By Tawfiq Zubairu, Current Sustainability Student As part of our spring ’25 capstone project, my partner Wasiu Alimi and I have been working on developing strategies to address flooding in Lokoja through Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) that also integrate renewable energy generation. Being a Kogi native, this work is personally meaningful. While it’s a departure from my electrical engineering background, it has been incredibly rewarding to develop new skills in geospatial and meteorological analysis and spark an interest in the dynamic interactions between urban environments and natural systems. A highlight of this journey was attending the Waterfront Alliance‘s annual …
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Decarbonize CCNY
Beginning with Professor Stephanie Rose’s capstone team project in 2022, a student-led decarbonization effort has gained momentum on campus. Here is a roundup of some progress to date, including the work of the Sustainability Students. In the Spring of 2024, the PSC-CUNY Environmental Justice Working group launched a plan to hold Decarbonization Town Halls on all CUNY Campuses. The first took place in May at Brooklyn College. With support from PSC-CUNY, Public Power NY, and NYPIRG, CCNY hosted a Town Hall on September 26th, 2024. Below is the video of that event. In Fall of 2024, capstone team Dave Myers, …
Final Capstone Presentations, Spring 2023
Find the embedded videos here for our final capstone project presentations from last Spring. The first presentation starts at 10 minutes in and below is the order indicating when each presentation begins. Presentation order: Decarbonizing CCNY (at 10 minutes) Supporting Disaster Assessment and Infrastructure Recovery in Ukraine (at 53 minutes) Impact of Construction Materials on the Success of Resiliency Plans (at 1 hour and 41 minutes)