Senior Design
The capstone senior design course challenges students with a wide variety of chemical engineering processes, ranging from biotechnology to energy to nanoscience to entrepreneurial product design. Students in both courses complement their technical skills with teaming, leadership, project management, and communication skills. Both the instructors and the students feel an enormous sense of pride as we view the accomplishments of almost seven months’ work. We are thankful for those individuals and companies who have sponsored and advised projects this semester. The task of supporting these projects and coaching these teams could not have been accomplished without their help!
2026 Senior Design Day
May 1, 2026 | 9-11 a.m. | Engineering Building 1 Atrium
| Poster 1 – Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Biosolids Team Members – Drew Atkinson, Elizabeth Nguyen, Estephany Ruiz-Rodriguez, Connor Weist Mentor – Terry Goss View poster 1 Listen to poster 1 audio presentation |
| Poster 2 – Hydrogen Sulfide Removal Team Members – Bessie Alexander, Keegan Bader, Nick Goodwin, Ryan Meadows Mentors – Meghan Bruening, Claire Decroix, Martin Pospisil View poster 2 Listen to poster 2 audio presentation |
| Poster 3 – AstraZeneca pMDI Secondary Processing Team Members – Joseph Geller, Tyler Simpson, Sara Trimech, Brian Yoo Mentor – Jeremy Saunders View poster 3 Listen to poster 3 audio presentation |
| Poster 4 – Sickle Cell Disease Modular Therapuetic Plant Design and Channel Strategy for Africa Team Members – Riley Basinger, EJ Habschied, Jessica Pracht, Ryan Sedlacek Mentors – Meghan Howard, Mike Perkins View poster 4 Listen to poster 4 audio presentation |
| Poster 5 – Manufacture of Caffeinated and Decaffeinated Instant Coffee Crystals Team Members – Sara Granger, Noah Torreyson, Julian Perez Velasquez, Anastasiia Steksova Mentors – Matthew Cooper, Leah Granger View poster 5 Listen to poster 5 audio presentation |
| Poster 6 – Evaluation of Chiller Replacement Strategies for Plant HVAC Modernization Team Members – Lori Hoover, Abby Mathias, Anna Muchukot, Jana Thompson Mentor – Pamela Kalb View poster 6 Listen to poster 6 audio presentation |
| Poster 7 – Large Scale Manufacturing of S. boulardii Probiotic “Safe Yeast” Team Members – Ettie Geltser, Emerson Murray, Angela Ni, Avery Williams Mentors – Nathan Crook, Alexandra Imre View poster 7 Listen to poster 7 audio presentation |
| Poster 8 – Duke Energy: Combustion Residual Leachate to Zero Liquid Discharge Team Members – Emma Carpenter, Matthew Creswell, Riley Davidson, Gracie Massengale Mentor – Derek Henderson View poster 8 Listen to poster 8 audio presentation |
| Poster 9 –Duke Energy: Feasibility of Cache Energy Storage Team Members – Zach Dubisky, Jaden Leatherman, Kelly Robertson,Sebastian Sanchez Mentor – Ashley Coleman View poster 9 Listen to poster 9 audio presentation |
| Poster 10 – Eastman Chemical Company: PET production Facility Team Members – John Beyer, Tammy Cao, Landon Kearney, Samantha Moutsatsos Mentors – Alexander Moon, Lauren Turrentine, Alan Wessel View poster 10 Listen to poster 10 audio presentation |
| Poster 11 – Eastman Chemical Company: PET production Facility Team Members – Jake Dameron, Gabe McCants, George Murray, Noelle Sitaram Mentors – Varun Atree, Phoenix Tiller View poster 11 Listen to poster 11 audio presentation |
| Poster 12 – Eastman Chemical Company: PET production Facility Team Members – Lindsay Davis, Alia Armstrong, John Daniel, Joseph Miller Mentors – Lily Lin, Max Destino, Sara Vaught View poster 12 Listen to poster 12 audio presentation |
| Poster 13 – EMD Electronics: Batch and Continuous Distillation Design Evaluation for Two High Purity Semiconductor Precursor Chemicals Team Members – Sydnie Parks, Jasmine Prabawa, Jacob Simon, Zach Swartzwelder Mentor – Anthony Lachawiec View poster 13 Listen to poster 13 audio presentation |
| Poster 14 – Feasibility of Internalizing Drug Product Manufacturing at Encoded Therapeutics Team Members – Cedric Assiamah-ansong, Duke Dix, Norah Sutton, Nick Zezza Mentor – Maureen Haines View poster 14 Listen to poster 14 audio presentation |
| Poster 15 – Design and Simulation of Biomass Gasification Plant Team Members – Brady Alfonso, Gray Calaway, Rachel Racz, Grace Taylor Mentor – Hassan Golpour View poster 15 Listen to poster 15 audio presentation |
| Poster 16 – High Throughput Process Development For Downstream Process Platform Assessment Team Members – Yasaswini Bishi, Ethan Dennis, Hayden Perry, Landon Thomas Mentors – Amber Costakes, Bradley Homan, Matthew Taylor, Yong Yow View poster 16 Listen to poster 16 audio presentation |
| Poster 17 – Technical and Economic Analysis for an Intensified Biomanufacturing Cell Culture Process Team Members – Jack Callahan, Leah Hanson, Hailey John, Meaghan Rees Mentors – Jake Daehong Kim, Jacob Oros, Shaunak Uplekar View poster 17 Listen to poster 17 audio presentation |
| Poster 18 – Designing the Future of Computing: A Comparative Plant-Level Analysis of Quantum and DNA Technologies Team Members – Annabelle Clary, Danny Ireland, Clara Krafft, Cooper Schardt Mentor – Albert Keung View poster 18 Listen to poster 18 audio presentation |
| Poster 19 – Production of Virgin GAC and Reactivation of Spent GAC with PFAS Destruction Team Members – Kaia Andrews, Peyton Blosser, Katie Quesinberry, Annmarie Macheski Mentor – Bill Linak View poster 19 Listen to poster 19 audio presentation |
| Poster 20 – Design of a Vaccine Manufacturing Facility Team Members – Caroline Dailey, Vincent Pope, Ana Paula Valadez, Hannah Widdowson Mentors – Aadhira Arun, Katie Mooney, Lauren Palmer, David Walser View poster 20 Listen to poster 20 audio presentation |
| Poster 21 – Process and Facility Waste Optimization Challenge Team Members – Colton Beaven, Owen Hart, Ange Mendez, Amanda Vacca Mentors – Donald Grosse, Sarah Hall, Noah Parton, Cameron Stevens View poster 21 Listen to poster 21 audio presentation |
| Poster 22 – Multi-Effect Evaporator Design for High Salinity Wastewater Team Members – Allen Barron, Sophia Carson, Bradley dela Paz, Logan Newell Mentor – Phillip McCarter View poster 22 Listen to poster 22 audio presentation |
| Poster 23 – The Production of CO from CO2 via Chemical Looping Team Members – Maggie Berry, Adam Lopiano, Noah Love, Morgan Mecham Mentors – Fanxing Li, Luke Neal View poster 23 Listen to poster 23 audio presentation |
| Poster 24 – Multivariate and Soft Sensor Monitoring for Fed-Batch Fermentation at Novo Nordisk Team Members – Daniel Etheredge, Kyla Jarrell, Wesley Shelton, Henri Lessard Mentors – Saurav Jain, Tanish Dhagat View poster 24 Listen to poster 24 audio presentation |
| Poster 25 – Biomass Waste Gasification for P&G Sacramento Plant Team Members – Philip Klem, Jacob Mellander, Kaitlyn Rosenberg, Marissa Sterling Mentor – Eddie Sun View poster 25 Listen to poster 25 audio presentation |
| Poster 26 – Sweet Potato as an Alternative Feedstock for Precision Fermenation Team Members – Zack Elston, Riley Kocell, Everett Miller, Shirin Mohamed Mentor – Toni Bucci View poster 26 Listen to poster 26 audio presentation |
| Poster 27 – Design and Construction of a Perfusion Bioreactor Training Skid Team Members – Luke Oates, John Palmer, Andres Caceres Rodriguez, Christian Day Mentor – Ryan Harradine View poster 27 Listen to poster 27 audio presentation |
| Poster 28 – Replacing Synthetic Polymers with Biopolymer Feedstock from NC Seaweed Resources Team Members – Jacob Ferace, Lauren Rice, Anna Russell, Brooke Shephard Mentor – Orlin Velev View poster 28 Listen to poster 28 audio presentation |