The students undertake challenging environmental problems of national importance facing our United States Departments of Defense and Energy. Looking for fresh approaches to threatening environmental concerns, these agencies pass the problems on to the competing teams. To compete, the students prepare an extensive report presenting their solutions. They research the problems then set up experiments to test alternative solutions. At the contest, each team demonstrates its bench-scale model to solve the given problem.
Students also prepare a demonstrative visual display and an oral presentation.
1997 Competition 1997 Montana Tech Environmental Design team. For this task, the team identified and demonstrated the best treatment and innovative technology to remediate radio-nuclide contaminated groundwater. Technology had to be applicable to the treatment of strontium and cesium in the presence of other chemicals while minimizing the generation of secondary waste. HEPA Filter Remediation and Disposal . The process also had to meet the Department of Transportation shipping requirements and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant waste-acceptance criteria.