SDLE Research Center

Overview of Services

The SDLE Research Center at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a world-class research center dedicated to data science and analytics applied to materials and energy science. Established in 2011 by Professor Roger H French, the SDLE Center focuses on:

Lifetime and degradation science of solar photovoltaic (PV) materials, and other environmentally exposed, long lived (>25 years) technologies.Accelerated laboratory and outdoor real-world exposures and evaluations of outdoor exposed technologies such as solar, led lighting and building envelope materials. Energy efficiency and virtual energy auditing of buildings, using engineering epidemiology and data analytics. Data-mining and statistical- and machine-learning applied to materials. Petabyte/Petaflop big data analytics applied to time-series, spectral and image datasets. Non-relational data warehousing and analytics environment for complex systems. 

Hours of Operation and Location

Links and Resources

1. SDLE Research Center