Senior design project

Summary:

John’s senior design project was completed in 2019 over the last year of his bachelor's degree at Cal Poly SLO. He worked with a team of three other mechanical engineering students to design an autonomous and waterless solar cell cleaning system. The project was sponsered by Fracsun Inc., a company specializing in PV soiling measurements.

Cal Poly SLO digital commons link:

Cunningham, J., Sagers, A., Greig, P., Glynn, J., “ARES Cleaning System”, Senior Design Project, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 2019, https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/mesp/475

Photo album:

ARES Cleaning System
The final design of the ARES Cleaning System
ARES Cleaning System soldworks
Solidworks assembly exploded view of ARES Cleaning System
Fracsun founders at senior project expo
Team member Andy Sagers testing the ARES Cleaning System
Fracsun founders at senior project expo
Fracsun founders Catlin Mattheis and Bryan Fisher at the ARES Cleaning System senior project expo booth
John Cunningham with the ARES Cleaning System
John Cunningham with the ARES Cleaning System
Demonstration of the ARES Cleaning System at the Fracsun headquarters
(Last updated: 2024-02-19)