This summer with the help of donors and industry supporters, the department was able to create 25 paid summer internship positions working on research projects with EME faculty members. Interns were chosen through an application process and matched with active research projects in the department. The final component of those EME Summer Research Internships is a poster and accompanying five-minute lightning talk by each student, which are posted below. Following you will find the accumulated effort of a dedicated cadre of students who worked remotely on projects ranging from the occupational safety impact of the transition to renewable energy to supply and demand projections for critical minerals to the impact of COVID-19 on well shut-in decisions in the Bakken Shale. We are very proud of their efforts.
Intern: Scott Beckman
Project: The Effectiveness of the New York REV Program
Intern: Vincent Bucciarelli
Project: Analysis of Injectivity and Storage Capacity in Pennsylvania’s Oriskany Formation
Intern: Christopher Carle
Project: The Impact of COVID-19 on Well Shut-in Decisions in the Bakken Shale and their Consequences
Intern: Cindy Choi
Project: Turbulence Impacts upon Carbonaceous Particulate Size from a Jet Combustor
Intern: Rohan Datta
Project: Database Development for Plastic Waste Pyrolysis
Intern: Gabriel Hiestand
Project: Analyzing the Impact of Light Intensity on Ammonium Removal from Wastewater Treatment Plants
Intern: Kory Kearns
Project: Production Data Analysis of Multi-fractured Horizontal Wells in Shale Oil Reservoirs
Intern: Mychal Kearns
Project: Economic Analysis of Various Gas Compositions - CCS & EGR within Depleted Shale Gas Reservoirs
Intern: Yu-Chieh Lin
Project: Synthesis of CO2 absorbent using HEPZ with APTES or PEI and reshaped by Fumed Silica
Intern: Brett Miller
Project: Natural Gas Compressor Station Air Pollutant Emissions Impact Analysis
Intern: Duc Nguyen
Project: Stochastic model and techno-economic analysis of integrating large-scale wind power generation with underground hydrogen storage
Intern: Nayana Pandey
Project: Landfills as Methane Emission Offsets for Penn State
Intern: Sidney Przybylski
Project: Methane Pyrolysis Simulation: An Analysis of Products Produced Through Thermal Decomposition
Intern: Nkemjika Rajis
Poster and Video Pending
Intern: Praneel Rajkumar
Project: Life Cycle Safety Assessment in the Energy Industry
Intern: Patrick Rother
Project: Target and Trade Systems for Mass Vaccination
Intern: Tsunami Sharmba
Project: Assessing the Potential of Abandoned and Orphaned Wells to Serve as CO2 Injectors in Pennsylvania
Intern: Nicholas Shultz
Project: An Examination of the U.S. Supply Chain for Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals
Intern: Christian Stoudt
Project: Energy Analysis in Wastewater Treatment
Intern: Caden Vitti
Project: The Reprocessing and Revalorization of Critical Minerals in Mine Tailings
Intern: Zhihan Wang
Project: Shut-in Strategies Adopted By Companies Within The Pennsylvania Gas Industry In Response To the COVID Crisis
Intern: Taimur Zain
Project: Identifying the Links Between Climate Change and Automation