Environmental Engineering
First Award
1.1 billion individuals worldwide, particularly low-income workers in remote settings, are unknowingly exposed to dangerous gaseous concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), accor…
Environmental Engineering
The goal is to determine if the scientist could create an easily accessible database of sea turtle blood images and an open-sourced machine learning algorithm that partners with a developing…
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays, packaging waste is a prevalent issue due to the increase in deliveries from online shopping. In this research, a new approach to the issue of cardboard box packaging waste is propo…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Currently, there is an urgent need to develop a system for practical in-field pest early detection to combat grasshopper invasions of farmland. This research proposes the first novel visual-…
Environmental Engineering
Benzene, a pollutant found in air is a carcinogenic agent. This is mainly found in gasoline. The chemical can spread out as it is released through the car’s emissions. Residents who live in…
Environmental Engineering
Ambient air pollution contributes to a 7-million annual mortality rate, with gas-powered vehicles among the leading contributors. The current technology being used within gas-powered vehicle…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Despite vigorous recycling efforts, nearly 350 million tons of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—plastic commonly used to package foods and beverages—accumulate annually, posing a serious thr…
Environmental Engineering
Each year, 76% of plastic waste is sent to the landfill, 16% incinerated polluting our airways, and 7% lost to pollute the environment. I wanted to find a way to recycle plastic water bottle…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
My science experiment is about Hermetia Illucens (a.k.a., “Black Soldier Fly”). The larvae (“BSFL”) from this fly can quickly eat food waste items and turn them into much needed protein and…
Environmental Engineering
Today, the largest economic activity in the Mixtec region of Tepexi de Rodriguez, Puebla is the marble industry. This has brought great benefits to its inhabitants. However, large amounts of…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Currently, massive shield muck generated from urban metro construction is being transported outside and dumped regarding its undesirable engineering properties. Meanwhile, large amounts of i…
Environmental Engineering
Walking through the streets of Budapest, Washington, and the biggest cities we can notice a common issue: we have failed to develop and sustain an accurate waste management system. Behind th…
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to demonstrate the potential to predict soil temperature through a machine-learning approach, within a South African domestic garden environment. The vision of the project…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
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Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Every year in the US, millions of roadkill accidents occur making wildlife vehicle collisions (WVCs) a significant danger to both animals and humans. In addition, road networks become abioti…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which color of solar powered water purification device would purify water at the fastest rate. The hypothesis was if the bottom of a water pur…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
The world is being faced with the detrimental crisis of litter pollution. Clean-up attempts would require precious human effort and widespread usage of expensive energy. However, if a robot…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
The utilization of pesticides to protect agricultural productions and insect infestations for health and hygienic purposes has raised great concerns in the literature associated with soil, w…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Agricultural tile drainage, a method of providing drainage for fields, can cause large amounts of nutrients to be leached out of fields. Nutrients can be absorbed into the rainwater, which i…
Environmental Engineering
According to World Health Organization, by 2030, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths annually. One of the most critical factors leading to increased c…
Environmental Engineering
2 billion people lack access to safe, clean drinking water in their homes. Of those, 8 out of 10 lacking basic drinking water services live in remote or rural areas without coordinated water…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Clean water scarcity and food waste management are major environmental concerns worldwide. Food wastes are rich in bioactive compounds that are currently being disposed of in landfills, gene…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Water pollution is an issue that affects living organisms worldwide. As human activity continues to increase pollution in our oceans, the livelihood of all marine creatures is affected, from…
Environmental Engineering
Cord-making is a simple skill that has been used for thousands of years, yet very few people in the modern world know anything about the process. The purpose of this project was to determine…
Environmental Engineering
Water quality describes the condition of water based on its chemical, physical, and biological state. Poor water quality poses health risks to humans and the environment, causing disease, an…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The rise of the fast fashion and textile industries has proliferated the release of toxic azo dye effluent into the environment, contributing to ~20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dye…
Environmental Engineering
The project deals with how microplastics can be filtered out of washing machine wastewater. 35% of the microplastic released into our environment comes from washing machine wastewater. Our t…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Surfactant research is a rapidly developing field due to its booming applications in many fundamental industries such as detergents, fabric softeners, emulsions, and most importantly, corros…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Produced water (PW) generated during oil and gas production is primarily disposed of through deep-well injection, which is costly and induces seismicity. PW treatment and reuse can enhance e…