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I'm an electrical engineer at Mindtribe Product Engineering, an engineering consulting firm in San Francisco... We won a DoE grant to model and predict failures in solar arrays. After spending about six months helping build MATLAB simulations, I was tasked with designing a solar array for the roof of the CMU-SV lab. A task that started out overwhelming, but is probably my proudest work: our 24-panel, pole-mounted 1.2kW array, instrumented with 900+ temperature sensors and a weather station, wired in four parallel strings of six panels each... I learned not only about photovoltaic modeling and simulation, but also how to use Google SketchUp, how to work with high voltage wiring, electrical code, contactors, wirenuts, disconnect switch boxes, programmable electronic loads, I-V curve tracers, DS18b20 digital temperature sensors, and that your feet will get sunburned if you spend all your time in flip-flops on the roof.