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Capstone Projects
Lafayette Resilience Hubs
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
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• Lafayette's core aim with this project is to build a plan for Resilience Hubs for their community. Resilience hubs are places where a community goes in crisis for shelter / resources / centralized health support / safety
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• My team and I will be evaluating what the community needs from resilience hubs in the case of fire / extreme heat / flood / large weather events / ongoing crisis
Fluorinert Cooled Test Chamber
August 2021 - May 2022
I project managed for a capstone Microsoft put together for me and four other engineers. We worked to create 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
• 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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