Our paper on the NEST HiLo module in Switzerland in collaboration with researchers at ETH Zurich entitled Coupling energy systems with lightweight structures for a net plus energy building has been published in Applied Energy. You can download your copy until Feb 11th from Science Direct: Read more
Internship/Thesis project in Data-driven Building Energy Optimization
Update (April, 2017): This internship is not available anymore. IEL is looking for a motivated, hard-working UT engineering student (CE, ARE, ME, EE, CS) to assist our research in building energy optimization. The prospective student will work closely with the Energy Management and Optimization Read more
Jose Ramon Vazqez joins IEL
Jose is joining IEL in the Fall'16 semester as a PhD student. His research will focus on smart & sustainable cities. Welcome José! Read more
Welcome Sara, Juan & Sid!
For the Fall'2106 semester, three undergraduate researchers have joined IEL: Juan Jasso: working on smart buildings and comfort. Sara Kingman: supporting us in the area of building control. Sid Kapur: applying machine learning techniques to building data. Welcome to IEL! Read more
Paper in Energy & Buildings
Our paper on occupant centered lighting control, which investigated the balancing between occupant comfort and satisfaction with energy savings of the lighting system has been published in Energy & Buildings. The experimental study was conducted in the Architecture & Building Systems Read more
