DENTON (UNT), Texas – University of North Texas graduate students Joseph Koruth and Carlos Pena-Sanchez demonstrated the strength of UNT’s energy engineering program beating out students from the world’s top schools at the Winnovation case competition in Aarhus, Denmark, on Feb. 3.
The students made the 14-hour journey home from Denmark as members of the first place and runner-up teams in the competition, which is sponsored by leading wind-energy company Vestas and challenges graduate students to develop out-of-the-box ways to reduce the cost and improve the quality of wind energy.
Pena-Sanchez was part of the winning team and won a cash prize to be used on airfare for an around-the-world trip, which he plans to use to fund his honeymoon later this spring. Koruth was a member of the runner-up team and won an assortment of prizes. UNT and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Zaragoza were the only universities to have two students make it to the final round of competition.
Koruth and Pena-Sanchez submitted a solution to the competition in November, and in December they were notified that they were among the 27 finalists selected to make the all-expenses-paid trip to Denmark to participate in the Winnovation finals. Finalists were selected from a pool of hundreds of students from more than 40 countries based on the innovation and viability of their solutions.
Once they arrived at Vestas’ research and development headquarters in Aarhus, they were put on separate teams for the remaining stages of the competition.
“We were disappointed that we were put on separate teams and had to compete against each other, but when it came down to the final round we were just glad that UNT would be represented on the winning team,” said Pena-Sanchez.
Both students are pursuing their master’s degree from
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Resumen: University of North Texas graduate students Joseph Koruth and Carlos Pena-Sanchez demonstrated the strength of UNT’s energy engineering program beating out students from the world’s top schools at the Winnovation case competition in Aarhus, Denmark, on Fe
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