Here is an entry from Felicia White, a rising junior, presidential scholar from San Antonio, TX.

The Prez

This summer (May 26 – July 30) I am working in the Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University. FREEDM is a new program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote research that will help to find “solutions to better utilize long term, secure, sustainable, and environmentally friendly energy,” including wind, solar, thermal, and hydro to name a few.

I work under Dr. Srdjan Lukic in the studies of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles better learning their advantages and disadvantages and trying to find ways to overcome their downfalls. My project is to make a model of the electrical system of the vehicles on the computer so that I can test different types of batteries and look for ways to make the vehicles more efficient.