Implementation Assistance

What is Implementation Assistance?

Often potential energy efficiency measures are discovered that have the potential to save facilities large amounts of money through reduced energy or waste consumption. These projects require significant research and development to create adaquate solutions for energy reduction. Time constraints from frequent industrial assessments and limited time for report generation cause these potentially rewarding projects to go unpursued. The implementation assistance program through the IAC at Texas A&M can bridge the gap of time and research constraints and produce energy efficient results that will greatly reduce energy use and increase cost savings. The research projects are primarily pursued by graduate students working at the IAC and through the sponsorship of senior design projects.

Senior Design Projects

The senior design courses at Texas A&M are the capstone of the mechanical engineering curriculum. Students integrate knowledge and skills acquired in their undergraduate courses to design and develop products for industrial partners. Under the direction of faculty and graduate student advisors, these projects follow an advanced design process based on a top down systems approach that encourages innovation. By sponsoring a senior design project, teams of students will devote the year-long course researching and developing an effective solution that satisfies all necessary design criteria. The results of these projects can lead to substantial monetary savings through reduced energy usage in projects that can't be evaluated in the limited time constraints experienced at the IAC.

Sponsoring a Senior Design Project

For more information regarding sponsorship of senior design projects, contact the IAC director, Bryan Rasmussen.