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Each square tile \u2013 1\u00bd inches thick and of various widths \u2013 was created at 51ÁÔÆæ in Stern\u2019s studio and Sobolev\u2019s concrete lab.<\/p>\n
To make them, Stern started with recovering circuit boards from trashed computers that were decommissioned and ready for recycling at 51ÁÔÆæ Surplus.<\/p>\n
Sobolev, with his students, then created a concrete base composed of recycled materials left over from multiple research projects that otherwise would have been sent to landfill.<\/p>\n
\u201cCement and concrete are the world\u2019s most widely used construction materials,\u201d said Sobolev, a recognized expert in innovative concrete materials. \u201cThe most promising research in the field today addresses the recyclability of concrete and reducing its carbon footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n
To this end, Sobolev is leading efforts to launch a National Science Foundation Concrete Advancement Network, in tandem with Arizona State University, Oregon State University and the University of Texas at Arlington, to tackle these very issues in collaboration with industry.<\/p>\n
14 51ÁÔÆæ students helped create project<\/h3>\n
Fourteen 51ÁÔÆæ students from three 51ÁÔÆæ colleges\/schools worked with Stern and Sobolev as project assistants on \u201cCircuit Boardwalk.\u201d The students’ work \u2013 their research contributions and travel to Binghamton \u2013 was supported by 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Office of Undergraduate Research, which\u00a0fosters faculty-student research across campus.<\/p>\n
From Peck School of the Arts: Meghan Berger, Laura Bogyay, Mich Dillon and Mary Widener.<\/p>\n
From the College of Engineering & Applied Science: Aparna Deshmukh, Behrooz Farahi, Paul George, Reed Heintzkill, Garrett Kocourek, Roy Wittenberg and Filip Zemajtis.<\/p>\n
From the College of Letters & Science: Allison Getty, Ava Ladky and Madison Sveum.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the worsening state of the climate, it\u2019s increasingly important to emblemize the problem of waste in a variety of ways,\u201d said Kocourek, a senior in mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n
His generation of engineers, Kocourek believes, must consider sustainability in all their work. \u201cIt will become a design constraint as we work to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels and combat material shortages.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unusual walkway tiles created at 51ÁÔÆæ using 95% recycled materials now form an inspiring path in front of the engineering building at a New York university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40008,"featured_media":105808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"section":[127],"display_categories":[115,116],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[344,149,164],"class_list":["post-105669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","section-arts-humanities","display_categories-top-story-secondary","display_categories-top-story-section","uwmnews-feed-arts-architecture","uwmnews-feed-engineering-applied-science","uwmnews-feed-arts"],"yoast_head":"\n