Collect and Organize Technical and Marketing Materials

Gather and consolidate the business and technical materials relative to starting a new company (Zion) which resells licenses for vertical farming technology, sells hardware for vertical farming, and trains licensees. This project is to collect and prep the necessary materials prior to initiating commercial sales.

Market Analysis for Dewatering Truck Production

Our company has a patented dewatering truck prototype that is currently being field-tested, with drawings being prepared for commercial production. We are looking for a student or a team of students to prepare a market analysis to determine the competition, barriers to entry, potential market, price points, SWOT, etc. The primary goal for this project is to find an appropriate template for the market analysis and to complete a first draft.

Technical lead for market analysis - prototype commercialization

Our company has a patented dewatering truck prototype that is currently being field-tested. Student will be the technical liaison to the market analysis project (ongoing as a separate Riipen classroom project) and will provide technical subject matter expertise to six groups of marketing students. This student will help guide the marketing class to fully develop an analysis of the options available to our company for the commercialization of this truck, and the pros and cons of each option.

Testing, analysis & interpretation of wastewater and biosolids

Project is to test multiple beds of biosolids, plants and wastewater for multiple contaminants including emergent contaminants of interest. We are looking for analysis & interpretation of tests in a field mycoremediation project which is looking at the fate of various contaminants. Baseline testing needs to be conducted on composted biosolids, lagoon sludge & wastewater, and first-results testing done on mushrooms grown in biosolids. We are conducting cutting-edge research in the development of natural methods for processing wastewater and biosolids to remove all contaminants and toxins, beginning with the use of mushrooms to destroy harmful bacteria in solids. Samples for the composted biosolids, lagoon sludge, and wastewater are available indefinitely; samples of mushrooms grown in biosolids are available now until ~October, and samples for myco-remediated biosolids will be available anytime after September. Any or all of those samples can be included in project.