Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Senior Design Program

CBE Senior Design Program

Join us at the Lory Student Center on April 19!

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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2024 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.

  • Craig Anderson
  • Mike Atkins
  • Anheuser Busch
  • Bert Vermeulen and Supporters
  • Emily Carver
  • Caterpillar
  • City of Fort Collins Utilities
  • Central Intelligence Center
  • Construction Education Foundation
  • Mike DeHererra
  • Delbert Grotewold
  • Trevor Hobson
  • Kari Johnson
  • Brad Kimble
  • Marinela Kirk
  • Lexmark International
  • Monica Marquez
  • Monica Plowman
  • Roeslein
  • Adrien Schilssler
  • Bridget Schoonover
  • Shimmick
  • Chris Taylor
  • Texas Instruments
  • Tolmar
  • Van Grow
  • Janet Walker
  • Jeff Zadrozny

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.

  • Agricultural Science
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Career Services
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Engineering Office of Communications
  • Engineering Office of Development
  • Engineering Student Success Center
  • Facilities Management
  • Journalism and Media Communications
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ramskeller
  • Student Conflict Resolution

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 for their support in class with our senior projects.

Projects

Team photo

Ramskeller/Anheuser-Busch Kettle Boil Optimization Project

Project ID: 2

Students:

Becca Balliew, Edna Barcenas Ramirez, Carley Boulger, Michael Burns, Caroline Loewecke, Ethan Lucero, and Chris Rossi
The objective of this project is to optimize the operations system around the kettle boil process step on the brewery lines at both the Gifford Lab and the Ramskeller Brewery.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
CSU Ramskeller and Anheuser-Busch
Advisors:
Jeff Callaway, Jeff Beigert, Charlie Hoxmeir, Craig Anderson, Bill Ellis
Team photo

Anheuser-Busch Product Recycle

Project ID: 1

Students:

Alex Cerullo, Chris Evans, Denzel Hampton, Brian McCarthy, Mark Metheny, and Amanda Mohrlang
To develop a pre-distillation process at Anheuser-Busch to make the repurposing of their waste ethanol more efficient and cost effective. The pre-distillation process may be a singular process or a combination of process.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Anheuser-Busch
Advisors:
Tim Seitz (Anheuser-Busch), Eli Baier (Anheuser-Busch), Dave Seidl (CSU)
Team photo

Caterpillar Methanol Engine Reactor System

Project ID: 3

Students:

Sarah Bermingham, Parker Dunham, Alayna Gilbert, and, Mark Scheller
The purpose of this project is to develop a pilot fuel reactor system for a methanol engine reactor.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sponsors:
Caterpillar
Advisors:
Dave Montgomery, Bret Windom, German Parada
Team photo

ChemE Cube Challenge

Project ID: 4

Students:

Anna Confer, Chase Kitzman, Ashley Manera, Matthew Ohnstad, Ben Sosa, Jake Tjalkens, Abbie Tangen, and Angel Valenzuela-Delgado
The objective of this project is to create a direct carbon capture device that is 1 foot cubed in dimension.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
CSU Engineering Captial Ventures
Advisors:
Bert Vermuelen, Delbert Grotewold (Veolia), Mike Martinez (Maxar)
Team photo

CSU Anaerobic Digester

Project ID: 5

Students:

Cody Burdette, Nick Chang, Mauricio Galindo Vega, Austin Jones, Isabelle Lemma, Saori Nishimura Garcia, and Ryan Norman
The Anaerobic Digester project consists of feasibility analysis that involves researching the possibility of implementing a zero waste digester on the CSU campus. The digester would be considered an innovation if the use of ethanol amine proves successful to filter out the hydrogen sulfide that is created as a byproduct from the methane production.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
City of Fort Collins Utilities
Advisors:
Dr. Joshua Chan, Dr. Chris Snow, Dr. Susan DeLong, Jeff Zadrozny (Roeslein)
Team photo

Hairy Roots Cell Production

Project ID: 6

Students:

Grace Blaskowski, Zack Cohn, Zoe Fiedler, Keigan Garrity, Madison Hill, and Nathaniel Welch
Our goal of the project is to upscale the production of terpineol include alkaloids from catharanthus roseus.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Dr. Christie Peebles
Advisors:
Dr. Christie Peebles
Team photo

Open Insulin

Project ID: 7

Students:

Maryam Al Mashrafi, Dalal Alrefae, Jason Jackson, Erin Johnson, Sherly Manoharan, Hunter Pickerel, and Samual Wardono
Creation of shelf-stable crystalized insulin for use in emergency situations with lack of refrigeration options.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
CSU Engineering Captial Ventures
Advisors:
Bert Vermeulen, Brian Munsky, Natalie Lusk, Simon Prakash
Team photo

Sublingual Epinephrine

Project ID: 9

Students:

Kyra Mazanec, Lourlie Jannah Baniqued, and Abdulaziz Alali
Our team is trying to provide proof of concept for an epinephrine delivery system, alternative to an injector. Last semester we were working on proposing a synthesis for the encapsulation of epinephrine and this semester we are working on the design and modeling of a sublingual administration device.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sponsors:
Tolmar
Advisors:
Brad Reisfeld
Team photo

Texas Instruments CMP

Project ID: 10

Students:

Shelby Ardehali, Ava Cecil, Mary Corkery, Skylar Farrell, Nick Kaemmerlen, Frank Luna
To improve aspects within the CMP step at Texas Instruments.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
Texas Instruments
Advisors:
Mike Fredrickson, Stephen Ross, Mackenzie Lucas, Dr. German Parada
Team photo

Tolmar Polymer Kinetics

Project ID: 11

Students:

Audrey Banks, Ronald Bells, Zabiba Husein, Joy Ngyuen, and Ethan Rimelman
Lactide-glycollide copolymer synthesis is a process of interest for healthcare application. The team aim is to better understand this process through polymerization experiments and modeling. Results can be used by Tolmar pharmaceutics to more efficiently, less energy, less resource, less time to manufacture the product.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sponsors:
Tolmar
Advisors:
Dr. John Middleton, Dr. Matt Kipper, Colin Hill, Dr. Justin Gangaush,
Team photo

VanGrow Nitrogen Fixing Soil Probiotic

Project ID: 8

Students:

Nicole Blais, Sam Cummings, Kaylie Gordon, Issac Lewis, Anika O'Brian, and Hector Ontiveros
The goal of our project is to research the microbes living in soil to characterize their nitrogen fixing potential. We hope to find a microbe that fixes nitrogen that can be grown industrially and sold to farmers as a nitrogen source. This will supplement chemically synthesized nitrogen as a sustainable alternative.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Video presentation:
Link to project video
Sponsors:
VanGrow BioTechnology
Advisors:
Rob Tengler (Van Grow) and Dr. Christie Peebles
Team photo

Waste Water Virus Capture

Project ID: 12

Students:

Katie McCraw, Nate Lambert, Parker Doyle, Lauren French, and Shawn Crook-Cocagne
We are creating a filtration system to filter waste water through a pumpard activated carbon filter, and collect a sample bottle containing viruses from the waste water. This will be sent to Dr. Susan's lab. where they are using protein crystals to capture viruses like covid-19 and run it through a PCR test.
Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sponsors:
Fort Collins Utility
Advisors:
Ayari De la Rosa-Perkins, Chris Snow, and Susan Delong