page_title: Solar Decathlon
section_title: 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Solar Decathlon / Competitors / 2015
caption_attribution_description: English: Missouri S&amp;T Solar Decathlon house
context_page_description: The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition, comprising 10 contests, that challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. The winners will be those teams that best blend design architectural and engineering excellence with innovation, market potential, building efficiency, and smart energy production. In the summer of 2018, DOE merged its two student building design competitions into one Solar Decathlon competition.
  The combined competition features two tracks, the Design Challenge and the Build Challenge. The Solar Decathlon provides a hands-on experience and unique training that prepares the competing students to enter the clean energy workforce. This international competition has been a driving force in raising awareness about clean energy since its inception in 2002. Technologies and solutions used in Solar Decathlon homes have advanced the residential building industry both in the United States and abroad.
  After the first Solar Decathlon was held in 2002, the competition occurred biennially in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
context_section_description: Teams selected for the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition held at Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California:
  California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, CA)
  California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento, CA)
  Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
  Crowder College (Neosho, MO) and Drury University (Springfield, MO)
  Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla, MO)
  New York City College of Technology (New York, NY)
  State University of New York at Alfred College of Technology and Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
  Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) winner 2015
  University of Florida, National University of Singapore, and Santa Fe College
  The University of Texas at Austin and Technische Universitaet Muenchen
  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  University of California, Davis
  University of California, Irvine; Chapman University; Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College
  Vanderbilt University and Middle Tennessee State University
  West Virginia University and University of Roma Tor Vergata
  Western New England University, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, and Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana
caption: Just as birds use materials from their environment to build a nest, Missouri University of Science and Technology reused common materials to build its U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 entry.
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