Georgia Institute of Technology

Although construction won’t begin until the spring semester of 2017, students have been working since 2015 to design the Solar Home at Georgia Tech that will be entered in the next Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.

ISyE alumna Trisha Long (B.S. IE 2015) has interned for various utility companies and worked with a sustainability focus since she was at Georgia Tech. Currently, she applies her ISyE skills as a commodity leader for Upwind Solutions, a San Diego-based technology company that specializes in wind power services – from engineering to maintenance to parts servicing – a role she discusses in the following interview. 

An estimated 7 million Haitians live without access to reliable power, but thanks a Georgia Tech student team and their benefactors, a remote village health clinic now has electricity 24/7.