Association of Energy Engineers Student Chapter at Arizona State University®
Energy is changing.
Come understand what comes next.
We are the student chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers at ASU. We run workshops, speaker sessions, site visits and competitions for students who want to understand how energy systems actually work — and work on them.
01 / What we are
Energy is not one discipline. It is power systems and buildings and batteries and chemistry and software and money and policy, all at once.
AEE at ASU brings together students from engineering, sustainability, business, computing, science and policy around that reality. The chapter exists to close the gap between what you learn in a course and what the people running Arizona’s energy systems deal with on a Tuesday.
In practice that means technical workshops, speakers from industry and research, lab and site visits, competitions, and the kind of introductions that are hard to make on your own.
02/What we explore
Six areas the chapter
programs around.
- 01
Power & Grid
How electricity actually gets made, moved and paid for — and what keeps the Arizona grid standing up in August.
Grid reliability · Utilities · Transmission · Distributed energy
- 02
Renewables & Storage
Solar, batteries and the engineering problems that show up once you try to run a system on them.
Solar & PV · Battery systems · Storage economics · Interconnection
- 03
Buildings & Efficiency
Auditing, measurement and controls — the work behind AEE's own certifications, and the fastest energy you can save.
Energy audits · HVAC & controls · Measurement · Retrofits
- 04
AI & Data Centers
New load arriving faster than new generation. Forecasting, siting, cooling, and what data centers mean for Phoenix.
Load growth · Forecasting · Cooling · Siting
- 05
Materials & Manufacturing
Semiconductors, power electronics and the materials work that decides how efficient a device can get.
Semiconductors · Power electronics · Energy materials · Fabrication
- 06
Markets, Policy & Startups
Rate design, regulation and the companies being built around them — including the ones started here.
Energy markets · Regulation · Startups · Finance
03/What's happening
Coming up
AUG19
2026
Taste of the MU
Come find our table, meet the officers and ask what the chapter is doing this year. No commitment — turn up and talk.
- Date
- Time
- 5:00–8:00 PM
- Location
- Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Tempe campus
Community
AUG24
2026
Student Organizations Open House
The big fall org fair. We will be there the whole time — a good first stop if you are new to ASU and want in on the energy side of campus.
- Date
- Time
- 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
- Location
- Student Pavilion, 1st Floor, Tempe campus
Community
04/From the chapter
The chapter’s flagship event, so far
Competition
ASU Energy Hackathon
April 18–19, 2026 · EDC 117
A 24-hour, prototype-first energy hackathon hosted by the chapter, run across four tracks with industry challenge statements, mentors on the floor and judging on Sunday morning.
- Format
- 24 hours, prototype-first
- Tracks
- AI, Software, Hardware, Efficiency
- With
- IEEE, ASME and Robotics at ASU
05 / Research
ASU runs one of the largest energy research operations in the country.
Grid and power systems, solar and photovoltaics, batteries and storage, power electronics, energy materials — most of it within a short walk of each other on the Tempe campus.
Most students never find it, because nobody explains where to look or how to write the email. We put the directories, the funded programs and the actual first steps in one place.
Join
You do not need an energy background. You need to be interested.
Undergraduates, graduate students and PhD students from any major are welcome — engineering, sustainability, business, computing, science, policy. Show up to one thing and see whether it is for you.