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“green engineering;” “environmentally conscious manufacturing;” “profits, people, and planet;” and “minimization are some of the terms that have recently entered the engineering lexicon and that describe the move towards “sustainability.” However, each of these terms can mean different things to different people; thus, when discussing and making decisions about “sustainability,” responsible description and action requires clarity and specificity. Whether constructing a new highway, designing a new product, or improving a manufacturing process, responsibly defining “sustainability” and responsibly, consistently acting on those definitions are at the forefront of challenges today’s engineers face.

A responsible, ethical engineer will always be aware of issues of “sustainability” when developing a system, process, or product. With the addition of discussion on “sustainability” in your revised Conference Paper, you demonstrate your awareness of how particular definitions and aspects of sustainability must be considered within the context and outcomes of your topic. Through your discussion of “sustainability,” you enhance your readers’ understanding of how engineers involved in the developments, systems, innovations, products, and/or outcomes associated with your topic must balance social, environmental, and economic needs and pressures.

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AUTHOR INDEX

C14 Abdel-Messih, George

A11 Adams, Simon

C2 Agerbak, Sam

B14 Ajose, Alexander

C11 Akram, Shayan

B13 Alamo-Rosas, Raquel

B8 Albu, Tudor

A10 Alfirevic, Adrian

A12 Alfonzo, Valentina

C12 Allwein, Chris

A5 Altunal, Berra

B10 Anderson, Luke

C10 Anderson, Stephanie

B13 Anfuso, John

B14 Arduino, Nicholas

A7 Arunchander, Tanvi

B6 Asmuth-Day, Clementine

A6 Aziz, Afshana

C4 Babilon, Gia

B5 Babouche, Liana

C3 Badrane, Riad

C9 Badrinath, Sruthi

B4 Bajek, Jacob

A4 Baradwaj, Sharanya

C13 Barker, Brett

B4 Barnett, Graham

B11 Baron, Andrea

C8 Barrall, Elena

A11 Barzen, Ava

A6 Beers, Avery

C7 Belch, Chris

B5 Bender, Amelia

B14 Benner, Mason

B4 Bennett, Chris

B9 Bennett, George

C1 Berhanu, Feven

A4 Bernas, Therese

B13 Bird, Brandon

A10 Black, Nicholas

C11 Bleice, Gabrielle

A5 Bloser, Julia

A6 Bogaert-Lee, Nicholas

B6 Bogdanski, Kayla

A5 Bogler, Brian

C14 Bolek, Adam

A4 Boras, Maddie

C12 Botes, Emma

B9 Bower, Caleb

C14 Brashear, Caleb

B13 Brazhnikov, Platon

C10 Breighner, Avery

B6 Bricker, Mary

C1 Brinkerhoff, Ava

A5 Brister, Emma

A9 Britton, Ben

C5 Brosius, Tanner

A6 Bruette, Christopher

B13 Bruni, Frankie

B8 Brzowski, Brady

C8 Buhr, Matthew

C2 Bunovich, George

C8 Burke, Riley

C10 Burness, Jaiden

A14 Cameron, Layton

B8 Cardenas, Mason

A4 Carey, Aivlen

C2 Castillo Betancourt, Ignacio

C8 Castillo, Cristina

A12 Catchen, Wyatt

A11 Cengel, Elena

A4 Chaer, Michael

B10 Chan, Cyrus

C5 Chase, Owen

C9 Chen, Athena

A12 Chen, Edward

B7 Chen, Jonathan

C5 Chen, Vincent

A8 Chhetri, Upash

C9 Chiarella, Matteo

C14 Chin, Tyler

A8 Choe, Ryan

B10 Choi, David

B6 Christensen, Isabella

B4 Christenson, Ari

C7 Chung, Luke

C7 Citrino, Alexander

C9 Clark, Elena

B8 Clineff, Chris

C7 Coates, Natalie

C8 Cohen, Maddox

B6 Collier, Sarah

B4 Collins, Kade

B8 Colmenares Bittar, Juan Pablo

C6 Comunale, Nico

B9 Conway, Kellen

B6 Cooper, Olivia

A10 Corbett, Selah

C2 Corigliano, Derek

C14 Cottrill, Aliya

B11 Covey, Corinne

B9 Coyne, Katelyn

A7 Cramer, Wil

A14 Crandall, Matthew

B13 Creagh, Liam

B4 Creighton, Liam

C3 Crisi, AJ

C9 Culver, Kate

B4 Cun, Lyon

B9 D’Amato, Oscar

A9 Dana, Jack

A13 D’Andrea, Liliana

C2 Daniel, Jai

B9 Dass, Jishnu

C2 Davern, Aiden

B11 Davis, Clayton

A12 Davis, Landon

C4 Dayo, Gideon

A4 Deane, Isaac

C6 Decter, Nathaniel

A7 Defeo, Matthew

B6 Depasquale, Shahin

C8 Devaki, Shrida

A12 Diaz-Tafel, Felix

C5 DiNatale, Emanuel

B5 Dipalma, Katie

C10 Divergilio, Aliya

A14 Djurasevic, Gabriella

A12 Donnelly, TJ

A12 Dotiwalla, Aryan

B12 Dreher, Georgia

C3 Duarte Madeira, Anna

C11 Dunkerley, Logan

C9 Durka, Addacie

B12 Dzanaj, Cooper

C6 Ebarb, Evan

A9 Eljoufri, Othmane

A10 Elsayed, Tasneem

B13 Embert, James

B12 Engel, Cole

B8 Ennis, Ethan

B7 Enos, Oliver

C13 Essner, Samuel

A11 Fabina, Dravyn

B14 Fairfield, Helen

C13 Farmerie, Reed

A14 Fela, Audrey

B14 Feltenberger, Reed

A12 Fiedler, Aleks

C5 Fingal, Brennan

C3 Fisher, Brady

B6 Flaherty, Winaida

A12 Fluhr, Emory

B7 Fojas, Connor

A9 Forbes, Adam

B5 Ford, Logan

C14 Foster, Uma

C4 Franks, Jacob

C5 Freed, Nathan

A8 Fregoli, Paolo

C11 Furko, Noah

C11 Gajan, Andrew

C9 Gales, Renee

B12 Gallagher, Michael

A11 Gangwar, Snigdha

B4 Garro, Clementine

A6 Gaston, Helen

C6 Gawronski, Drew

A6 Gayle, Paris

C13 Geer, Isaac

C2 Ghimire, Nishma

B5 Giandomenico, Xander

B8 Gibson, Ben

B4 Gillin, Sean

B13 Gingerich, Izzy

C4 Glover, Jack

C12 Glynn, Sean

B4 Golden, Olivia

B8 Gordon, Erin

A11 Gourley, Isaac

A4 Gower, Gianni

A4 Granfield, Ted

B8 Grant, Caitlin

B8 Gray, Olivia

B14 Gregoire, Nate

B13 Griffin, Pierce

A7 Grindle, Reese

C8 Gross, Aidan

B10 Grous, Eleanor

A7 Groves, Morgan

C9 Gunthert, Claire

C7 Guo, Sean

A5 Haberman, Nathan

B11 Haddock, Hattee

B6 Halleran, Krosby

C1 Hansell, Patrick

C7 Hanson, Jack

C1 Hardel, Braden

C6 Harder, Maxwell

B14 Harding, Matthew

C1 Harrell, Nirvan

C6 Harrison, Patrick

A6 Hart, Declan

B12 Hartman, Thatcher

B11 Hashem, Jad

A7 Hassel, Ozzie

A10 Heineman, Eric

B13 Heineman, Matthew

A9 Henceroth, Max

B12 Henchir, Kate

C7 Hering, Rylan

C8 Hicks, Garrett

C13 Hill, Ben

C3 Hockenberry, Brady

B6 Hockett, Nia

B7 Holtcamp, Siddarth

C7 Horgan, Connor

B12 Horne, Justin

A14 Hrbek, Max

C9 Hughes, Isaac

C12 Hull, Hannah

A14 Hunt, Anisha

C4 Hutjens, Andrew

B9 Iavarone, Massimo

B10 Ingram, Ainsley

A12 Ivory, Abbygail

A5 Jacoby, Carson

B10 Jadhav, Amogh

A6 Jakiela, John

B14 Jalosinski, Gracie

B4 Janapareddy, Rishi

C9 Jarrar, Max

B14 Jennings, Evan

C7 Jens, Gilbert

B4 Jensen, Finn

C3 Jiang, Kevin

A6 Johns, Ava

A7 Jordan, Dominic

B11 Jordan, James

A4 Joshi, Siya

A8 Julin, Jacob

C12 Kachmar, Nathan

B7 Kalbach, Dante

A4 Kandalam, Abhiraam

C10 Kaufman, Owen

B12 Kearn, Izel

C14 Kelly, Niko

B11 Kendall, Ben

A7 Keys, Leyton

A11 Khan, Saba

C9 Khan, Zaara

C7 Killeen, JT

C1 Kim, Alex

B14 Kim, Eric

B10 Kim, Jack

A8 Kim, Noah

A6 Klan, Hayleigh

A7 Klein, Maggie

C5 Klypka, Dasha

C8 Knight, Esther

C1 Knight, Kyle

B6 Knight, Nathaniel

C8 Kohn, Ilan

B8 Kong’Ong’O, Tatyana

B11 Konieczka, Evan

A11 Kosta, Ava

C3 Kostelac, Colby

C8 Kovacs, Madison

C5 Krastev, Nicholas

B8 Kuang, Anson

C13 Kuchma, Cooper

B12 Kueny, Jack

C13 Kuhl, Mick

A4 Kuljic, Pavle

B11 Kumar, Shivam

B7 Kumar, Siddhant

B4 Kuniak, Morgan

C5 Kuriakose, Reuben

A12 Kwakwa, Ekua

B10 Kwiatkowski, Benjamin

A14 Kwon, Danielle

C9 LaBella, Maggie

C2 Lafave, Jake

B14 Lam, Jonathan

A10 lamm, grayson

C8 Lancet, Amelia

C13 Landman, Malorie

A9 Lanza, Lincoln

A12 Latona, Pierce

A10 Laughlin, Lia

B5 Laux, Spencer

B5 Leahy, Will

B5 Ledo, Makayla

A12 Lee, Florence

B6 Lee, Jordan

C12 Lee, Yujin

A13 Lehman, Emily

C8 Lentz, Ian

B5 Leopold, Henry

C7 Leshem, Idan

C4 Leskovic, Niko

B11 Letcher, Chris

B12 Levy, Andrew

A8 Liang, Ethan

C9 Lim, Samantha

A11 Lin, Brendon

C10 Lin, Raymond

A10 Lindsay, Tavis

B12 Linkenheimer, Levi

A8 Listner, Greg

A13 Logan, Ian

B11 Lorenz, Cordy

A11 Louderback, Carter

A14 Lundelius, Luke

A12 Luo, Celine

C1 Lyles, Mia

A14 Madrigal, Mariana

C1 Magiera, Xander

C1 Mahadevan, Sneha

C5 Mahali, Manas Varma

C8 Malloy, Margaret

C1 Mamane, Gabi

C5 Manganaro, Paul

C12 Martin, Aidan

A6 Mastria, Massimo

B4 Mattole, Maddox

C6 Mazuca, Olivia

A9 Mcbride, Luke

B14 Mccoy, Molly

C3 Mcgowan, Samuel

C12 Mckendry, Quinn

A13 Mckinney, Brandon

C8 Mcmoil, Abigail

C10 Medvid, Jackson

C9 Medzoyan, Alex

C7 Megahed, Karem

B14 Menon, Vaishnavi Ullas

A8 Mercincavage, Zach

C7 Messe, Lawson

B4 Mest, Everton

C4 Michael, Austin

C11 Miller, Matt

C3 Miller, Opal

B11 Mills, Jack

C1 Minutolo, Ananda

C14 Mirji, Dhruv

A13 Mitchell, Tom

C11 Mlynek, Conrad

B14 Molesevich, Garrett

A13 Monroe, Katie

B7 Moore, Alex

B9 Moore, Alexander

B5 Moore, Ben

B14 Moore, Shannon

B4 Moore, Simon

B7 Moyer, Henry

A4 Mucho, Owen

C1 Mukherjee, Aditya

A13 Mullins, Coen

C1 Murphy, Chloe

B14 Murray, Jameson

C8 Murray, Matt

C3 Mutchler, Nicholas

C12 Nagathota, Josh

C14 Nair, Siddhant

C4 Nebel, Hayden

A10 Negron, Amanda

A14 Neil, Trevor

A10 Neuer, Beck

A4 Ngo, Kayla

A11 Nguyen, Anhthu

B9 Nguyen, Ky

B8 Nguyen, Trang

B6 Ni, Andy

A5 Ni, Chanel

B10 Nicoara, Christopher

C14 Nicolau, Matt

A11 Ninan, Rebecca

C4 Njunge, Jesse

A6 Noel-Brown, Juno

A9 Nulwala, Komel

B8 Numfor, Scott

C11 Nybeck, Kevin

A10 Obadic, Bruno

C9 Odeniyi, Angie

C13 Odeyemi, Kenneth

A11 Oguku, Beatrice

A14 Omara, Frank

B10 Orsborn, Ryan

C13 Ortega-Brown, Santiago

C14 Padarthi, Nidhesh

C1 Padmanabhan, Shivani

B4 Padron, Andrew

A13 Palmer, Madelyn

C5 Pan, Kristy

C7 Paradis, Jaydon

C5 Park, Jasmine

C3 Patel, Adit

B11 Patel, Ansh

B12 Patel, Anshi

A12 Patel, Anshum

A9 Pattison, Colleen

A5 Peglowski, Alexander

B6 Peralta, Luke

A11 Perry, Zander

C3 Persigo Vargas, Vitoria

A14 Peters, John

A11 Peterson, Lila

C6 Pham, Aaron

C14 Pham, Elise

B11 Piasecki, Gavin

A10 Pillai, Kolappa

C12 Ploucquet, Ian

C12 Poling, Drew

C3 Pons, Christopher

C6 Porter, Brendan

A6 Powell, Ethan

C8 Prange, Jackson

A13 Pusey, Adelaide

B11 Qadir, Rehma

C1 Qi, Sarah

B9 Quinn, Cullen

A8 Quinn, Noah

A11 Rabie, Ahmad

B7 Raizen, Kody

C5 Rajkumar, Sriram

A4 Raleigh, Nick

A11 Ralston, Conner

C3 Ramdass, Zachary

A5 Ramirez, Maria

B6 Ramirez, Remy

B10 Ranjan, Derek

C13 Rankin, Brady

A9 Rapaport, Jared

C13 Rarrick, Conor

A10 Ratchford, Lara

A12 Razon, Justin Aldric

C3 Regan, Ty

A11 Rengaramanujam Kanagaraj, Varnujah

B7 Rennekamp, Connor

B13 Reuss, George

C11 Reynolds, Peter

B10 Rhodes, Damien

C5 Rick, Owen

C9 Riley, Braden

A8 Riley, Hailey

A12 Rivera, Armando

C10 Rizer, Caiden

C13 Robbins, Diana

B11 Robertson, Ellery

B9 Robinson, Alanna

C10 Rodriguez, Olivia

C5 Romero, Ed

A9 Rondon, Andre

B5 Rosenberg, Gage

A7 Ross, Samantha

C5 Roth, Kip

C12 Route, Braden

B4 Roy, Rishi

A4 Rubenstein, Ty

C11 Rudy, Gigi

A7 Safe Carneiro Serwy, Lucca

A8 Salvatore, Matthew

A13 Samuels, Grace

A4 Sarabekova, Aisha

B7 Saravanakumar, Sid

A4 Saravanan, Mithuna

C14 Sarisky, Jansen

A11 Satory, Kaia

C9 Savitch, Joshua

C6 Schaller, Kyle

A5 Schlaufman, Maya

C3 Schnore, Ben

A5 Schoonover, Isabel

C4 Schroll Wood, Jay

C12 Scibetta, Lauren

B11 Scioscia, Will

C4 Scott, Jake

B7 See, Benjamin

A11 Sevak, Aarya

C10 Shah, Arjun

C10 Shea, Catherine

C9 Shelly, Rowan

A11 Sheridan, James

B10 Shipton, Brady

C10 Short, Nicole

C12 Siegal, Josh

C7 Singh, Vera

B14 Sirigiri, Aaron

B7 Sitaraman, Arjun

C7 Sitler, Thor

B12 Sivakumar Venkataraman, Rakshita

C7 Sluiter, Dhevan

C5 Smith, Ethan

A5 Smith, Morgan

A5 Snyder, Landen

A7 Solano, Gabe

A8 Spicer, Jason

B13 Stansberry, Jackson

C1 Steinberg, Jacob

A14 Steinmetz, James

C5 Sterling, Amani

A13 Stermitz, Tyler

A9 Stewart, Miles

B5 Stewart, Noelle

B13 Stonecheck, Mitchell

C8 Stoughton, Lilyanna

A5 Subramanian, Adithya

C2 Sui, Sui

A13 Suplick, Nathaniel

B10 Suresh, Guhun

C3 Sureshkumar, Eashan

C5 Suwannachin, Pun

C14 Swartz, Jack

C3 Tabak, Anthony

B9 Talai, Hunter

C2 Tang, Joy

A4 Tar, Nicholas

C10 Taylor, Christopher

B13 Taylor, Michael

A8 Thakore, Raheel

C7 Theodorakos, Liam

A7 Thomas, Campbell

C3 Thomas, Garrett

C12 Thondaiman, Meg

A10 Thornton, Liam

C3 Tong, Jacob

B14 Tong, Stephen

B9 Torres, Jaxon

C11 Torster, Blake

A7 Trivedi, Twisha

C10 Troha, Shawnee

C5 Tulett, Reid

A9 Turk, Madison

A7 Uganandan, Jash

B4 Ukwandu, Emmanuel

C9 Umbright, Tyler

B4 Undie, Shasha

B8 Unice, Kaden

C8 Vaidyanathan, Vishaka

B11 Valderrama, Maximilian

A5 Valentine, Emily

B11 Varkey, Jayden

C6 Vazquez, Maddy

B7 Venkadesan, Nikhil

B5 Vinansky, Luke

B11 Vishruth Kumar Reddy, Alladu

A13 Walker, Bella

B14 Walker, Sean

B4 Walsh, Madelyn

A13 Walters, Rebecca

B5 Ward, Ava

C13 Watkins, Anthony

C8 Watson, Madeleine

A12 Weidner, Willa

C9 Weinik-Brewer, Oscar

B10 Weinstein, Etamar

B13 Wells, Toni

B11 Whalen, Nora

A6 Wheeles, Cassandra

B9 Whitley, Nathan

A13 Whowell, Alexander

C10 Wiegner, Matthew

A4 Wild-Coll, Dylan

A12 Wilson, Abby

C8 Wilson, Carter

B12 Winschel, Andrew

A14 Wist, Nathan

C13 Wojdelko, Bryan

A9 Wolf, Gabriel

B7 Wolff, Aaron

B9 Wong, Tim

B12 Workman, Natalie

C1 Wright, Grace

A8 Wu, Josh

C1 Wu, Ruixuan

A10 Xu, Kyle

A9 Ye, Timothy

B14 Yelcick, Emily

A4 Yonker, Casie

A6 Young Bey, Anastasia

A8 Zagorski, Gracie

C6 Zheng, Ethan

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