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Sarah Kurtz

Sarah Kurtz
Professional Title: 
Professor, Dept Chair (EE), and Graduate Program Chair (MBSE)
Office: 
SE2 384
Education: 
  • Ph.D., 1985 – Harvard University, chemical physics
  • B.A., 1979 - Manchester College, chemistry and physics
Research Interests: 
  • Trends of growth of renewable energy and research issues that need to be tackled to support continued improvements
  • Latest research challenges as the solar industry is growing rapidly
  • Performance of PV systems and how the performance of the system and the grid it feeds into can be improved
  • Reliability issues with PV systems