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COF Summer Bridge 2025

Group Study Project Topics

  • Group 1- Microplastics are not environmentally friendly and cause medical issues. How do microplastics affect people using waterparks?
  • Group 2- Chemical wastes and solutions in the chemical engineering field
  • Group 3- Effects of Flooding on the Environment
  • Group 4- Soil contamination from the rubber plants. When, what, and how did it happen? What can we do about it?
  • Group 5- Tribology. What is it, and how does it affect us? It makes processes inefficient. 
  • Group 6- Waste management, smart trash cans to help manage under- and overfilling
  • Group 7- Climate change
  • Group 8- The effects of construction/road construction on the environment

Note: List as of 7/3/2025

Databases and Other Resources

 Environmental Impact & Climate Change

Topics associated with this category: climate change, flooding, construction effects, soil contamination, microplastics 

Groups associated with this category:

  • Group 1- Microplastics are not environmentally friendly and cause medical issues. How do microplastics affect people using waterparks?
  • Group 3 - Effects of Flooding on the Environment
  • Group 4 - Soil contamination from the rubber plants. When, what, and how did it happen? What can we do about it?
  • Group 7- Climate change
  • Group 8 - The effects of construction/road construction on the environment

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Chemical Engineering & Waste Solutions

Topics associated with this category: chemical waste management, solutions for industrial pollution

Group associated with this category:

 Group 2- Chemical wastes and solutions in the chemical engineering field

Recommended Databases:

  • Academic Search Complete  – Start your search here! 

  • Knovel – Technical handbooks and practical engineering solutions

  • Reaxys – Chemical reactions, properties, and substance data

  • ScienceDirect – Applied chemical engineering and environmental studies

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Health & Pollution

Topics associated with this category: Health risks of microplastics, water pollution, microplastics effects on humans

Group associated with this category:

  •  Group 1- Microplastics are not environmentally friendly and cause medical issues. How do they affect people using waterparks?

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Mechanical Processes & Efficiency

Topics included in this category: Tribology, friction, wear, and energy loss

Suggested Databases:

Recommended eJournals:

Tribology Transactions – Peer-reviewed tribology research on friction, wear, lubricants, lubrication, materials, machines and moving components.

Journals like Wear and Tribology International

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Environmental Impact & Sustainability

Topics associated with this category: Smart trash cans

Group associated with this category:

Group 6- Waste management, smart trash cans to help manage under- and overfilling

Suggested Databases:

  • Academic Search Complete – Start your search here!

  • IEEE Xplore – Smart systems, sensors, and IoT

  • ScienceDirect – Smart cities and environmental engineering

  • SpringerLink – AI-based waste sorting and smart infrastructure