Check out Pitt’s Summer 2020 sustainability research projects, advisors, and student participants, funded by the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation below.
1. Silk-based Lithography: a sustainable alternative towards green micro-/nano-manufacturing?
Advisors: Mostafa Bedewy, Industrial Engineering & Leanne Gilbertson, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Student: Todd Ackerman, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
2. Biodiversity Collapse at the Urban-Rural Interface: Consequences for the sustainability and economic viability of small, privately owned forests in Pennsylvania.
Advisor: Walter Carson, Biological Sciences
Student: Ali Carroll, Ecology & Evolution
3. Energy-efficient processors, sensors, and systems for space-based sensing and computing
- Advisor: Alan George, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Student: Francis Fattori, Computer Engineering
4. Electromagnetic Modeling of Power Systems Elements using COMSOL Multiphysics
- Advisor: Bob Kerestes, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Student: Evan Gzesh, Electrical & Computer Engineering
5. Using machine learning models to identify wildlife species in field recordings
- Advisor: Justin Kitzes, Biological Sciences
- Student: Tiger Wu, Industrial Engineering
6. Plastic Trade and Implications for Sustainability
- Advisor: Vikas Khanna, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Studenst: Elijah Smith, Industrial Engineering & Kevin Padgett, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
7. Simulations of First Solar Solar Cells
- Advisor: Paul Leu, Industrial Engineering
- Student: Maxwell Smith, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
8. Durable, anti-soiling, self-cleaning, antireflective solar glass
- Advisor: Paul Leu, Industrial Engineering
- Student: Sooraj Sharma, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
9. Electrochemistry for Sustainable Chemical Production
- Advisor: James McKone, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Student: Jeff Hoffman, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
10. Intelligent Management for Energy Efficiency in Computer Systems
- Advisors: Daniel Mosse, Computer Science & Vinicius Petrucci, Computer Science
- Student: Caleb Tucker-Loewe, Computer Science
11. Chemical Catch: Detecting emerging contaminants of concern in complex environments
- Advisor: David Sanchez, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Claire Chouinard, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
12. Sustainable Oxidation: Generating chemical-free ways to remove emerging contaminants of concern
- Advisor: David Sanchez, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Student: Ethan Arnold-Paine, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
13. Harnessing ambient energy for manipulation using additively manufactured structures
- Advisor: Ravi Shankar, Industrial Engineering
- Student: Julia Kocherzat, Chemistry
14. A novel process for purely thermal desalination
- Advisor: Sachin Velankar, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Student: Brett Mallon, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
15. Going with a Bang: Cavitation reactors for chemicals production
- Advisor: Götz Veser, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Student: Tyler Weinstein, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
16. (Re-)Engineering during covid19: On-site, on-demand production of hand sanitizer
- Advisor: Götz Veser, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Student: Pablo Salazar, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
17. Hardware acceleration of artificial neural network for neuromorphic computing
- Advisor: Feng Xiong, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Student: Sridhar Reddy Velagala, Electrical & Computer Engineering
18. Design of high strength alloys for energy efficiency
- Advisor: Wei Xiong, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Student: Eric Rhodes, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
