1. What is Solar Energy?
Jason Pazulski
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11/15/10

2. Introduction
Solar energy has been used in
many ways to help
revolutionize the way we
gather, and utilize energy

3. What is a Solar Panel?
A solar panel is a conductive
material that produces
electricity directly from light
These are also called
photovoltaic cells, or solar cells
Solar cells have dropped in
price 31% from 1998 to 2008

4. Who is a person that works
with Solar Energy?
Anyone who works with solar
energy is classified as a
scientist
More specific types of scientists
that work with solar energy
may be bio engineers,
astronomers, and chemical
engineers

5. Who is a person that works
with Solar Energy?
The reason bio engineers work with
solar energy is because they study
living organisms, and anything living
needs the sun
Astronomers work with solar energy
because the sun is in space, and
astronomers study the SUN, planets,
galaxies, and other star systems

6. Who is a person that works
with Solar Energy?
Chemical engineers work with
solar energy because there is a
chemical process in the solar
panels that produces the
electricity
Chemical engineers are the
scientists who develop and test
the chemical processes

7. When does Solar Energy work
the best?
Solar panels collect almost all of
the solar energy during the day
Some solar panels actually use the
heat that was produced by the
sun, to continue making energy
through the night, although it is not
as much, or efficient as direct
sunlight

8. Where was solar energy first
used or found?
Solar energy was first actually
used in France by Alexander
Edmond Becquerel, and
Antoine Cesar Becquerel in
1839

9. Why was solar energy
invented?
Solar Energy was found
accidentally by Antoine and
Alexander Becquerel
Solar energy was also used by John
Herschel as a survival method to
cook food while he was on an
Africa expedition
Solar energy was advanced (not
first created) to help lower the
amount of coal we use

10. Chemical Engineer
Solar energy is gathered by solar panels
and there is a chemical process that
allows that to happen
-About half of chemical engineers make
$97,900 a year in Maryland
-In Maryland, there are 730 chemical
engineers employed now
-It is estimated that there will be a 12%
increase in the amount of chemical engineers
from 2006 to 2016
A few related careers are geoscientists,
conservation scientists, and nuclear engineers

11. High School Career
Academies
I will go to Atholton High
School
I researched the Pre-
Engineering Academy
I chose this career academy
because it has to do with
engineering

12. The University of Maryland
The location of the college I researched is
College Park, Maryland
The tuition is $8,416 a year
The program requirements are: you need: 128
credits and fulfillment of all Departmental,
College, and University requirements with a
grade point average of 2.0
The school’s mascot is a diamondback terrapin,
the percentage of students that graduate is 80%,
and there are 35,369 students enrolled

13. Community Service
I chose to volunteer as a firefighter
The reason I chose this is because
to be a chemical engineer, you
must work very hard, and that is no
different than firefighters
They both work with tools and have to
find solutions to problems
Being a volunteer fire fighter also
seems like an interesting job

14. Prior Job Experience
I have volunteered as a firefighter
I worked at McDonald’s
I worked at the Columbia Ice Rink as a
referee

15. Citing
I used Career One Stop to look at
the trends, wages, and
advancement
I used About My Planet’s picture of
a solar panel
I used Florida Solar Energy Center’s
graph on where solar panels gather
the most energy in the U.S.A
I used a picture from Biosulf.org of a
scientist