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DOE and ORNL Announces University Student Challenge: Jump into STEM!

  • 1.  DOE and ORNL Announces University Student Challenge: Jump into STEM!

    Posted 10-09-2018 11:28 AM
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory is hosting a student competition for individuals or teams of university students. The prize is an internship at ORNL, but the learning is endless! ORNL has posted two challenges to date related to the issue of residential buildings.  

    Residential buildings are 95% of the US building stock, use 50% of peak demand energy, and  21% of US energy.
    DOE Goal:  By 2025, reduce the energy use for space conditioning and water heating in homes by 40% from 2010 levels. (Dept. of Energy).

    Challenge 1: Connecting the RIGHT Data at the Right Time to Improve Residential Building Performance. How can we tackle connecting behavioral motivations with increasingly accessible energy use data? 

    Challenge 2:  Fault Detection - Designing New Methods for a Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Buildings

    See the complete schedule here.     Informative webinars are available on the main website and more details are attached. 



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    Dr. Nissa Dahlin-Brown, Assoc. AIA
    Director, Higher Education
    The American Institute of Architects
    Washington, DC
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