CEE student video competition winners: engineering waste for 3-D printing in India, rap about a vision for the future of civil and environmental engineering, and pollutant sampling
CEE held its first video competition March 14, screening 10 videos illustrating science and engineering advances that hold clues to a sustainable future. After the audience voted, official judges Professor Christopher Kaiser of biology and CEE Professor John Williams weighed the data and added their own assessments. Course 1 senior Sid Pai won first prize for a video chronicling a company he co-founded, Protoprint, that teaches waste pickers in India how to convert trash into filament for 3-D printers. A team of graduate students — Leon Dimas, Dieter Brommer, and Tristan Giesa — took second place prize for a rap video highlighting advances in their fields. Graduate student Jennifer Apell won third place for “New Samplers for Old Problems,” a video showing how to measure pollutant levels in contaminated sediment with a plastic sampler. View the videos. Read a story.