Yong Kai Saw (team captain), Mengli Shi, Menelle Dridi and Conrad Pritchard – The “Stormtroopers” – will be traveling to the National Meeting of the Water Environment Federation, to be held in New Orleans in September. There, the team’s design will go up against that of other top teams from across the nation.
“Our two semesters of hard work paid off as we were able to take an engineering problem and develop a design concept and solution, with cost approximation, maintenance, and construction scheduling,” says Yong Kai Saw. “Having won the regional competition, we will now present our project at the national level. We look forward to pitting our design work against those from other schools to learn how best to approach problems in the environmental engineering field!”
The students say their project replicated the engineering process to size and select stormwater best management practices (BMPs) to treat and limit stormwater runoff for a site within Fort Meade. The project was intended to help Fort Meade comply with state stormwater management regulations, specifically treating at least 20% of impervious surface area with BMPs to limit dirty water running off the property. The project is important because it holds the potential to cleanse or limit the flow of dirty water into tributaries that ultimately reach the Chesapeake Bay.
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Students develop wetlands plan to protect Turner Station community from rising sea level.
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Autonomous system IDs and treats internal bleeding to prevent pre-hospital deaths.
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Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson delivers remarks as part of the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering's monthly Grand Rounds series.