COOS BAY, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College invites the community to join us on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 6:00 pm, for “Solar PV Panels: Salvation or Snake Oil?” with local Electrical Engineer and part-time instructor at Southwestern, Frazier Pruett, owner of Bespoke Power, LLC in Coos Bay.
Coos County residents can join us in-person in the Umpqua Hall lecture room (room 184) on the Coos Campus, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
Curry County residents can join us for a watch party in the Community Room on the Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway, Brookings.
For those not able to attend in person the lecture will be streamed live on the College’s YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/@southwesternOR/streams.
About the Lecture:
Solar power has been touted as one of the many green energy options to help our country and the world produce more environmentally-friendly power. However, design and efficiency constraints limit just how effective solar panels can be at providing the clean energy promised to match demand. Frazier Pruett provides a deep dive into the design and array of Solar PV panels while addressing a few of the ongoing challenges and concerns with Solar PV systems.
About the Presenter:
Frazier Pruett graduated from the University of Florida in 1984 with a degree in Electrical Engineering after spending over a decade as a professional electronic technician and hobbyist. He has worked as a professional design engineer since then in various types of power conversion designs. These power conversion systems have a wide range of applications across many fields and sectors. His specialty is lighting drivers for incandescent, fluorescent, HID, UHP, LEDs, and LASERs. He holds more than 25 patents in various fields. Frazier currently owns Bespoke Power and co-owns Emgen Engineering, two local engineering consulting firms. He is also part-time engineering faculty at Southwestern Oregon Community College.
For more information about the lecture series contact Dr. Aaron Coyner, Associate Professor, Physics and Engineering at aaron.coyner@socc.edu or 541-888-7244.
For more information on upcoming lectures contact Krystal Hopper Meyers, STEAM Pathways Assistant, at 541-888-7416, or krystal.hopper@socc.edu.
To learn more about STEM degrees at Southwestern visit: https://www.socc.edu/programs-classes/stem/.
