Please join us in welcoming the Summer 2019 undergraduate summer sustainability research projects, advisors, and student participants, funded by the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.
- Reducing Emissions – Fuel Consumption Reduction Technologies for Pittsburgh Port Authority Buses
- Advisor: Matthew Barry, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Kathryn Rossi, chemical & petroleum engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Silk-based flexible/wearable electronics: towards sustainable fabrication and materials engineering
- Advisor: Mostafa Bedewy, Industrial Engineering
- Student: Rim Biaz, Industrial Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Validating citizen science tools used to identify lead water lines
- Advisor: Mike Blackhurst, University Center for Urban and Social Research
- Student: Arianna Heilbrunn, Environmental Studies (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys for power generation applications
- Advisor: Markus Chmielus, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Tyler Paplham, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Chemical semantics and its implications on environmental transport, fate, and toxicity
- Advisors: Leanne Gilbertson and Carla Ng, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Rachel Fay, Civil & Environmental Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Small & Mighty: Exploring nature to identify bacteria capable of degrading a new generation of environmental contaminants
- Advisor: Sarah Haig, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Kareem Rabbat, Civil & Environmental Engineering (Charles and Linda Sorber Scholar)
- Structural Design with Bamboo
- Advisor: Kent Harries, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Stephanie Martinos, Architectural Studies (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Capturing and storing energy from hurricane waves with a piezoelectric device
- Advisor: Katherine Hornbostel, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Stephanie Litwack, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Capturing carbon dioxide from the ocean with a membrane device
- Advisor: Katherine Hornbostel, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Christopher Snodgrass, Bioengineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Reducing frictional energy losses in transportation and industry: Surface coatings and the effect of surface roughness on friction
- Advisor: Tevis Jacobs, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Annie Shi, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Using acoustic sensors and machine learning to locate birds and bats in the field
- Advisor: Justin Kitzes, Biological Sciences
- Student: Jiade Song, Industrial Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Durable Antireflective, Anti-Soiling and Self-Cleaning Solar Glass
- Advisor: Paul Leu, Industrial Engineering
- Student: Sooraj Sharma, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Designing new ways to test the performance of large-scale battery technologies
- Advisor: James McKone, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Students: Carissa Yim, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering (Frank and Daphna Lederman Scholar)
- Smarter Riversheds – Real-time sensor networks
- Advisor: David Sanchez, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Carlie Johnson, Civil & Environmental Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Recirculating Aquaculture – Managing water quality in a closed system
- Advisor: David Sanchez, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Mason Unger, Civil & Environmental Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Campus-Wide Sustainability Dashboard
- Advisor: Aurora Sharrard, University Office of Sustainability
- Collaborators: Melissa Bilec & Michael Blackhurst, plus interactions with Pitt Facilities Management
- Student: Jonathan Coles, Civil & Environmental Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Increasing the Structural Resilience of Reinforced Concrete through Bio-Remediation
- Advisor: Max Stephens, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Aamil Shah, Bioengineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- What the Frack: Designing nanocatalysts for responsible use of natural gas
- Advisor: Goetz Veser, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Student: Albert Lopez-Martinez, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Post-processing design on superalloys by additive manufacturing for NASA space technology missions.
- Advisor: Wei Xiong, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Yinxuan Li, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
- Graphene-based composite materials for high performance thermoelectric devices
- Advisor: Minhee Yun, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Student: Seth So, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Douglas Condon Scholar)
- Developing a novel photopolymer based additive manufacturing machine (3D Printer) for high-resolution applications
- Advisor: Xiayun Zhao, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Yue Zhang, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (John C. Mascaro Scholar)
