Current Project Opportunities

The following are a list of the projects currently available for students. The list is constantly updating as we grow the program and community partner needs shift. 

Do you have a project in mind? Have an organization you want to work with to make a project happen?

Let us know! We can help you make this happen. (Additional examples of what is possible can be see at the well-established Purdue EPICS Teams page.)

What to see what projects our students have engaged in in the past? Check out our page dedicated to that information HERE.

Spring 2025 Projects

Additional projects are on the way!

• Equitable Solar Solutions/Western Colorado Univ/Alaska Center for Energy and Power:
  • When: Spring 2025.
  • Type of Organization: Not-for-profit
  • Mission: Reusing solar equipment to create the greatest value for those whi the greatest need
  • Population Served: Low-income households and communitiess
  • This project most closely aligns with Computer Science
  • Potential Project: Thermal Drone Image Processing and Cataloguing
    I fly a thermal IR drone to inspect solar arrays. Because I am on a budget, I bought a used thermal drone with 160x120 pixel resolution on the infrared camera. There is off-the-shelf software capable of stitching drone images together but those packages require much higher resolution images in order to match up image "edges".
    
  • "How do you see this (these) project(s) fulfilling the 'help address human, community, and environmental needs' aspect of SoE UNITY @ UNM?": This will improve methods of assessing existing solar arrays for their potential reuse when the initial array is decommissioned or repowered within the Equitable Solar Solutions program. It can also be used in the assessment of existing solar arrays to identify and catalogue defect modes to assess the reliability of components and share with the broader research community.