -- Slides showing how MATLAB communicates with Arduino/HW. (Code shown is fictitious)
Nice chart on solar cell efficiency throughout the years. (source: NREL)