Environmental Engineering
Objectives The objective of this project is to study if different nut hulls (almond and walnut) affect water retention in soil. Methods Added ground up almond hulls and walnut hulls to loam…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Last year I tested the Escondido Creek water quality at different locations attempting to find the source of problems that the Escondido Creek is notorious for. I wondered if ther…
Environmental Engineering
In India, small shops and houses are constructed from cement bricks with metal sheets as roofs due to which temperature is high inside particularly in summer. Biodegradable thermal insulator…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives ABSTRACT Our science project is about protecting the environment by eliminating the use of plastic water bottles and minimizing water wastage, fertilizer runoff in gardening plant…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives According to the World Health Organization, globally 1.8 billion people are drinking contaminated water. Distributed water, surface water, and ground water are contaminated due to…
Environmental Engineering
Solid waste management is a major concern for Pakistan like many other developing countries. Now with arising climatic impacts on hand, waste management has become an inevitable problem for…
Environmental Engineering
In Brazil, the consumption of coconut products (Cocos Nucifera) has grown substantially in recent years. This contributed significantly to the intensification of fruit production and cultiva…
Environmental Engineering
Rapidly developing industrial processes and manufacturing are releasing an alarming and overwhelming surplus of 29 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, adding to the natural disch…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
In the place that we live, an extremely rare and beautiful plant is on the verge of extinction. It is being threatened by the fungus known as Rapid Ohia Death (R.O.D). Rapid Ohia Death can b…
Environmental Engineering
Weathering and erosion of soils causes fine-grained silts and clays to flow with water and clog the navigation channels in the State of Maryland. Dredging these fine-grained soils with lots…
Environmental Engineering
Taking into account the environmental problems associated with plastics, it is increasingly necessary to look for less harmful alternatives, such as bioplastics. However, most existing biopl…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives The problem I researched was water evaporation in uncovered finished water reservoirs. My goal was to determine which cover prevents the most water evaporation: white shade balls,…
Environmental Engineering
Graphene is a one-atom-thick allotrope of carbon that has a hexagonal lattice structure, and it has good adsorption and conduction characteristics. Graphene sand is a composite of sand coate…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives The purpose of this project is to build a new greenhouse to replace modern greenhouses by making it more space efficient, cost-efficient, and low maintenance. Methods The main mat…
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills are a daunting threat all around the world and the current forms of remediation are costly, inefficient and toxic. Oil spills, therefore, are economically burdening and have a dev…
Environmental Engineering
There are already hundreds of different ways to create clean water. Yet in the world today, thousands of people don't have access to this necessity because of their lack of time, money and t…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives An ongoing problem in parts of the world is a lack of access to water. This project used the Engineering Design Process to create an H2O generator. The goal for H2O Generator was…
Environmental Engineering
In search of higher productivity, some farmers are installing drain tile systems in their fields. Although they can increase yields, drain tiling can harm the environment through fertilizer…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Plastic pollution is a major problem all around the world. I constantly ask what we could be doing so far as dumping our plastic waste in dumpsters. My objective for this project…
Environmental Engineering
In a polluted world driven by energy consumption, one innovative idea, the microbial fuel cell (MFC), has risen as a solution to anthropogenic demands. MFCs are biological reactor systems th…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives In order to solve the problem of expensive clean up methods for oil-spills in the ocean, we decided to design an efficient device by improving upon the existing oil clean up equip…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Contaminated water, caused by organic dyes pollutants, is a serious problem and concern worldwide. It could cause waterborne diseases and chronic health consequences. Photocatalysts have bee…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Design an affordable immersion heater that can alleviate the high numbers of indoor air pollution in the global developing population. The heater must cost lest than $2 in raw mat…
Environmental Engineering
Approximately 300 million tons of single-use plastic each year is discarded. It takes 450 years for a bottle to decompose. This project’s focus is to identify environmentally friendly method…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Our goal was to see if the change of slope effects how well a bioswale filters water. Methods We built a bioswale that we could change to different slopes, and poured polluted wat…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Objectives Trillions of pieces of trash currently pollute the ocean, which greatly harm marine life and the environment. Our goal is to design, build, and test an autonomous prototype boat t…
Environmental Engineering
Over 300 million tons of plastic waste is produced annually, and over 270 million tons of that waste is sent to landfills. This research hopes to better characterize plastic consumption in B…
Environmental Engineering
Lowering the Level of Toxic Wastes in the Environment with the Use of Ionization Principles Nigar Bakhshaliyeva School-Lyceum N6, Baku, Azerbaijan The purpose of my project is to make our pl…
Environmental Engineering
Harmful algal blooms (HAB) is a catastrophic phenomenon brought by high phosphate levels affecting bodies of water causing negative impacts to the environment, economic and public health con…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives The intent of this project is to create a device that will monitor the health of plants in order to maximize plant production using less water. Given that there is no standard for…