Gregory Washington, dean of the Samueli School of Engineering, and fellow faculty from the four schools beamed. Limpinsel laughed: “Euiso’s right that says it much better.” “Whoooooo! Yahooooo!!” shouted UCI electrical engineering student Euiso Kim behind him. I’m glad the jury acknowledged our unique designs.” “We wanted to show that these new technologies can replace business as usual. “We really pushed the envelope in big ways,” said project engineer Moritz Limpinsel, a UCI graduate student studying chemical and materials physics.
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The 100-plus students, faculty and sponsors who worked on Casa del Sol saw some of their unique devices break down during the contest, including a crack in the inverter the judges’ praise vindicated their boundary-stretching designs and hard work. The win on the last day of a grueling two-year competition was met with jubilant cheers and fist pumps. Team OC scored just one point less in the engineering contest than Stevens Institute of Technology, which won the overall decathlon for their disaster-response themed solar home. Judges cited a “dazzling display” of technologies, including a first-ever bi-directional inverter that converts the sun’s rays into direct current to power an electric car, a paraffin lined clothes dryer and other energy-saving features.
Jurors praised their net zero energy Casa del Sol home as “the most innovative in the entire competition.”
Team Orange County, the hometown entry led by University of California, Irvine with Chapman University, Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College, scored big in the prestigious engineering contest at the U.S.
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