2012 DESIGN COMPETITION

SPONSORED BY: Black & Veatch, CDM Smith, HDR Engineers, Greeley and Hansen
Award Presenter:  WEF Past Officer Paul Freedman 
Design Competition Chair:  Lauren Zuravnski, Greeley and Hansen
Design Competition Vice Chair: Allison Reinert  |  WEF Staff: Dianne Crilley
 

WASTEWATER DIVISION WINNERS

 

1st Place: University of Colorado at Boulder  - ($2,500)
Advisor: Dr. Angela Bielefeldt
Team:  Kristin Johansen, Maria Cabeza, Matthew Huntze, Bailey Leppek, Alexandra Murray
Project Title: Broadmoor Park Properties Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements

  

2nd Place:  Ryerson University - ($1,500)
Advisor: Dr. Manuel Alvarez Cuenca
Team: Nicholas JOnes, Natasha Niznik, Daniel Baena
Project Title: Expansion of Port Dover WPCP

3rd Place: University of South Florida ($1,000)
Advisor: Sarina Ergas
Team: Robert Gaylord, Justin Terry, Matthew Munz, Esteban Zajia, Yasmin Eskandari
Project Title: Hillsborough County Northwest Biosolids Improvements




4th Place: Southern Methodist University ($750)
Advisor: Dr. Fritz Beck | SMU Design Team Sponsor: Julie Ellis
Team: Ingrid Castillo, Patricia Coogan, Amy Heldenbrand
Project Title: Weatherford WWTP Master Plan

ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION WINNERS 

1st Place: University of South Florida - ($2,500)
Advisor: Sarina Ergas
Team: Micah Blate, Danielle Bertini, Emily Patrick, Lyudmila Haralampieva, Gabriele Dionne
Project Title: Ragan Park by Green Solutions

 

2nd Place North Carolina State University - ($1,500)
Advisor: Dr. Detlef Knappe
Team: Andrew Spicer, Jared Hostetler, Katie Dorety, Matthew Woelfle, Ruth Small
Project Title: Stormwater Best Management Practices Retrofit, Durham Plaza, Durham NC



3rd Place University of North Dakota - ($1,000)
Advisor: Charles Moretti
Team: Matthew Erickson, John Erickson, Spencer Toliver, Derek Flaten, James Norberg
Project Title: Feasibility of Landfill Gas Recovery in the Grand Forks, ND Landfill

  

4th Place Virginia Military Institute - ($750)
Advisor: Timorthy Moore
Team: Patrick Sexton, Thomas Battiata, John Partin, Peter Kniesler, Peerawat Noon Charuwat
Project Title: Conceptual design for the treatment of wastewater generated at a medical center in town of Baptiste, Haiti 

RUNNER UPS:

North Dakota State University | Advisor: Dr. Wei Lin
Team: Alysa merson, Clifford Halvorson, Steven Jensen, Ruchi Joshi, Abdul Namrou, MIchael Quamme, Joseph Rezac, Ashley Roder, Jacob Strombeck, Leslee Storlie, Mitchell Swanson, Tanush Wadhawan, Kevin Young
Project Title: Achieving Low Level Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentrations in Moorhead WWTP




University of Utah | Advisor: Ramesh Goel
Team: Mitch Hogsett, Mike Moe, Pei Huang
Project Title: Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility (CVWRF) Phosphorus Removal and Struvite Mitigation Improvements




University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Advisor: J Bruce Litchfield
Team: Kevin Weyant, John Watson, Chinedu Onyejekwe, Alyssa Sohn
Project Title: Sustainable Water Development for Rural Nigeria