Ren Lab – Building Better Energy Storage Sytems

Teaching

Fall 2025, EMA3706-002 Structure and Properties of Aerospace Materials

Textbook: Callister’s Materials Science and Engineering

ISBN: 978-1-119-40549-8

Course hours: Tuesday / Thursday 12:00 -13:15 pm

Final hours: Thursday, December 4th, 10:00 am -12:50 pm

Course and final exame location: HS1 Building Rm O112, UCF main campus, 32816

Spring 2026, EMA5586, Photovoltaic Solar Energy Materials

Currently taking students!!

Textbook: slides, no book is required

Course hours: TuTh 7:30PM – 8:45PM, 1/12/2026 – 5/5/2026

Course and final exame location: ENG1 O386A and online

Photovoltaic Solar Energy Materials: Materials properties basic to photovoltaics, structures, homojunction, heterojunction, and surface barrier solar cells, AMDS-1D modeling of c-Si, GaAs bulk and a-Si:H, CIGS, and CdTe thin film solar cells.