Membrane Experiments For Pollution Prevention

A major objective of the Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics at Rowan University is to introduce students to open-ended design projects. The purpose of the clinic classes is to provide engineering students with a hands-on, multidisciplinary experience throughout their college education. This type of innovative approach for allowing students to become involved in realistic open-ended design problems is beneficial for enhancing their problem solving skills and encourages them to pursue graduate studies. The engineering clinics emphasize multidisciplinary design on projects of progressive complexity. This paper focuses on the design and development of experiments to illustrate membrane technology for pollution prevention. A multidisciplinary student team conducted a thorough literature search and developed innovative membrane experiments to demonstrate pollution prevention. These experiments can be used by various disciplines in engineering such as environmental and chemical engineering.