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Exclusive Summary: Diabetes Happy Meal, Bhawinee Banchongraksa

Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects

Brief summary of application software designed to assist diabetics to make healthy dietary choices, and to offer means to buy ingredients online.

Flipscreen.Ai, Christopher Davis

Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects

Slides from a presentation outlining a new software product that pushes real time, personalized fantasy data directly to viewers' televisions, allowing them to better play skill based fantasy sports games.

Sequential: Sustainability And Growth In The Biofuels Business, Dave Garten, Jacen Greene, Carolyn Niehaus, Devdeep Aikath

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

SeQuential, a vertically-integrated biodiesel company based in Portland, Oregon, pursued a more sustainable supply and production strategy than many competitors by securing inputs from used cooking oil (UCO) rather than new crops. A fragmented U.S. biodiesel industry produced more than 1.25 billion gallons of the fuel in 2016 from a mix of virgin materials and UCO, but the environmental impact of crop-based biodiesel was increasingly controversial. Meanwhile, UCO collection had grown rapidly in recent years, and with strong forecasted growth, offered a potential additional revenue stream for vertically-integrated biodiesel firms.

The price of the UCO used to produce SeQuential’s biodiesel …