SPaRK Lab
Lab News
1/2024 - SPaRK Lab secured a new location within the IDRB at UTEP!
1/2024 - SPaRK Lab was awarded the UTEP URI grant!
10/2023 - René and Jesus became part of the SPaRK Lab team!
09/2023 - Dr. Cho joined UTEP, marking the establishment of SPaRK Lab!
Who are we?
The mission of SPaRK Lab is to decarbonize medium-to-heady duty vehicles, using "renewable fuels" such as biofuels, e-fuels, ammonia, hydrogen, etc. We are particularly interested in i) designing the novel molecular structure of renewable fuel, ii) understanding the combustion kinetics of given fuel candidates, and iii) predicting the designed fuel’s performance in the propulsion systems using physics-based simulation.