HBCU Program at Tennessee State University

Historically and predominantly black colleges and universities (HBCUs) need to have a strong research capability to graduate engineering students with strong skills for competing in industry. The US Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) Office of Building Technologies (OBT) is working with HBCUs to help them develop that capability through its HBCU Program. The HBCU program has two goals: to help these institutions develop a research capability; to contribute to OBT`s research needs. The program accomplishes these goals by helping institutions select a research topic with a strong engineering or science content, prepare a research proposal, and execute the work. This pamphlet describes the research on heat pump refrigerants at Tennessee State University