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.

Dr. Sungwoo Yang received Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Teaching Award that was selected by undergraduate students in the collge of engineering.

Dr. Sungwoo Yang and 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 our research 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 on last Thursday (04/06/2023).

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 Valerie, Connor, Jakob and Dr. Sungwoo 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 to UTC Solar Decathlon, DOE 2023 team! [link]

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

Dr. Yang received $100,000 funding from Government of California for UTC Solar Decathlon project. [27]

Congratulations to Matthew, Leandro, Stephanie, Sung Hee, and ORNL collaborators and the Civil Eng faculty members for a new publication in Materials. [26]

Congratulations to Evan for his new publication in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.[25]

Dr. Yang received $99,765 the Center of Excellence in Applied Computational Science & Engineering (CEACSE) grant award for the energy-efficient window project. [24]

The Chattanoogan.com covers our efforts on 2023 OC Sustainability competition.[23]

Congratulations to Evan and Syed for a new publication in Catalysis. [22]

Congratulations to 2021 UTC Solar Decathlon Team (Kaid, Ashton, Chelsie, Mel, Chase, Blaine and Drs. Kim) for a new publication in Journal of Green Building.

Dr. Yang served as Senior Personnel for NSF-REU program (ICompBio2, $396,980) at UTC with Dr. Qin.[21]

Matthew and Syed successfully presented their research at two conferences (ReSEARCH Dialogues 2022 and 2022 Technology Symposium) titled “Analysis of Graphene Produced from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”.

Syed successfully presented their research at two conferences (ReSEARCH Dialogues 2022 and 2022 Technology Symposium) titled “Vacuum sealed transparent aerogel to enhance mechanical properties”

Evan successfully presented their research at two conferences (ReSEARCH Dialogues 2022 and 2022 Technology Symposium) titled “Finite Element Modeling of Atmospheric Water Extraction by way of Highly Porous Adsorbents: a roadmap for solver construction with model factor sensitivity screening”

Dr. Yang won Ruth S. Holmberg Grant for Faculty Excellence award ($5,000).

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in Journal of Porous Materials. [20]

UTC Solar Decathlon team on a local TV news show (Local 3 News). [19]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in Journal of Joule. [18]

The Chattanoogan.com covers our story. [17]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in APL Materials. [16]

UTC Echo covers our Solar Decathlon story [15]

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. [14]

Evan successfully presented their research at two conferences (ReSEARCH Dialogues 2021 and 2021 Technology Symposium) titled “Adsorption Modeling for Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH)”

Hannah successfully presented her research at Annual AlChE meeting (Orlando, FL 2019) titled “Ambiently Dried Transparent Aerogel”

Emily successfully presented her research at Annual AlChE meeting (Orlando, FL 2019) titled “Flexible Three-dimensional Graphene Form for Water Harvest”

Dr. Yang served as Senior Personnel for NSF-RET program (PREP-CPS, $592,000) at UTC with Dr. Harris.[13]

Dr. Yang received $82,771 the Center of Excellence in Applied Computational Science & Engineering (CEACSE) grant award for the solar thermal receiver project. [12]

Dr. Yang received $35,520 (as Co-PI), Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners (TBAEE) grant. [11]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in ACS Nano. [10]

Dr. Yang successfully presented his research at SciPy Conference, Austin TX, 2019, titled “Water Harvesting Using Solar Energy”.

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a patent application. [9]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in Optical Express. [8]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a patent application. [7]

Evan successfully presented his research at Council on Undergraduate Research Conference, 2019, titled “Water Harvesting Using Solar Energy”.

Dr. Yang received $82,771 the Center of Excellence in Applied Computational Science & Engineering (CEACSE) grant award for the water harvesting project. [6]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in Journal of Joule. [5]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a patent application. [4]

Hannah and Evan successfully presented their research at AIChE Annual Professional Conference, 2018, titled “Modeling silica aerogel optical performance by determining its radiative properties”.

Dr. Yang received $14,070, Faculty Pre-Tenure Enhancement Program (PREP) Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in Nature Communications. [3]

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a patent application. [2]

Hannah successfully presented her research at at the Capitol 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research, 2018, titled “Transparent Aerogel Optical Propagation”.

Congratulations to Dr. Yang and his collaborators for a new publication in Chemical Science. [1