M.E. Senior Capstone Examines Regenerative Energy
Regenerative energy is being used more and more in vehicles today in attempts to make them more efficient, harnessing extra energy usually from braking, to feed back into the electrical system. Kettering student Rick Birdsall, as seen in the picture, holds up parts to an inductive “shake-to-charge” flashlight he dissected over the weekend with grand plans to imitate its electrical system for his senior capstone project. Rick explains, “We want to use a cars shock absorbers to see how much regenerative energy we can produce. It’s a simple concept, but we don’t we don’t know how effective it will be yet.”
Rick is on a team with two other mechanical engineering students, Jim Gat and Warren Paul, who have a budget of $200 and until the end of the school term to come up with a complete working model. Rick went on to say “We saw that M.I.T. had some research on this, but it wasn’t exactly the approach were taking.” In all efforts to be a more sustainable world, research like this has a large impact on industry, and the student-lead team will hopefully have some interesting results in the weeks to come. Get in touch with Rick for more information on the project.
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