{"id":3650,"date":"2016-03-03T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/discoverycentre\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:06","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2016\/profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Sustainable &#038; Renewable Energy Engineering Major I-CUREUS Participant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Profile: Sustainable &#038; Renewable Energy Engineering Major I-CUREUS Participant\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>My role as an I-CUREUS participant involved many iterations of the design process, which is essential in engineering. As a student of , I couldn\u2019t imagine a more engaging and applicable opportunity than being involved in solar energy research, which is exactly what my I-CUREUS experience entailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This program allowed me to work under one of my most respected professors, Dr. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, (for the Carleton Research &amp; Innovation in Sustainable Energy (C-RISE) facility on campus).&nbsp; In particular, my position exposed me to numerous facets of engineering processes, from designing and machining interfaces for mounting pyranometers for C-RISE\u2019s weather station, to the installation of ducting for an air-source heat pump and insulating a thermal storage tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those considering I-CUREUS, I would suggest speaking to a professor whose research interests them, and ask to get involved.&nbsp; I can not recommend I-CUREUS enough \u2013 it has allowed me to get first-hand experience with the area of research that I\u2019m most passionate about. Moreover, it has the most important and beneficial aspect of my experience at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashley Hooker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My role as an I-CUREUS participant involved many iterations of the design process, which is essential in engineering. As a student of , I couldn\u2019t imagine a more engaging and applicable opportunity than being involved in solar energy research, which is exactly what my I-CUREUS experience entailed. This program allowed me to work under one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icureus-testimonials"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42867,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/42867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}