Environmental Engineering
The inspiration for this 3-year study comes from a desire to find a better way to prevent barnacle growth on marine vessels and to determine if the type of hull material used in the manufact…
Environmental Engineering
Due to the general opinion that carrier plastic bags represent ecological burden to the environment, the number of measures aimed to reduce their consumption has increased recently. Conseque…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Many plants native to the Coastal Sage Scrub plant community are being crowded out by invasive plant species that compete for space, nutrients and water. In Encinitas, the S…
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal contamination in soil negatively impacts the environment and human health. It has been linked to multiple disorders and symptoms such as bone fractures, kidney damage, neurologic…
Environmental Engineering
The goal of my project was to improve elements of the supercapacitor constructed in Phase I to achieve a desired voltage, capacitance, resistance, and discharge rate. The procedure from Phas…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals 22% of California's community water systems rely on contaminated groundwater.Activated carbon filters are expensive and nonrenewable.The goal of my project is to construct a…
Environmental Engineering
Metal treatment through galvanic processes is becoming more and more indispensable with climate change, increasing pollution levels and acid rain. Its wastewater treatment creates a hazardou…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Bee populations are declining rapidly. In the last year we had a bee loss of over 32%! Because bees pollinate every 1 in 3 bites we eat, I set out to find a method of effici…
Environmental Engineering
There is an acute shortage of accessible freshwater. Desalination can create freshwater from seawater, but current techniques are expensive and require energy and maintenance. This research,…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Heavy metal contamination in the environment, specifically in aquatic systems, has been a top concern for nearly 100 years. This heavy metal contamination is found at nearly every one of the…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Every year, over 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere due to various human related activities. With excess CO2 production, many critical problems arise such as…
Environmental Engineering
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of infeasible and inaccurate deployable pH sensors not suited for the marine environment reduce the quantity of accurate…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
The EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act establishes the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic, the #1-ranked toxin, in public water systems. The limit was reduced from 50 ppb to 10 ppb becau…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
One of the direst threats to our ecosystems and public health is heavy metal pollution. The results of ecological bio-magnification and accumulation in animal and human tissues has led to th…
Environmental Engineering
Every day millions of loads of laundry including synthetics are done in the United States alone. During washing, microplastic fibers are released from the fabric and discharged into the wast…
Environmental Engineering
We present a sustainable self-managed seawater desalination device model that can desalinate seawater and reduce biofouling on semipermeable membrane using energy from the Sun and the tidal…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Lead pollution caused by industrial runoff can have a severe impact on the environment as well as on human health. This study evaluated the use of algal biomass as an ecologically friendly a…
Environmental Engineering
Plastic is an essential part of our daily life and because of its unique properties, it is involved in different industries and consumed by everyday activities and has a lot of benefits that…
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Globally, 1.3 billion tons of waste are generated per year, with production set to double by 2025. Such a large influx of refuse is costly, inefficient, and poses an environmental and public…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
Objectives/Goals An explosion occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 due to sinking polluted soil. The use of chemicals and human industrial activity contributes greatly to soil contaminatio…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Fertilizers containing nitrogen continue to be an integral aspect of the farming economy in the Midwest. Excess run-off of nitrates has become an environmental hazard. When the growth of alg…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The prototype product consisted of a Shower water diversion module to divert water from the shower into the toilet tank and a Toilet tank filling module that allows the toil…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
In April 2017, a US District Court overturned the exemption concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) enjoyed from air emission control rules. Odor, ammonia and/or hydrogen sulfide emis…
Environmental Engineering
Current wastewater treatments are complex, costly and leads to secondary pollution. Algal bioremediation is a viable alternative to removing heavy metals and toxic organic compounds from was…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project is to learn how fast things decompose in different environmental conditions. I did this project because grocery stores are now charging for plastic bags to encour…
Environmental Engineering
Fatbergs are deposits of fats, oils, and greases that are formed through the same process by which soap is made. They are responsible for major sewer blockages throughout the world, and requ…
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics are of much environmental concern due to its pollution of waterways and its impact on various aspects on ecosystems. While water treatment plants are effective at filtering mos…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Plastic pollution is a major world problem; the burning of fossil fuels from petroleum-based plastics is a major contributor to global warming. Plastic kills thousands of marine species ever…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research is to find the best design for a small scale anaerobic digester which could effectively transform biomass into biofuel using the least amount…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals We are designing a submersible R.O.V that collects microplastic beads in the ocean. These are particles of plastic that are mostly found in hygienic products that are harmfu…