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Julia Ho, a second-year doctoral student in architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to receive the Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship. She is the first Penn State student to be selected for the fellowship since the program began in 2021.
Starting this fall, Ho will work on creating a modeling toolkit to evaluate the feasibility of low-carbon heating and cooling systems for rural communities, considering variables such as geography, climate, population density and housing stock.
“Julia joined Penn State because of her passion for sustainability and desire for making a positive impact to the society through research,” he said. “As a graduate research assistant, Julia works to develop open-source models for the design and operation of grid-interactive energy efficient district energy systems. The district energy system proposed in Julia’s IBUILD research is a much-needed innovative solution for future electrification and decarbonization.”
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