Congratulations to all CHBE students for completing their Capstone projects this year! You all should be extremely proud of the work that you produced.
The undergraduate programs culminate in a significant student design experience delivered through a Capstone Design course. Students carry out the design and economic assessment of a major, environmentally-sound process in chemical and/or biological engineering. Students work in teams under the supervision of a faculty advisor and, when possible, mentored by a practicing professional engineering from industry to ensure relevance and quality.
Annually, the department allocates capstone awards to distinguished projects. These are assigned by the CHBE Faculty, along with votes from members of the public, students and industry professionals. Here are the winners of the 2022 Capstone Awards.
The 6th International Gas Hydrate Award – Our Premier Chemical Engineering Capstone
This award is given to the teams of students in the Chemical Engineering program who produced an outstanding project, as assessed and evaluated by the design course faculty instructors.
Hemicellulose Extraction via Biomass Hydrolysis for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials (Pavle Pavlovik, Ronak Vimadalal, Cassidy Ho, Samuel Lee, Iram Malik and Aman Tithh)
Extraction of Betulin from Birch Bark (Bea Tañada, Raunak Bhutoria, Raghav Mathur, Isabella Heryani, Izzat Ahmad Redza, Grace Mwangi and Kenneth Setyadarma)
The Paul Watkinson Design Award – Our Premier Chemical and Biological Engineering Capstone Award
This award is given to the team of students in the Chemical & Biological Engineering program who produced an outstanding project, as assessed and evaluated by the design course faculty instructors.
Industrial Sodium Alginate Production Using Engineered Azotobacter vinelandii (Tianhuai Xu, Yicong Ma, Baihan Wang, Aoife Gannon, Zeki Alican Gurelli, Jeanie Li and Wencheng You)
The Colin Oloman People’s Choice Award
This prize is awarded to the project team with the most votes from fellow students and members of the public.
Hemicellulose Extraction via Biomass Hydrolysis for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials (Pavle Pavlovik, Ronak Vimadalal, Cassidy Ho, Samuel Lee, Iram Malik and Aman Tithh)
APSC Design and Innovation Industry Awards
This award is given to the top scoring projects in the Chemical Engineering and the Chemical & Biological Engineering programs, based on the review and evaluation of industry professionals.
Chemical Engineering:
Extraction of Betulin from Birch Bark (Bea Tañada, Raunak Bhutoria, Raghav Mathur, Isabella Heryani, Izzat Ahmad Redza, Grace Mwangi and Kenneth Setyadarma)
Metallurgical Extraction of Valuable Metals from Lithium-Ion Batteries (Hussein Kanaan, Nikolina Cosovic, Mohamed Abdelkhalek and Hussein Mohamed)
Chemical and Biological Engineering:
Pigment Protein Extraction from Arthrospira platensis (Spirulina) (Joel Della Siega, Wendie Wu, Kenechukwu Ene, Cynthia Feng, Tasnia Anika, Novia Chao and Tommy Ou)
Congratulations to all of our 2022 award recipients!