Abstract
The current difficulty in obtaining financial resources to acquire equipment for training personnel and the requirement of well-trained engineers in the industry looking toward sustainability, creates an opportunity to innovate in teaching tools, such as the proposed in this article, where a virtual world is projected, integrating the planning and design of a photovoltaic power plant (PV). The user can interact while immersed in the virtual scene as if the PV system were already installed, illustrating technical characteristics of selected equipment and its installation details, while the user is interacting with didactic activities focused on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. This paper summarizes an initiative within the teaching–learning context, which aims to show the advantages of using modern tools, such as virtual reality, to achieve teaching goals in a renewable energy course.
Highlights
Renewable energies have a noteworthy development worldwide
Once the experiment is carried out, it is worth noting that the experimental group virtual reality assisted training (VRAT) completed the task in less time than the participants in the traditional training (TT) group, and the statistical analysis shows a significant difference (p = 0.008 < 0.05) illustrating the benefits of the teaching methodology based on virtual reality
One of the main advantages of using the VR system is that the participant can interact with the objects as in the real world, and provides a platform to learn by interacting in a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic way
Summary
Energy Agency (IRENA) reported an increase of 8.8% in power generation with renewable energy in 2016 where hydraulic is the predominant one [1]. This document foresees an annual average growth of about 21.1% in the photovoltaic solar generation capacity to be installed from 2017 to 2031 with an increase in the annual average rate of 29.3%. The incident solar radiation in the country is quantified in [5] with the mean irradiation estimated to be around 5.5 kWhm−2 d−1. These data encourage sustainable projects in the country in the medium-term. Well-trained and experienced personnel are needed, and the universities are the principal leaders in a position to prepare the students to enter the industry and train personnel, but the high costs of didactic equipment for teaching is unachievable for most public universities in emerging nations, such as in Mexico
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