CSU researchers Jens Blotevogel and Anthony Rappé recently received a $474,000 U.S. Department of Defense grant to study and improve PFAS destruction by incineration, so the contaminants can be permanently removed from the environment without producing hazardous byproducts.
Using real-world data from utility companies and electric vehicle manufacturers, two systems engineering professors are developing models of energy use, cost, environmental impact, and adoption of electrified medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles.
The researchers propose a new agency, ARPA-C, that would place issues of culture and equity alongside science and technology.
"COVID has provided us with the perfect example of how we can't ignore animals or the environment,” said Dr. Angela Bosco-Lauth.
For ten weeks this summer, 17 undergraduate students learned about graduate school at CSU while working alongside Mechanical Engineering Principal Investigators on research problems that matter for society in sustainability, bioengineering, and energy.
CSU Energy Institute engineers are working on a toilet system, suitable for developing world needs, that pelletizes and dries human feces.
The team predicts 18 named storms in 2021, including the five named storms that have already formed.
CSU engineers and biologists will engineer algae strains and improve cultivation operations to boost algae’s potential as a source of biofuels and other products.
“When I was an undergraduate student, I was fortunate enough to work in a research group,” Ken Reardon says. “I loved it, and it had a lot to do with why I went to graduate school, but I never knew what the point of the whole project was.” Now, Reardon is overseeing a $5.1 million Department of Energy project that is giving selected undergraduates a holistic view of research, in real time.