News
UTC Solar Decathlon team received $10,000 sponsorship from Scenic City Solar LLC.

Dr. Yang won Harris Chair Commercialization Acceleration Mini-Grant Program, and received $6,000.

UTC Solar Decathlon, Design team (lead by Dr. Eun-Young Kim), successfully completed the 2023 Design Competition resulting one of global top 10 in the attached housing division. Many congrats!

UTC Solar Decathlon team won the 1st prize and the audience favorite prize at 2023 FLY Pitch Competition with $22,000 award funding.

Chattanooga Times Free Press covers UTC Solar Decathlon team’s story about energy-efficient windows.

Dr. Sungwoo Yang appears on live newscast shows [Local3News] talking about Solar Energy as the US vice president, Harris, visiting QCells.
UTC Solar Decathlon, Building team appears in Local3News. [link]
UTC Solar Decathlon, Design team, lead by Dr. Eun-Young Kim, appears in UTC news. [link]
Congratulations to 2022 UTC Solar Decathlon team (DOE) on a new publication in Journal of Green Building. [link]

Congratulations UTC Solar Decathlon Team (Valerie, Connor, Jakob and Dr. Yang) winning the 2nd place for 2023 FLY Pitch competition and $1,500 prize!

UTC Solar Decathlon (DOE design, Dr. E. Kim leads this year) won the semifinal heading to the final competition in April. Congratulations! [link]

Andrew (Student Lead), Connor (Building Lead) and Dr. Yang (Advisor) visited the site (OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, CA) to build an energy-efficient house.

The site is picked. UTC Solar Decathlon team will build an energy-efficient house at Engel Stadium at Chattanooga starting early Dec. 2022.

UTC’s Solar Decathlon team won the semifinal competition at 2021 DOE-SD Design Challenge, becoming one of worldwide top 10 in the new house division. [2]

The Chattanoogan.com covers our story. [3]

UTC Solar Decathlon team on a local TV news show. [4]

UTC Solar Decathlon awarded $100,000. [6],[7]
The Chattanoogan.com covers our efforts on 2023 OC Sustainability competition.[8]





