Solar Energy Theses
Asterisk (*) after year denotes honors thesis.
1983
- Geri Quintero, Municipal Solar & Conservation Utilities forVermont Communities
1985
- Laura J. Swigert, Cogenerating Waste Heat From the McNeilStation for Utilization in a Greenhouse
1987
- Gunnar Hubbard, Energy and Food Production: A Design forPassive Solar Greenhouse Addition to a Log Home in Central Vermont
1992
- Leah Silberfarb, A Qualitative Study of Vermont SolarCompanies: Economic and Reliability Factors and Consumer Demand of Solar Technology
1993
- Mark Robohm, Vermont Residents' Compatability with Their Passive Solar Homes: A Perceptional Analysis
- Laura B. Scott, Solar Energy and Sustainable Communities: ANational Survey and New England Case Study
1994
- * Adam R. Smith, A Policy Assessment of Proposed Solar Energy Legislation for Vermont
1997
- Katherine Moxhet, Comparative Energy Policy Study: United States and United Kingdom; Commercialization of Solar and Wind Power Technologies
2002
- James Alex Crothers, The Sustainability of Festivals
2003
- Sofi H. Rubinstein, Ecological Design for the Desert: Plans for a Sustainable House in the Negev Desert
- Michelle M. Smith, Values and Motivators: A Market Analysis of Solar Works, Inc. Customers
2004
- Lisa J. Hershey, Passive Solar and Photovoltaic Design Plan for an Off-Grid Home in Starksboro, Vermont
- Sara E. Mehalick, Creating Sustainable Urban Dwellings: A Passive Solar Design Retrofit for Wilks Hall at the University of Vermont
- Ashley Kaarina Taylor, The Implementation of Solar Cooking by the Free Methodist Solar Energy Program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Assessing the Cost Effectiveness and Success of Technology Transfer
2005
- Benjamin A. Normand, A Solar Home Design for Morristown, Vermont
- Nathan Trachimowicz, Hands-On Solar Energy Education: Research, Design,and Construction of an Interactive Exhibit Explaining Principles of Photovoltaic Cells to Children at Champlain Elementary School
2006
- Sara Armstrong, Construction, Management and Opportunities of a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse
- Mark Babson, Ecological Engineering: A Housing Design for Vermont that Incorporates Local, Natural, and Environmentally Friendly Materials
- Spencer Halstead, Getting off the Ground: Designing a Sustainable Treehouse
2007
- Stuart Pratt, Aspects of Green Building and Design: Using Natural and Local Materials to Design a Sustainable Cabin
- Manuel Valencia, Sustainable Design in the Caribbean: Passive Strategies, Active Systems, and the Design Process
2009
- * Caitlin Chase, Solar is a Solution!: The Development of a Renewable Energy Curriculum at Brewster-Pierce Memorial School
- Justin Rappaport, Solar Energy Internship: A Learning Experience into the Technology, Business, Economic Incentives and the Use of Interactive Field Maps to Portray Data in the Solar Energy Field
2010
- * Teddy Dobbin – The Feasibility of Zero Energy Homes in the Residential Sector: A Northern New England Case Study
- * Sarah Gruver – Design and Energy Consumption Model of an Efficient Earth-Sheltered Greenhouse for the George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory
- Robert Lawless – The Design and Construction of a Solar Hot Water System for the Jericho Research Forest
- Allen Roth – Internship with Creative Energies: How a Renewable Energy Company Operates and What is Gained Through an Internship
2012
- Christopher Houck – Senior Internship in Renewable Energy with Solar Source, a branch of the Melanson Company
- Benjamin S. Post – Examination of Snow Accumulation on Photovoltaic Panels: A Feasibility Study
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