Three members of the CHEES Research Team, Emily Mellen, Finnegan McGoldrick, and Elliot Bolden, presented their research findings at the chemical engineering undergraduate research poster presentation event on December 4th, 2024.
Their poster focused on three main segments of our research to develop a circular economy for single-use plastic waste on UT campus: 3D printing, injection molding, and tensile testing.
From left to right: Emily Mellen, Finnegan McGoldrick, and Elliot Bolden
The CHEES Research team under Dr. Landaverde-Alvarado was invited to table at the World of Engineering on November 2nd, an event dedicated to showcasing various topics of STEM to K-12 students.
Our demonstration included a sustainable design mini extruder and a polarizing microscope. Attendees were encouraged to start at the mini extruder section to learn more about the lab’s hands on process and were able to assist in turning the extruder’s handle to melt the pellets into a longhorn mold. After, they would head towards the polarizing microscope side to hear more about the analysis process where attendees were encouraged to adjust the microscope’s fine tuner knob to focus on a lab made sample.
From left to right: Antoine Chamoun-Farah, Amanda Nguyen, Emily Mellen, Elliot Bolden, Zane Johnson, and William Cho
Our research on sustainability education was presented at the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Portland, OR. The presentation titled “Work-in-Progress: Creating Recycled Products to Incorporate Sustainability Projects in the Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratories” was presented during the session “WIP: Classroom Innovations”. This work was also authored by Emily Mellen and Amanda Nguyen. The full conference paper is available here.
During this conference, Dr. Landaverde also presented some of our our work on safety education. The paper titled “Project-Based Learning and Industry Collaborations to Integrate Process Safety in an Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratory” was presented during the session “Laboratory and Research Skill Development”. The full conference paper is available here.
