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May 16, 2012
Students Compete to Design Energy-Efficient Appliances
What is an efficient building without efficient appliances? That's the question students must face as part of the Energy Department's Max Tech and Beyond competition. This program challenges university students to design highly efficient, next-generation appliances and commercial equipment.
Helping American consumers and businesses save money by saving energy is a major part of the Obama administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy. Challenging America's students to find energy saving solutions is one of the ways the Energy Department is working to bring the best and brightest to the challenge of saving energy.
Initiated in 2010, the Max Tech competition first began by ranking the energy saving potential of appliances and commercial equipment to identify the appliances that had the most potential for technological advancement. Then in June 2011, organizers sent a request for proposals to university engineering and science departments across the nation, asking students to develop new, next-generation appliance and commercial equipment designs that demonstrate high energy savings. See the complete story on the Energy Blog.
