Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Senior Design Program

CBE Senior Design Program

Join us at the Lory Student Center on April 24!

Engineering Days (E-Days) is a long-standing CSU tradition that allows senior undergraduate students the opportunity to showcase their senior design projects and senior practicum research. E-Days visitors include faculty, family, industry representatives, peers, and prospective students interested in exploring engineering.

This year's Senior Design Program

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2023 CBE Students
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Student Teams

2023 Project List

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E-Days 2023: CBE's Minnie Piffarerio on the importance of senior design projects
E-Days 2023: Bert Vermeulen on technology entrepreneurship
Individual, Industry, and CSU Contributors

Thank you to our individual and industry supporters for their monetary and/or talent contributions to our class this year.

  • Anheuser Busch
  • Agilent Technologies
  • Ardent Mills
  • Arkema
  • Aspen Mechanical Integrity
  • Tom Atkins
  • Bill Ellis
  • Bert Vermeulen and supporters
  • Caterpillar
  • Construction Education Foundation
  • CHS Inc.
  • Melissa Davis
  • Ayari de la Rosa
  • Jerry Giroux
  • Johns Manville
  • Bill Leet
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lexmark International
  • Open Solutions, LLC.
  • Picarro
  • Roeslein
  • RMH Group
  • Gabriel Saloma
  • Shimmick
  • Texas Instruments
  • Tolmar
  • VanGrow
  • Viasat
  • Janet Walker

Campus Department and Unit Support

We thank those departments and units across campus that shared their time, talent, and resources with our CBE senior class this year.

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Career Services
  • Student Conflict Resolution
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Engineering Office of Communications
  • Engineering Office of Development
  • Engineering Flint Animal Cancer Center
  • HABIC
  • Journalism and Media Communications
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ramskeller
  • TILT

CBE Faculty and Staff

Thank you to our Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty and staff for your support this year. Your support has been tremendous and extremely valuable. Special thanks to Dave Seidl and Craig Anderson for their support in class with our senior projects.

Projects

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Engineering A Porous Protein Crystal Scaffold For SARS-CoV-2 Detection And Monitoring in Waste Water

Project ID: 14

Students:

Brian Kelly, Tim Ahr, and Riley Stephen
Our research involves a biochemical system designed to improve detection and monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. Methods include functionalizing a modular protein crystal scaffold optimized for covalent binding domains.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Christopher Snow and Alec Jones
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Anheuser-Busch Ethanol Desulfurization

Project ID: 2

Students:

Peyton Belli, Bryan Dumesnil, Kaden King, Ryan Foslien, Georgia Perkins, and Nick Chastain
The goal of the team is to separate sulfur from waste ethanol at Anhueser-Busch to maximize probability and sustainability.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Anheuser-Busch
Advisors:
Joshua Chan and Eli Baier
Team photo

Anheuser-Busch Solids Removal

Project ID: 12

Students:

Taryn Farhar, Jessica Slane, Taylor Zagrocki, Sydney Graul, and JackO’Donnell-Sloan
Increase the beer recovery from solids removed from unitanks by introducing a new secondary centrifugation process and a turbidity sensor.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Anheuser-Busch
Advisors:
Christie Peebles, Nathan Murphy, and Sam Martin
Team photo

CIP Ramskeller Brewery

Project ID: 1

Students:

Ethan Ahuna, James Buxton, Kyle Curtis, Mark Heim, Kaylee McCarthy-Zayach, and Mackenzie Lucas
Development of a Clean in place and Sanitization in place system that limits the amount of operator interactions with hazardous chemicals. This system will implement automated in-line dosing of per acetic acid to sanitize fermentation vessels. Caustic chemicals used for hot sick operations will also be automated to be pumped into a CIP skid and mixed.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
CSU Ramskeller Brewery
Advisors:
Jeff Biegert, Jeffery Callaway, Charlie Hoxmeier, Bill Ellis, Monica Plowman, and Minnie Piffarerio
Team photo

Open Insulin

Project ID: 6

Students:

Maja Karp, Amanda Schmidt, Jack Manifold,Kalyn Kosmiski, MackennaMoody, and Theo Ramels
Insulin costs too much for the majority of users. The open insulin project is developing a direct-to-consumer model where the components of injectable insulin will be delivered periodically to a customers house Using a device developed by our team, the user will be able to use these to safely produce their own insulin at a lower cost.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Bert Vermeulen
Advisors:
Christie Peebles, Bert Vermeulen, and Mike Martinez
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Optimization of Enzymatic PET Recycling

Project ID: 7

Students:

Dylan Case, Eric Lundeen, Jonnie Salmon, and Mary Skillicorn
The team is addressing plastic waste by studying how to make plastic recycling with enzymes economically feasible. The ICCG enzyme degrades PET plastic (commonly in plastic bottles) into two monomers needed to rebuild a plastic bottle. By conducting bench-scale tests the team analyzed the productivity of the enzyme to produce these monomers at an industrial scale.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Bert Vermeulen
Advisors:
Margarita Herrera-Alonso, Jacob DeRoo, and Bert Vermeulen
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Polyoxymethylene Ethers (POME) As A Diesel Fuel Additive

Project ID: 9

Students:

Quinn Neuendorf, Taylor Johnson, Aaron Jellison, Kelley Traller, and Ian Wettlaufer
This project outliers the production of polyoxymethylene ethers (POME) to be used as a diesel fuel additive to reduce soot produced during fuel combustion. The main focus involves designing an effective, efficient, and economically feasible method to produce this compound with the intent to determine if mass production is viable.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Ken Reardon
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Scaled Manufacture of a Novel Hydrogel Composite Elastomer

Project ID: 11

Students:

Adam Sherrer, Landon MacArthur, and Michael Barker
Upscaling a lab based hydrogel production to an industrial size manufacturing process that is economically viable. Designing and optimizing reactor configuration to minimize cost and maximize output.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Travis Bailey
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SensiSwab (Non-Intrusive Testing For Food Allergies)

Project ID: 5

Students:

Asia Amii, Diana Antillon, Emily Carver,Rachel Conrad, Ariel Derting, and Baylee Torri
The SensiSwab team has come together for a senior design project with the goal to produce a non-invasive allergy test. We hope to create a lateral flow assay type test, similar to a covid test or pregnancy test. The device will detect allergies to peanuts and hopefully other major food allergies in the future. We are collaborating with the college of Engineering. Venture funded senior design, and Dr. Henry's research lab here at Colorado State University.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Bert Vermeulen
Advisors:
David Dandy and Bert Vermeulen
Team photo

Small Scale Desalination

Project ID: 15

Students:

Elliot Ferrell-Carretey, Andy Hess, Madelynn Knab, Jacob Schott
The objective of this project is to design a small-scale desalination process that is safe, cost efficient, and sustainable. The target location for implementing this design is costal Baja Mexico.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Dr. Margarita Herrera-Alonso, Ayari de la Rosa, Gabriel Saloma Velázquez
Team photo

Sublingual Epinephrine Nanoparticles

Project ID: 4

Students:

Brett Wilson, Carmen Bowen, Allison Walker, and Anissa Parra
In this project, a sublingual epinephrine encapsulated nanoparticle strip is investigated as a less-invasive alternative to the auto-injector. By utilizing poly-lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) nanoparticles to encapsulate the drug, the product is expected to have a longer shelf life while still providing comparable results to intramuscular injection in terms of potency and response time.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Brad Reisfeld
Team photo

The Upscaling Process of the Metakaryote Cell Line

Project ID: 3

Students:

Emma Barrett, Isabel Brandtjen, Bailey Latka, and Jacob Miller
We are designing a process to isolate metakaryotic cancer stem cells to create a pure cell line that can be used to further cancer research.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Brad Reisfeld, Elena Gostjeva, William Thilly, and Doug Thamm
Team photo

Tolmar-Vitamin B-12 Encapsulation

Project ID: 13

Students:

Austin Murphy, Drew Breuninger, Derek Herrera, Frankie Caballero, and Rebecca Tamayo
Vitamin B-12 deficiency is a condition that affects a large part of the population. The aim of this project, in conjunction with Tolmar© Pharmaceuticals, is to develop an extended-release polymer formulation for cyanocobalamin (synthetic B-12). The goal for the project is a product that reduces injections for patients while keeping them within the therapeutic window.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Advisors:
Margarita Herrera-Alonso and Matt Kipper