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Mines, Red Rocks Community College receive funding from DOE to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing

Rocky Mountain Industrial Assessment Center will train next generation of workers focused on energy efficiency Colorado School of Mines, together with Red Rocks Community College, were selected as part of a $60 million investment by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to fund its ... Read more

AMBER students win GRADS poster session awards

AMBER students took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the Mines GRADS poster session—and what's notable is that all three of them are undergraduates! Congratulations to Imani Garcia (junior) for 1st place in the Energy and Environment session; Ryan Evans (senior) for 2nd place in the Earth Science and ... Read more

Dr. Tabares-Velasco wins ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award

Congratulations to Dr. Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco for winning an ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award! The award was presented at the Society's 2021 Virtual Annual Conference. This award recognizes members who have served ASHRAE faithfully and with distinction on committees or otherwise giving ... Read more

New Signature Student Experience

Dr. Tabares-Velasco received approval for a new Signature Student Experience: Institute for Energy Efficient Communities with Flexible Loads. He will be creating new curricular content focused on energy and power issues related to connected communities. This will combine 1-credit classes, ... Read more

New papers in Applied Thermal Engineering and Applied Energy

Recently published journal articles from the AMBER group: Wijesuriya, Sajith, and Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco. "Empirical validation and comparison of methodologies to simulate micro and macro-encapsulated PCMs in the building envelope." Applied Thermal Engineering 188 (2021): ... Read more

Brandt defends MS thesis

Congratulations to Matthew Brandt, who successfully defended his MSc Thesis: Thermal Energy Storage and Electrochemical Energy Storage: An Analytical Method For Sizing And Analyzing Potential Synergies in Hybrid Systems. Back to News» Read more

Welcome, PhD candidate Gabriel Flechas!

Gabriel Flechas is the AMBER group's newest PhD candidate. He recently completed an MS in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. His research has focused on developing and validating OpenStudio models for buildings using cross laminated timber (CLT) and assessing its energy ... Read more

AMBER contributes to making the Mines campus safer during pandemic

Dr. Tabares-Velasco, along with Dr. Mahadevan Ganesh (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) and Alina Handorean (Engineering, Design and Society) was awarded an internal grant from the Office of Research and Technology Transfer to assess the effectiveness of modifications made to campus building ... Read more

Dr. Tabares-Velasco awarded seed funding for Mines-NREL collaborative research

Dr. Tabares-Velasco and Dr. Marcus Bianchi of NREL, were one of eight teams awarded seed funding from Nexus, the Mines-NREL partnership aimed at strengthening collaboration between the two organizations. Tabares-Velasco and Bianchi's award was for developing an NSF proposal on future dynamic ... Read more

New paper in Journal of Energy Storage

Drs. Wijesuriya and Tabares’ paper on phase change materials has been accepted in the Journal of Energy Storage: Experimental apparatus and methodology to test and quantify thermal performance of micro and macro-encapsulated phase change materials in building envelope applications Back to News» Read more

Tabares-Velasco wins US Forest Service Wood Innovations grant

Dr. Tabares-Velasco won funding from the U.S. Forest Service for a project to characterize the environmental and economic benefits of cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings. CLT is a mass timber material that has the potential to expand the wood building market in the U.S., but for broad ... Read more

Tabares-Velasco presents at ASHRAE 2020

Dr. Tabares-Velasco presented at the ASHRAE 2020 Virtual Conference. His papers were entitled "Effect of Convective Heat Transfer on PCM Thermal Performance" and "Whole Campus Energy Modeling for Research and Teaching Purposes." Back to News» Read more