Megan Geraghty - Environmental and Ecological Engineering Student
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2020-04-23

Megan Geraghty, a senior in Environmental and Ecological Engineering is a member of the West Lafayette Go Greener Commission and the lead commissioner for the food waste energy program, and helped expand Purdue's Food Waste to Energy project on campus to include Greek houses.  The goal of this project is to use food waste to power the local wastewater treatment plant instead of sending that waste to the landfill

In 2019-20, she was one of 5 students to be named a Purdue Engineering Fellow, receiving a $10,000 fellowship.  As a junior, she received that Bruce Helfert Memorial Award for demonstrating academic excellence (3.5+ GPA), dedication to sharing knowledge, and social concern.

Megan is a teaching assistant for a EEE course titled Engineering Environmental Sustainability and has participated in several service-learning courses. She has also conducted research relating to impoverished communities in West Lafayette, designed a green stormwater management plan for a Lafayette community partner, and collaborated in designing a drinking water treatment system for a school in Kenya. She was on the board of the Society of Women Engineers @pswesays and is a current member of Alpha Chi Omega Women’s Fraternity. After graduation, Megan will start a career in environmental consulting working for Burns and McDonnell in Chicago.

Learn more about Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue: 
http://engineering.purdue.edu/EEE

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