About Our Project

Capstone groups from the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2018 semesters partnered with RTCC to build this map application as a visual representation of municipal and university cleantech projects in the Research Triangle area. In addition to gathering all the project data, we also identified resources and advantages that the Triangle has that would be beneficial to any incoming Cleantech industries looking to move here. The spring 2018 group wrote a paper summarizing these resources, putting them into the context of innovation hub theory. We compared this region's assets and policies to those of Austin, San Diego, and Berlin to further put the Triangle's work in perpective. Finally we used the report to make recommendations on what the Triangle could be doing to better to turn itself into a global leader in Cleantech.

Class: ENEC 698 is a required course for Environmental Science and Environmental Studies majors at UNC-Chapel Hill. The premise of the course focuses on applying skills learned throughout an undergraduate career to a real-world problem. This project was created through a joint team of ENEC and SILS students. Spring 2018 students: Nicole Affleck, Kaitlyn Ave'Lallemant, Sydney Dobrzynski, Hart Evans, Heloise Hedlund, Jessica Hoffman, Diego Miller-hernandez, and Ryan Theurer. Fall 2017 students: Brittany Baporis, Bronwyn Bishop, Jonathan "Shep" Byles, Samantha Haughton, Andrew Jacober, Zhangsinong "Bill" Liu, Johanna Schaaper, Chudi Zhong