Aguascalientes, Ags., November 30, 2022.- Engineering students won the Energy Transformation Challenge of Siemens Energy in Mexico this summer. Their project was one that required constant development for several months.
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The School of Engineering demonstrated, once again, the capacity of its students to place Panamericana as a highly prestigious university at a nationallevel, while proving that it is no stranger to the podiums of this type of events where organizations and participants from all over the country compete.
Project Team
The engineering team was made up of students Mateo Albarrán Sánchez, César Alejandro Cienfuegos Gómez and Arturo Alexis de la Rosa Sánchez, who, in turn, were supported by Professor Marco Colmenares throughout the arduous process required to carry out this highly innovative project.
"A series of thermalcameras were integrated to a drone over time, in addition to normal vision cameras," says Diego Larrondo Montalvo, head of the Energy Technologies Engineering program. "All this so that it can, through an algorithm, detect any type of failure in the solar cells of large-scale farms".
The idea is, in large part, to help industries save both money and time. It is a project that attracts the attention of many investors in the sector, as they see that it can be of great help in the near future. Its potential is evident and, for this reason, the company based in Germany wanted to bet on this idea of the students of our institution.
Diego Larrondo comments that, "within this industry it is a challenge to detect these cell failures, since it is necessary for a person to go through hundreds or thousands of rows of panels that can fail, all of this is very slow and costly. With this drone, this whole process is greatly expedited".
The hydrocálido team headed to Mexico City to present their project. In the competition, there were some of higher caliber in terms of budget, but our engineers made their presentation to the investors in a very eloquent and precise manner, which allowed them to win the competition and demonstrate their great worth to all present.
The aim is, broadly speaking, to change the way we use energy. To find resources and sources that stop damaging the planet so much and make clean energies simpler to use, as well as less expensive, and thus be able to achieve the sustainability that is so necessary.
The students have been working on the development of the technology and design since September, and will continue it on behalf of Siemens, hired directly by the company. The idea is that it will take about a year to finish it. Once finished, they will be given the option to continue with this line of projects, or to continue within the energy division of the company.
