Good Luck to the Design Challenge Finalist Teams!
Five weeks and counting! Our teams have been working hard, and we’re excited to announce this year's finalist teams for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® Design Challenge.
Students from 47 teams, representing 38 collegiate institutions, have taken a big step in advancing their education and careers by being selected as finalists in the next U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon. DOE congratulates these teams as they vie to be the grand winner during the Design Challenge Weekend, April 12-14, 2019, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado!
The collegiate institutions are:
- Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina)
- Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)
- California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, California)
- Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- CEPT University (Ahmedabad, India)
- Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture for Women (Pune, India)
- Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Hampton University (Hampton, Virginia)
- Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
- Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kansas)
- King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia)
- Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
- Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, New York)
- Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York)
- Technische Universität Berlin - EUREF Campus (Berlin, Germany)
- Technological University of Panama (El Dorado, Panamá)
- The Manchester School of Architecture (Manchester, England)
- The Pennsylvania State University (Centre County, Pennsylvania)
- The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
- The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
- United States Military Academy at West Point (West Point, New York)
- Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil)
- University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign County, Illinois)
- University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, Missouri)
- University of Portland (Portland, Oregon)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Virginia)
- Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)
- West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia)
- Western New England University (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut).
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition that challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. The winners will be those teams that best blend architectural and engineering excellence with innovation, market potential, building efficiency, and smart energy production.
The Solar Decathlon continues to “push the envelope” on the design of the most high-performance, efficient, affordable, innovative buildings while leveraging opportunities to showcase student innovation and STEM education, as well as to foster workforce development opportunities.
Learn more about the Solar Decathlon competition.
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