Awards
Dr. Zuo will be leading a new project on "Modernizing Cities via Smart Garden Alleys with Application in Makassar City" funded by the National Science Foundation. This project is in collaboration with the US Department of State, Virginia Tech
Ph.D. candidate Xu Han has won the prestigious Strauch Family Graduate Fellowship for 2020. Congratulations to Xu for winning this distinguished scholarship!
Dr. Zuo received the Research Development Award for 2020 from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering. This award recognizes his “research accomplishments in developing a robust
Ph.D. student Jes Stershic has been awarded the 2020 CEAE Summer Fellowship. This fellowship will provide her with a 3-month stipend over the summer to support her research with the SBS lab. Congratulations Jes, we look forward to seeing your
Last week the Departement of Energy announced that our $4.16M proposal on Optimal Co-Design of Integrated Thermal-Electrical Networks and Control Systems for Grid-interactive Efficient District (GED) Energy Systems was awarded. A big
Ph.D. students Jing Wang, Jes Stershic, Cary Faulkner and Yingli Lou received scholarships to attend the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations to all receiving scholarships! In addition, Yingli presented her work on
Senior Ph.D. student Xu Han received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the department of Architectural Engineering to complete his thesis work this coming semester. His thesis work is on advanced modeling of thermal environment and energy
Ph.D. student Jes Stershic received a scholarship to attend the Energy Service Coalition’s 8th Annual Market Transformation Conference, in Denver, CO, held August 21-23, 2019. According to Jes, "The Energy Service Coalition was a unique
The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) has offered Katy $1,000 + $1,500 for travel expenses to attend their Project 1 meeting and Building Simulation conference in Rome, Italy during September 2-4, 2019.
From June 2–7, Prof. Zuo was selected to attend this year's ExCEEd Teaching Workshop and has been named ExCEEd Teaching Fellows by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Congratulations! The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop is a six-day