WWU team designs insert to make windows generate power

By April 19, 2017 4:37 pm

KGMICourtesy Western Washington UniversityAt Tuesday's Institute for Energy Studies symposium at Western Washington University, Gov. Jay Inslee took a moment to congratulate WWU team members, from left, Ben Anderson (MBA, Story City, Iowa), Quae Atwood (Electrical Engineering, Bellingham), Cole Rogers (Electrical Engineering, Ferndale), and Amy Morren (Chemistry, Cleveland, Ohio) on their recent win at the 2017 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC) hosted by the University of Washington’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.

KGMI News
by Tracy Ellis

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A big win for a team of Western Washington University students.

The group of business, chemistry, industrial design, and electrical engineering students won the $15,000 grand prize at the Environmental Innovation Challenge.

They developed an insert for regular glass windows that converts them into energy-producing solar windows.

Governor Inslee is impressed.

“Costs of the new sources of energy, thankfully, are coming down very quickly, in part because of the great technological strides that are [made] in our state,” Inslee said during his visit to Bellingham Tuesday.

Four Whatcom County students were on the winning team: Cole Rogers and Giovanni Segar of Ferndale, Quae Atwood from Bellingham and Edward Hanko of Lynden.