Congratulations to Diogo de Oliveira Livera, Piaopiao Long, Aswathy Ann Thomas, and Gareth Toogood-Holmes, who won the Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award for Capstone Design and finished third place in the IDEAs Design Analysis Competition.
For their Capstone Design project, the winning team built and tested a portable and easy-to-use prototype that uses advanced solar photocatalysis to eliminate organic and microbial pollutants from drinking water. Their prototype, which demonstrated effective treatment against bacteria, dyes, and organic pollutants in contaminated water, will empower people in developing nations to obtain clean water.
Diogo de Oliveira Livera, Piaopiao Long, Aswathy Ann Thomas, and Gareth Toogood-Holmes designed a portable and easy-to-use device to eliminate organic and microbial pollutants from water.
The Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award for Capstone Design is funded by The Esch Foundation to support creative and entrepreneurial students in the pursuit of research and development and its commercialization. Six $10,000 prizes were awarded to outstanding student teams from among more than sixty entries.
The IDEAs Design Analysis Competition challenged final year engineering students from all engineering programs to encourage the effective application of appropriate engineering analyses in the execution of a design project.