Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Wildfires affect the lives of many California residents, costing counties billions of dollars in damages and impacting the health of those in the near proximity due to prolonged smoke inhala…
Environmental Engineering
Automated Recyclable Management (ARM) is a synthesis object detection network and affordable hardware prototype designed to automate the process of recyclable waste classification. By employ…
Environmental Engineering
Due to humans' heavy, global dependence on petroleum as an energy source and material, oil extraction and processing efforts happen in many environments and involve mass transportation acros…
Environmental Engineering
Uzuri Production is a project with the aim of making BIOCHAR an environmentally friendly product from waste with the aim of making a highly efficient and productive material that will in the…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
In August 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Clean Truck Plan, proposed new standards to promote clean air and reduce pollution from heavy-duty vehicles starting in…
Environmental Engineering
Finding out that plastic polybag is one of the materials that take a very long time to degrade was one of the issues that prompted us to come up with this idea. As a result, we used durian a…
Environmental Engineering
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, gas-powered lawnmowers make up five percent of total air pollution in the United States. In this project, a homemade bubble column reacto…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if carbon dioxide (CO2) from combustion emissions could be effectively removed using post-combustion water absorption. Combustions sources acr…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The oceans absorb nearly a third of airborne CO2 emissions, while 1.3 million gallons of crude oil are spilled into oceans every year. Both issues continue to detrimentally affect marine bio…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
The objective of our project is to minimize marine pollution by creating a robot that can recognize and collect aluminum cans on a beach, before they reach the ocean. Aluminum is toxic to aq…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Objectives: According to the CDC, nearly 40 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes, and 3.08 million middle/high school students use at least one tobacco product. Each year, nearly half a mill…
Environmental Engineering
This research is about decomposing artificial materials with oyster mushrooms. The author chose this topic as there is a huge amount of plastic on earth that could be broken down. The subjec…
Environmental Engineering
Through increasing usage of toxic substances in anthropogenic activities, contamination in the natural environment has become a major problem. To combat this increasing threat, native Hawaii…
Environmental Engineering
During many industrial fires, the chemicals released from the incineration of materials inside the building and ones commonly used by firefighters to extinguish the fire are often picked up…
Environmental Engineering
Water is one of the most essential facets of human life, yet billions of people worldwide, especially in remote areas, do not have access to safe drinking water. Harmful microorganisms in co…
Environmental Engineering
With rapidly increasing global temperatures, fires have increased dramatically in both magnitude and number. Such fires can prove disastrous to the general population; in California, for exa…
Environmental Engineering
From 2005 to 2050, crop demands will increase by 100% to 110% and 50% of land will not be suitable for agriculture (Monsees, 2019). To address this issue of land depletion, we engineered a c…
Environmental Engineering
40% of the world’s population experiences water scarcity, this figure will only grow with climate change. Wells give many people access to water, but there are an increasing number of circum…
Environmental Engineering
The Four-Corners region of the Desert Southwest is where much of the Diné (Navajo) population lives remotely, in traditional Hoghans. These Hoghans neither have running water nor electricity…
Environmental Engineering
Purpose The emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect and warms the earth. In addition to reducing CO2 emissions, it is possible to actively remove the g…
Environmental Engineering
After Corona 19, plastic food packaging materials are emerging as the main culprit leading to the deepening of environmental pollution and climate change. It accounts for about 70% of the to…
Environmental Engineering
The goal of our project is to develop both an automatic and a manually operated device for cleaning small water bodies from domestic waste. It is known that the disposal of household waste s…
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays over 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea. The majority of the ships still run on fossil fuels, causing high levels of pollutant exhaust emissions. De…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
With climate change’s increasing impacts, we must reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, specifically methane, to lower the intensity of cascading disasters. In 2019, landfills contr…
Environmental Engineering
Water hardness, caused by calcium and magnesium ions, is a global problem that can have negative effects. In this study, we investigated the use of Jordanian zeolite as a cost-effective and…
Environmental Engineering
Management of waste plastic and the uneven distribution of electrical energy supply around the world are among the greatest challenges before the scientific community. The present work propo…
Environmental Engineering
E-waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, producing 20-50 million tons annually, and it is expected to reach 120 million tons by 2050. It is dangerous due to its poisonous co…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
This project explores the possibilities of pairing an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with a deep-learning computer vision model for marine debris mapping. A cost effective, 3D-printed A…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
What is the most cost-efficient design of a completely biodegradable water treatment system that uses aquatic plants to reduce the amount of eutrophication in leachate canals feeding the Ind…
Environmental Engineering
The significant increase in carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution has disrupted the natural carbon cycle, and establishing a new carbon cycle pathway is crucial to address this pr…