Our awesome undergraduate research assistant Julien Brown has received a $1000 scholarship from the UT Senate of College Councils . This honors his excellent work on analyzing the energy demand of the West Campus neighborhood under the impact of climate change and population growth. This work is in Read more 

Jose is heading to Berkeley, CA today where he is presenting a poster on Adaptive demand response using multi-agent reinforcement learning in urban environments at the 2019 Rosenfeld Syposium hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From their website: The Rosenfeld Symposium will explore Read more 

Dr Nagy and June are heading to San Antonio, TX, to attend the 4th Int'l Symposium on Occupant Behavior (OB-19) [3/13—3/15]. Topics of this high profile symposium include Human building interactions Personalized comfort and building controls Modeling and simulation of occupant behavior Read more 

For the second year in a row, IEL was present at ExploreUT last Saturday (3/2). Megan and Sepehr introduced participants to Environmental Sensing with Arduino. Participants learned about sensors, resistors, LEDs, microcontrollers and how all of those fit together. Read more 

We're excited that Megan is joining IEL as PhD student to continue her work on automated fault detection for air handling units. We are double excited that her research will be embedded in and supported by Siemens Building Technologies in Austin, TX, where she works as a data scientist. Read more