COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

SEMINARS AND FIELD TRIP

REACTION PAPER

SUBMITTED BY:
ESPINO, RENZ ANTHONY N.

ENGR. JULIET O. NIEGA

INSTRUCTOR

MARCH 23, 2017

Paciano Rizal, Calamba City Laguna, (049) 576-6564 / 049 824-1159

www.perpetualdalta.edu.ph
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Reaction Paper

Title: Electrifying Engineering Studens to Global Competitiveness through the proficiency of

Electrical Estimate, Solar and Motor Control
Venue: University of Perpetual Help System Dalta- Calamba Campus Gymnasium
Speaker: Engr. Dave Catausan, Engr. Allan Alvarez
Date: February 4, 2017
Time: 8:00AM-3:00PM

I learned that Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity,
either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power.
Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large
area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using
the photovoltaic effect. Most solar installations would be in China and India.
Hence, Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and
medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes
powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number
of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power
stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an
inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun.
While in Motor Control, I get the point of overview of industrial motor controls highlights the
differences and subsystems for DC motor, brushless DC, and AC induction motors. An in-depth
analysis of critical subsystems focuses on monitoring and measuring current; sensing
temperature; sensing motor speed, position, and movement; monitoring and controlling
multichannel currents and voltages; and high-accuracy motor control with encoder data
interfaces.
Electric motors consume almost 50% of the world's electricity. With the cost of energy
rising steadily, industry is focused on replacing inefficient constant-speed motors and drives
with microprocessor-based, variable-speed drives. This new motor-control technology will
reduce energy consumption by more than 30% compared to the older drives. While these
variable-speed controllers add cost to a motor, the forecasted energy savings and increased
motor functionality should easily offset those initial expenses within a few years.
Seminars and Field Trip
 Reaction Paper

Title: Innovation Integration: Equating Intelligence and Aptitude

Venue: University of Perpetual Help System Dalta- Calamba Campus Gymnasium
Speaker: Engr. Jucar
Date: March 3, 2017
Time: 9:00AM-11:00AM

I learned that Fluor is at the forefront of commercializing renewable energy, servicing

the solar, wind and geothermal power markets. They offer a full range of services to bring
renewable projects from conceptual design to final completion, with renewable energy project
development experience including: Engineering, Procurement and Construction,Plant
Technology Integration,Program Management,Commissioning Services,Operations and
Maintenance,Solar

The Fluors solar experience dates back to the 1980s, providing EPC services for the
worlds first commercial photovoltaic power plant in Carrisa Plains, California. Today, Fluor is at
the forefront of commercializing renewable energy and helping bring solar-generated electricity
to the grid. We offer a full range of integrated solutions to bring utility-scale solar projects from
conceptual design to final completion and comprehensive operations and maintenance services
for the life of the asset.

Wind
Fluor develops, designs and builds wind farm projects. We are able to provide wind
turbines, heavy steel structures and other critical supply chain elements to complex onshore
and offshore wind farm locations. Fluor can also assist Clients to secure connections to the
appropriate power grids.

Geothermal
Fluors geothermal experience dates back more than 20 years and includes projects in
the United States and Indonesia. Our experts understand the complexities involved with
channeling this renewable energy from beneath the Earths surface.

Energy Storage
 Clients seeking energy storage solutions come to Fluor to provide thermal, battery,
compressed air and pumped hydro storage services. We have the experience to construct new
and update existing facilities to stabilize the transient nature of solar and wind projects, as well
as provide valuable peaking capacity during times of energy demand.

Hydroelectric
Fluor provides customized solutions to assist power plant owners with turnkey solutions
in the hydroelectric market, including services for water and wastewater distribution,
reclamation and treatment. These water resources solutions are simple, safe, secure,
sustainable and smart.

Seminars and Field Trip

 Reaction Paper

Title:
Venue: University of Perpetual Help System Dalta- Calamba Campus Gymnasium
Speaker: Engr. Balinado
Date: March 11, 2017
Time: 1:30PM-3:30PM

Simulink is a simulation and model-based design environment for dynamic and

embedded systems, integrated with MATLAB. Simulink, also developed by MathWorks, is a data
flow graphical programming language tool for modelling, simulating and analyzing multi-domain
dynamic systems. It is basically a graphical block diagramming tool with customizable set of
block libraries. It allows you to incorporate MATLAB algorithms into models as well as export the
simulation results into MATLAB for further analysis. Simulink supports system-level design
simulation, automatic code generation, testing and verification of embedded systems
There are several other add-on products provided by MathWorks and third-party hardware and
software products that are available for use with Simulink. Simulink is capable of systematic
verification and validation of models through modelling style checking, requirements
traceability and model coverage analysis. Simulink Design Verifier allows you to identify design
errors and to generate test case scenarios for model checking.