David Ferrer is awarded a UH Energy Scholars fellowship to optimize MWEC

David Ferrer is an undergraduate student at UH with a major in Mechanical Engineering has been recently awarded a UH Energy Scholars fellowship of $6,000 to investigate new approaches for designing the PTO mechanism of a multi-mode wave energy converter (MWEC) invented by Dr. Kalliontzis and his graduate student, Vasileios Kotzamanis. David’s line of work follows the research performed by John Alvey and Brandt Bechtel, another two undergraduate students who worked previously on the MWEC technology. Their work led to a UMERC conference paper.

MWEC array