In March of every year, our fourth year graduating engineering students complete a “capstone” group design project. This is meant to be a significant design experience where students can pull together concepts from across their program, and it’s a requirement for engineering program accreditation. Some of these projects are inspired by faculty research, others by the students’ own ideas, and still others by collaborations with industry partners.

For anyone interested in finding out more about the types of things that certain engineering programs cover, it’s useful to have a look at these projects. For 2024, the Chemical Engineering project descriptions are available here. There are 28 projects, covering quite a wide range of topic areas. Here are just a few mentions of ones that caught my attention.