This virtual event provides us all with the opportunity to share and celebrate the hard work and many ways in which the WPI community is contributing to envision a sustainable future.
WPI students have submitted sustainability-themed projects in one of three categories: first-year, undergraduate, and graduate. These sustainability-themed projects each address a present societal need without compromising our ability to meet the needs of future generations. Projects address environmental, social, and/or economic themes that relate to sustainability.
Judges for the competition include WPI staff and faculty as well as regional sustainability experts.
The projects in the three areas are as follows:
First Year Projects
- Land Use Analysis of Polar Park
- LiquoBot: An Autonomous Solution to Underwater Microplastics
- Model the Snowy Owl
- Pollinator Positive Panels
- Restoring Purpose: Adaptive Reuse
- Water Consumption and Invasive Species In Cape Town, South Africa
Undergraduate Projects
- A Pump-Based Method to Sample Midwater Microplastic Pollution
- A Stride Towards The Elimination of Consumer Waste: Development of a Reusable Cup Machine
- Active Telepresence Assistance for Supervisory Control: A User Study with a Multi-Camera Tele-Nursing Robot
- An Electro-Mechanical, Wind Energy System Design for the Historic Shelter Island Windmill
- An Environmental Analysis of Recreational Cannabis
- Analyzing Pressure Drop in Flow-Through Pretreatment of Biomass
- Assessing the Impact of Human Activity on the Groundwater at the Mrigadayavan Palace in Cha Am, Thailand
- Batch Reactor Pretreatment of Brewer’s Spent Grain Enables Bioenergy Production From Continuous Anaerobic Digestion
- Climate Stories as a Means of Increasing Public Participation in Climate Change Adaptation in Albania
- Creating a Pest Resilient Garden at Turn Back Time to Support Nature- Based Education Programs
- Creating a Plastic-Free World in the Beauty Industry
- Designing an Activated Carbon Adsorption Column to Mitigate Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
- Developing a Sustainability Plan for Hammams in Morocco
- Dwenase Bridge Development
- Envisioning a World with Less Plastic: Determining the Feasibility of a Reusable Takeout Container System in Hilo, HI
- Hydrolytic Pretreatment of Macauba Shells for Anaerobic Digestion
- Lignocellulosic Hydrolysate Detoxification
- Onsite Plastic Recycling for Rural Places
- Reuse Plastic for 3D Printing
- Robotic Waste Sorting
- Silicon Epitaxy by Molten Salt Electrolysis
- Supporting Tower Hill’s Capabilities to Assess Environmental Impact
- Teaching and Learning Materials Development
- The Development and Study of Organic Composites
- Valorization of Poultry Feather Protein Residues Using Subcritical Water Hydrolysis
- Waste Optimization of the Amager Resource Center
Graduate Projects
- Depression Screening with Text Messages
- From Waste Steel to Matériel: Additive Manufacturing Enabled Agile Manufacturing
- Fundamental Understanding of Removal of Water Trapped Inside a Single Cellulose Fiber
- HyperBERT: a light-weight pretrained language model using hypercomplex space
- Realizing a World without Waste through Catalytic Conversion of Food Waste
- Stand Against COVID: building affordable ventilators + deploying robotic medical tele-ultrasonography for better healthcare
- Tiketi Rafiki (Friendly Ticket)
For more WPI Sustainability Projects, see the 13th Annual Sustainability Project Competition!