Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment

App students needed for Solar District Cup Team

App Students Needed for Multi-Disciplinary Solar District Cup Team
Oct 21, 2022

We are soliciting applications of Appalachian State University students from different departments for a mutidisciplinary team to develop a project fo...

Solar-Ops technicians Calian Micallef, Jack Lundie, and Caroline Piephoff. Both Jack (STBE) and Caroline (Physics) are App State alumni.

Solar-Ops and App State Partner on New EV Charging Station Monitor
Oct 13, 2022

Solar Operations Solutions (Solar-Ops), in collaboration with Appalachian State University's Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Envi...

Pat McAfee stepping in to App State's solar car

Pat McAfee Signs the Solar Car
Oct 10, 2022

During all the excitement of College Gameday visiting App State on Sept. 17 and a last-second win vs. Troy, we missed a few things. One of the things ...

Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment Receives Zero Energy Design Designation

Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment Receives Key Designation From the DOE
Sep 28, 2022

The Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment earned the first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation from the U.S. Department of ...

Mikayla Posey

Mikayla Posey Awarded Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment Endowed Scholarship
Nov 22, 2021

Mikayla Posey"This scholarship has allowed me to focus on graduating and on my classes. This year, I do not have to work two jobs while taking maximum...

Tyree Wilmoth

Graduate Student Looks For Ways To Help Others Access Clean Water
May 4, 2021

By Amanda Brasier A brief moment observing two young Rwandan boys gathering water from a rural pond influenced Tyree Wilmoth’s decision to dedi...

Sam Lee

Grad Student Draws on Love of Outdoors to Pursue Advanced Degree
Dec 9, 2020

By Amanda BrasierGraduate student Sam Lee said although he was sad not to visit family, there was an upside to skipping his normal Thanksgiving gather...

D. Jason Miller, associate dean of Appalachian’s College of Fine and Applied Arts and associate professor in the college’s Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment (STBE), in his classroom. Miller was the recipient of the 2019 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. Photo submitted

‘Holding space’ in synchronous studio meetings Q&A with D. Jason Miller
Jun 30, 2020

“This atmosphere of shared learning and shared ideas relies on proximity and access to a shared space. In the shift to an online studio environment,...

Dirty photovoltaic panels can impact energy yield

The wipe down on clean energy
Jun 8, 2020

For photovoltaic (PV) panels, which convert sunlight into clean, renewable energy, what’s on their surface matters — a layer of dust and/or dirt b...

Welcome home — first App Builds a Home project is dedicated
Jun 1, 2020

The welcome mat is on the porch and the first completed home built through a partnership between Appalachian State University’s App Builds a Ho...