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The training videos are featured in new curriculum for power engineers that's part of a nationwide smart grid workforce training project sponsored by the Department of Energy.

Super Cool Appliance Design Wins Student Competition
The winners of the Max Tech and Beyond competition -- a team of University of Maryland students -- designed and built a prototype for a wall unit air conditioner that showed more than 30 percent energy savings when tested in a lab. | Photo courtesy of Yunho Hwang, University of Maryland.

Energy Department contest challenges university students to design the next generation of energy efficiency appliances.

Five Years of Building the Next Generation of Reactors
Simulated three-dimensional fission power distribution of a single 17x17 rod PWR fuel assembly. | Photo courtesy of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL).

A two-year update on the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors and the progress being made in overcoming barriers to national energy goals.

Helping Wisconsin Small Businesses Increase Sustainability

Almost 100 Wisconsin small- and medium-sized businesses have been helped thanks to the Wisconsin Profitable Sustainability Initiative.