Rebecca Alcock, a PhD student in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a Fulbright/Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship to spend 10 months in Switzerland conducting research.
Alcock (BSBME ’18, MSBME ’20) will work with researchers at the Swiss university ETH Zürich to improve a technical toolkit she’s developed to help healthcare facilities in under-resourced settings integrate solar power. Alcock, who focuses on clinics that lack access to electricity, has previously traveled to rural Colombia to test her toolkit.
Her toolkit includes analytical tools to estimate a clinic’s electrical demands, inform the size of its energy system, and simulate future performance under conditions created by climate change.
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