Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to provide clean drinking water to people in third world countries. Methods/Materials 2 liter plastic bottles, 1 liter plastic bottle, vario…
Environmental Engineering
Contamination in water poses a serious and mostly undetected threat. It is necessary for people to have an economical option to test the water they drink in their own homes. The goal of this…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
This research has created an innovative gas-separation membrane by combining inorganic membranes with polymeric membranes. A highly selective polymer (polybenzimidazole) and a highly permeab…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Arsenic, “king of poisons,” threatens public health on an unprecedented scale with over 140 million people in 50 countries drinking water contaminated with arsenic at levels above the EPA/WH…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of my experiment was to determine if seeding Pseudomonas putida (applying a bacterial aerosol treatment to the surface of the sheen) will reduce the area of oil sheen on hydrocar…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine how the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans (ATCC? 55486) was affected by the presence of cis-DCE as it was degraded by…
Environmental Engineering
Our team designed a generator using environmental-friendly energy by using materials that are easily available around. Developing countries have very low electricity generation systems and v…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of the research work is to eliminate toxic metals As and Pb from the Tacna water supply using vegetable residues for the Biosorption process. The biomass used is composed of oliv…
Environmental Engineering
Human beings are exposed to mercury every day, either through their domestic or work environment. In 2017, a study was developed which assessed mercury contamination in a group of students,…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the most effective soil erosion control products under wind erosion simulations and also subsequently how effective these c…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create a device that uses cheap and readily available materials to extract moisture from the atmosphere and produce clean water without f…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The object of this study is to determine if potable water was not available could you use materials in a common backyard to filter bacteriological and suspended contaminates…
Environmental Engineering
The United States is the leading producing country of corn. The European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, are pests of grains, particularly corn. They are North Dakota’s number one corn pest…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create or find the most effective biodegradable mesh out of burlap, cotton, linen and cotton/rayon to replace the nylon or polypropylene…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Biodiesel has attracted considerable attention during the past decade as a renewable, biodegradable, and nontoxic fuel. In general, biodiesel is obtained from oils and animal fat; however, h…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To determine the highest amount of biogas generated from three waste food sources (mashed banana, chicken skin, potato peels) upon decomposition. Methods/Materials Fresh cow…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to implement the systems that Cathedral Termites have created to keep their mounds at a consistent temperature into sustainable housing. Metho…
Environmental Engineering
The Brazilian textile industry has been a highlight of the global economy. However, this industry generates great quantities of effluents that present high concentrations of dyes and chemica…
Environmental Engineering
Fertilization of food crops is necessary to improve yields within the short growing season of the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Does nutrient management assist in the stability of pond e…
Environmental Engineering
Turbidity is an underestimated issue when analyzing water quality. Turbidity, the amount of sedimentation in water, is calculated in the the units of NTU(Nephelometric Turbidity Units) . Tur…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to find out whether used coffee grounds can absorb heavy metals from lead contaminated water. Methods/Materials Materials: ~168.816* millilite…
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is the result of an increment of nutrients in bodies of water. This produces an explosive growth of natural organic matter (NOM). As a result, the concentration of oxygen dimi…
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…