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Capstone Projects
Lafayette Resilience Capstone
January 2026 - Current!
For my Masters of Environment program I'm working with two other students to build out the Colorado City of Lafayette's resilience.
* Resilience in the context of sustainability is described as the ability of a city or urban community to withstand, recover from or adapt to man-made and natural disasters.
Included in this project is some of the following:
• Currently (spring 2026) building out a Scope of Work document that will guide our tasks for the next year.
• Lafayette's core aim with this project is to create a Neighborhood Resilience Toolkit. This toolkit will be a short document that includes resources for the community to self organize in the face of climate change impacts.
• My team and I will be evaluating what the community wants and needs for this resilience toolkit. Examples include: a step by step on building a fire evacuation plan, resources for how to decrease water usage, how to make your property more fire resilient.
Fluorinert Cooled Test Chamber
August 2021 - May 2022
I managed a capstone project sponsored by Microsoft, leading a team of five engineers to develop a prototype test chamber for their research division.
• Given that servers facilities use a burdensome amount of water, Microsoft set out to find a better way to cool their facilities.
• Especially with current data-center water usage concerns, this project of a closed-loop cooling system was and continues to be a promising option for how to create more sustainable data centers to support the internet and associated processes, as well as artificial intelligence.
• Microsoft was testing two-phase immersion cooling using M-3's Fluorinert. My team was tasked to build a vessel that held server components submerged in Fluorinert for testing high-efficiency two-phase immersion cooling servers
• We designed and delivered a functional vessel design and prototype to help test oil / material contamination into the Fluorinert (contamination reduces the two-phase efficiency)
The Team
From left to right:
Wren Bandrowski, Jen Espersen, Quinn Choffin, Connor McCreary, Haseeb Irfan, Kevin Antony Gomez
The Deliverable
A functional 2-phase immersion cooled computer
This design would serve as a test chamber for Microsoft to observe flourinert contamination over time on a smaller scale than their large data center containers
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