Environmental Engineering
“Clean, accessible water for all” and “affordable, reliable, modern energy” are two of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Electrocoagulation (EC), a form of green technology…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
This research was to design an artificial structure to house a calcite media that dissolves over an extended period of time and would have significant effects on (1) increasing the average o…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
An activated carbon foam surfaced carbon dioxide scrubber with an environmentally sustainable gas purification system using bicarbonate ions removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at low…
Environmental Engineering
There are millions of people in foreign regions that are suffering from famine while the U.S. contains over 40% of food waste. Atop of this, there is an anticipated burgeoning population tha…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
This experiment can be defined as having two parts: the predictive model for blue-green (cyanobacteria) algae blooms and the tests for ecological damage due to these blooms. A computer progr…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this research was to analyze the bioremediation potential of microbial communities isolated from termites: Nasutitermes genus and Ruminants: Capra aegagrus hircus, as an alter…
Environmental Engineering
In many areas across the world, airborne pollution is a major crisis. The main factor that leads to this is fuel emissions. There are a few articles in which people are using Titanium Dioxid…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
In 2016, 44.7 million metric tons of E-waste was generated globally out of which only 20% was recycled (UN, 2017). Our project explores how components of e-waste i.e. acrylonitrile butadiene…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Objectives The oceans contain over 97% of the earths water, however, only 1% of the worlds water is safe for human consumption, with 2.8 billion people currently living in water stressed are…
Environmental Engineering
According to an article by Standard Media, Kenya; water pollution levels across three continents, namely, Africa, Asia and Latin America have risen exponentially over the last ten years. (Ob…
Environmental Engineering
Globally, more than 1.3 million people die prematurely each year because of exposure to indoor air pollution due to the burning of biomass. The burning of wood and other solid materials for…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Water potability is a key challenge of modern civilization. Worldwide, two billion people lack access to clean drinking water and heavy metals are the primary toxic contaminants.…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Malnutrition is the leading cause of child death and treatment reaches only a small fraction of those in need due to costly recipes and inefficient supply chains. Here we develop a three-com…
Environmental Engineering
In order to develop a novel approach that improves on the state-of-the-art in ultrasonic marine growth control, the function of the leading commercially available device was analyzed. The de…
Environmental Engineering
Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) is a widely-used plastic with an annual production of 64 Million metric tons. It takes 500 years to degrade. Naturally-degrading LDPE emits methane and ethyle…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
Objectives Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) is a common plastic that takes 500 years to degrade. Current methods to remove LDPE are unsafe or ineffective, and less than 5.7% is recycled. The…
Environmental Engineering
In Uganda, and around the world, the water crises have negatively affected society by introducing disease outbursts, diminishing the economic potential of women, etc. Plant matter has high m…
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is a significant environmental issue caused by excess nutrients, primarily phosphorus, that lead to algae growth, fish kills and ocean dead zones. The objective of this projec…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The purpose of the experiment was to expand upon the ultimate goal of creating a Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) -based biosensor through a Proof of Principle. The MFC was tested with an opening a…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives Currently, people see the practical use of drones in testing water with the scientists manning drones to collect water in dangerous situations such as that in Pit Lake. In Pit Lak…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of fruit peels as a novel & natural bio-adsorbent to remove nitrates from water. Methods The experiment(s) involved using fruit p…
Environmental Engineering
This study proposes a new method to remove fine dust, which is increasing rapidly these days, without filtering. Currently, much-used filters can be torn, and they have to be replaced period…
Environmental Engineering
The global plastic production increases every year. In 2015, the worldwide plastic production was 322 million metric tons, an amount that will eventually be converted to waste. Due to lack o…
Environmental Engineering
UAE is not a water rich country, and we rely much on sea water desalination. This technology is expensive. Our project aims to investigate and provide a possible approach and technologies fo…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Our objective was to create a mechanism that could remove plastic from water. Our goal was to pick up 5 pieces of plastic from water in under a minute. Methods We custom fabricate…
Environmental Engineering
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a coliform bacteria that indicates the presence of fecal matter. In Oak Creek Watershed in Sedona Arizona, E. coli exceeds the water quality standards set by th…
Environmental Engineering
With 78% of US coastal waters polluted with algal blooms, agricultural and industrial nutrient run-off, including high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen, is severely impacting aquatic ecosys…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives The discharge of dyes from various anthropogenic and technogenic sources into the aquatic system poses a threat to the health of biota. Many dyes and their breakdown products are…
Environmental Engineering
Lead pollution is a serious environmental issue as elevated levels contribute to negative neurological effects within animals, as well as slowed growth and reproduction rates. Finding method…
Environmental Engineering
More than 1.5 billion people are infected with parasitic diseases transmitted through contaminated soil that could be prevented by simply wearing proper footwear. Nearly 1/2 of the world’s p…