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Mostly cloudy. Low 27F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.
BUTTE, Mont. - They say that every day is a great day to be an Oredigger, but that was especially true on Thursday, as over 200 Montana Tech students showed off the best projects that the university has to offer at the annual "Techxpo."
For the last 11 years, Techxpo has demonstrated the incredible projects that Montana Tech students have created for the betterment of society. The last two Techxpos were held in virtual format due to COVID, but there's nothing that compares to seeing the ingenuity in person.
This year's projects range from a lighter, more efficient form of aluminum, to microtextured sanitary surfaces, to a fully functional flume meant to demonstrate the impact water flow has on dams and spillways.
"There's a lot of research going into the degrading of the concrete when the water is flowing that fast," said Brett Robinson, one of the Montana Tech students behind the flume project. "That's mainly our purpose here, to study how to slow down the water and stop the degradation of the concrete."
"We actually built this for the Civil Department to use in labs, so it will be used for years to come in lab purposes," Robinson continued.
These kinds of projects are all coming from the minds of college students, and it won't be long until these students are out sharing their inventiveness with the world.
"Tech graduates are in high demand," said Techxpo organizer Susie Anderson. "You're going to see the majority of these students go on to do something wonderful--engineering, health care, you name it. It's across the board."
While the love of research and finding ways to improve humankind is the driving force behind these projects, Techxpo is also a competition. All 90 projects were graded by a panel of guest judges and were eligible to receive cash prizes.
The winners in each category received $200, while a grand prize of $500 was awarded to the Best in Show. Here is the complete list of winners:
Characterization of Bacteriophage GiGiOuiOui's Genome
Shalee Tamcke, Madison Toll, William Augustine, Natasha Chadwell
Ligand Functionalized Chitin Biopolymers as Customizable Adsorbents
Archie Lind, George Shick, Brent Tezak, Brock MacDonald, Colton Eliason, Logan Kolodejchuk, Brandon Quinn, Justus Peterson
Booth Hemp Fiber Reinforced Composite Beams
Erik Casagranda, Jacob Fleury, Maxwell Triepke
Elias Luoma, Owen Indreland, Benjamin Burkhalter, Justin Rubalcaba, Seth Bettwieser
Copper Recovery from Copper Slag
Reid Smith, Ryan Moodry, Heidi Klepac
Abdullah Alkhazi, Husain Almesri, Meshal Almutairi, Mohammad Alshammari
Geophysical Survey of the Old Works Smelting Area, Anaconda, Montana to Evaluate Groundwater Flow
Poster High Temperature Processing to Remove Arsenic from Copper Slag
Booth Preparation and Characterization of Ceramic Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites
Master’s Projects: Electrical Engineering, General Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Metallurgical/Mineral Processing
Investigation of Notch Size in Topology Optimization for Fatigue Loading
Master’s Projects: Environmental Engineering, Ecological Restoration, or Petroleum Engineering
T bryosalmonae in the Big Hole and Madison Rivers: Detection via eDNA
Master’s Projects: Mining Engineering or Geosciences
Numerical Modeling Methods for Predicting the Damage Behavior and Propagation of Rock Fractures
Isotopic Analysis of the Flathead Valley
Garrison Shaw, William Irwin, Spencer Bartow, Grayson McLaren
Effect of Pressure on Metallic Glass Stability
Study of the Philipsburg Mining District, Granite County, Montana
Saad Alrashidi, Mustafa Alsulaiman, Chandler Newhall, Gabe Knudsen
T bryosalmonae in the Big Hole and Madison Rivers: Detection via eDNA
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