Sustainability Poster Competition 2010

Sustainability Poster Competition: Envisioning Sustainable Futures 2

As part of WPI's 2010 EarthFest activities, the WPI task Force and the Environmental Studies Program sponsored its second annual sustainability-themed poster contest.  The competition took place on April 21 in Gordon Library and was divided into two categories:

• Technological responses to a problem associated with sustainability
• Interdisciplinary projects that focus on socio-technical dimensions of social or environmental sustainability

Panel of Judges

MaryBeth Campbell, Development Program Director at the Mass Clean Energy Center

Barbara Haller, Worcester City Councilor and alumnus

Fred DiMauro, Assistant VP Facilities, WPI

Creighton Peet, Program Coordinator & Adjust Assistant Prof, WPI

Kent Rissmiller, Assoc. Dean. Interdisciplinary & Global Studies & Professor, WPI

Tom Robertson, Assistant Professor of History, WPI

Rob Krueger. Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary & Global Studies, WPI

Marie Planchard, Director, Worldwide Education Marketing, DS Solidworks

Kate Toomey, Worcester City Councilor

Ingrid Shockey, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies, WPI

David Gibbs, Professor of Human Geography, Hull University, England

Fred Hart, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, WPI

And the Winners Are.....

• Interdisciplinary Category: tie between the following two entries:

  • Feasibility of Photovoltaic Panels for WPI Campus; IQP; Muhammad Farzan Tariq, Chao Lian, Jason Beliveau, and Yura Pyatnychko
  • Development of a Sustainable Landscape Architecture Best Practices Manual; MQP; Peter Cacciatore, James Hogan, Angel Munoz, and Rebecca Mattern.
• Technological Category:

  • Ethanol from Sugar Beets:  A Process and Economic Analysis; MQP; Emily Bowen, Sean Kennedy, Kelsey Miranda.