Washington University Undergraduate Research Symposium

August 6, 2004

Session 1:  Applications and Impacts of Aerosols in Environmental Engineering

Speaker

Title

Time

Bill McClellan

Characterization of Welding Aerosols

8:25

Lisa Huesel

Calibration of a Multi-Stage Differential Mobility Analyzer

8:50

Erin Dunbar

Characterization of Titanium Dioxide

9:15

Seth Forster

Inactivation of Bacterial Aerosols Using an X-ray Enhanced Electrostatic Precipitator

9:40

 

Break

10:05

Session 2:  Environmentally Beneficial Reaction Engineering

Speaker

Title

Time

Hunter Bennett-Daggett

Determining Bubble Characteristics Using a Four-Point Optical Probe

10:25

Emily Martis

Developing an Acoustic Method to Determine Flow Regime in a Bubble Column Reactor

10:50

Zach Lukens

Corn to Ethanol

11:15

Igor Cashyn

Ethanol to Hydrogen

11:40

 

Lunch

12:05

Session 3:  Pollution Control and Waste Treatment

Speaker

Title

Time

Gabe Trejo

Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Views of Biomass from Anaerobic Digesters Treating Animal Waste

1:00

Katie Murtaugh

Anaerobic Bioremediation of PCE in Groundwater

1:25

Danny Pagan

Lead Adsorption to Goethite-Coated Sand

1:50

Jessica Mohatt

Binding Mechanisms of Mercury to Fly Ash

2:15

 

Break

2:40

Session 4:  Natural Environments

Speaker

Title

Time

Matt Kucharski

Using Satellite Imagery to Analyze Lake Water Quality

3:00

Claire Dreesen

 

3:25

David Heinzerling

Error Analysis of HYSPLIT Air Mass Trajectory Modeling

3:50

 

Adjourn

4:15