Final Project

Overview

The final project gives you an opportunity to use and extend the methods we have learned in class to an environmental system of your choosing. More details will be provided over the semester. We will discuss each component in class as well as providing relevant information on this page.

Schedule

Milestones which are only for BEE 5750 or 4750 students are in italics.

Milestone Points Instructions Due Date
Proposal 10 Oct 31, 2024
Presentation 20 Dec 09, 2024
Peer Review 10 Dec 13, 2024
Report 40 Dec 20, 2024
Team and Self Evaluations 20 Dec 20, 2024

Scope and Topics

The project can be on any environmental system of interest, so long as the approaches from class are being extended in some way. This can involve applying new methods (e.g. multi-objective optimzation, more advanced uncertainty analysis, lifecycle analysis) to systems studied from class, or applying class or new methods to other systems.

Some project topics from previous semesters include:

  • Battery lifecycle analysis for residential storage;
  • Hydropower production from Ithaca-area streams;
  • Traffic regulation to comply with air-quality standards;
  • Wastewater treatment design;
  • Geothermal energy lifecycle analysis;
  • Multi-objective optimization for water management;
  • Energy storage on Cornell’s campus;
  • Flight schedule optimization;
  • Milk alternatives lifecycle analysis;
  • Hydrogen fuel cell lifecycle analysis.