An honors capstone design experience utilizing authentic industrial projects

The Design Internship in Pollution Prevention at The University of Tennesse e is an honors capstone design course in which source reduction is incorpor ated into the design of industrial processes. In this activity pollution pr evention through basic flowsheet development and equipment selection is emp hasized rather than conventional treatment of the effluent waste streams. T his activity was begun in 1990 and has involved 128 students and 32 project s. The number of projects per year has varied from 1 to 8. The output of ea ch of these activities is a design report. An important benefit of these ac tivities is an intensive process design experience for the students that em phasize pollution prevention concepts. The paper summarizes accomplishments and lessons learned.