Tim Lentz, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Dubuque, is the project engineer for Iowa State’s Solar Decathlon Team, which is designing and building an energy-efficient solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy competition this fall in Washington, D.C. Read more.
Engineering Iowa State’s Solar Decathlon house
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