Fatema Tuz Zohra
MS in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, August 2020
Texas State University
We are excited to introduce and congratulate Fatema Tuz Zohra, who is graduating with her Masters in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering this August! Fatema was one of the top 5 finalists in the Graduate Collegiate Competition in San Diego, CA. She also participated in the WE’19 conference, where she learned some very useful tips and tricks from the lightning talks. She is also an active member of SWE at Texas State in the Ingram School of Engineering.
Fatema received the prestigious Graduate College Scholarship during her master’s admission for being one of the best candidates. She was awarded the Alpha Chi Honor Society recognition certificate and Certificate of Academic Excellence 2019 for her consistent good grades in all courses during her first year. Recently, she received a scholarship from the Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund as a prestigious appreciation.
Fatema writes an informal blog where prospective international students can find useful resources, guidance, and tips to accomplish their dreams of higher study abroad. In the Bangladeshi Student Association (BSA), she volunteers her time for the academic development of new students by guiding them through university resources and helps them to adjust with the cultural shock of a new country. She helped 6 new students in Fall 2019 by organizing a workshop on effectively finding research-related literature and efficiently using reference manager tools such as Mendeley or Endnote, which helped them to score good grades in their course projects. For outstanding contribution to international students, the International Student and Scholar Services of TxState University awarded her the Robert M. Seese Award (2019).
Fatema’s research is on the design and development of an integrated water system, combining a rainwater harvesting system and an atmospheric water generator. With the growing population, we face a challenge of freshwater scarcity, especially when 70% of this water is used for farming globally. Rain is one of the resources that we can easily use by capture and filtration. But there are 4 states (Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah) where collecting rainwater is illegal to preserve the water right for everyone. Then comes the atmospheric water generation (AWG) technology which can condensate moisture from air and pass it through a filtration system to make it potable. The water production for this technology largely depends on temperature and relative humidity. There are of course a few areas on earth with extreme cold and extreme hot weather where this technology would not be very helpful. Other than that, combining a rain and atmospheric water generator can provide a consistent water supply year-round. She found that these two systems peak their productions in opposite seasons several times in a year by studying 4 years of data (2014~2017). Introducing automation to AWG and making it 'smart' in a way that it can operate automatically, sensing the demand and environmental condition, makes the integrated system even more efficient and consistent.
The next steps of Fatema’s research would be validating its financial feasibility as well as the quality of water in comparison to supply water. Her water system is currently under experiment for a vertical hydroponic farming facility at Freeman Center, San Marcos, TX. Her system has the potential to be scalable and modifiable depending on demand size, area of interest and application type. Fatema’s career goal is to pursue her doctoral degree after completion of her Masters study.
Fatema’s hobbies include reading adventure and detective books, watching animated movies, travelling, and painting.
Fun fact: She hides her daughter's books so that she cannot keep bringing them one after another for her to read to her, especially during bedtime!
Find Fatema on her personal website: https://zohrabd1971.wixsite.com/website
MS in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, August 2020
Texas State University
We are excited to introduce and congratulate Fatema Tuz Zohra, who is graduating with her Masters in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering this August! Fatema was one of the top 5 finalists in the Graduate Collegiate Competition in San Diego, CA. She also participated in the WE’19 conference, where she learned some very useful tips and tricks from the lightning talks. She is also an active member of SWE at Texas State in the Ingram School of Engineering.
Fatema received the prestigious Graduate College Scholarship during her master’s admission for being one of the best candidates. She was awarded the Alpha Chi Honor Society recognition certificate and Certificate of Academic Excellence 2019 for her consistent good grades in all courses during her first year. Recently, she received a scholarship from the Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund as a prestigious appreciation.
Fatema writes an informal blog where prospective international students can find useful resources, guidance, and tips to accomplish their dreams of higher study abroad. In the Bangladeshi Student Association (BSA), she volunteers her time for the academic development of new students by guiding them through university resources and helps them to adjust with the cultural shock of a new country. She helped 6 new students in Fall 2019 by organizing a workshop on effectively finding research-related literature and efficiently using reference manager tools such as Mendeley or Endnote, which helped them to score good grades in their course projects. For outstanding contribution to international students, the International Student and Scholar Services of TxState University awarded her the Robert M. Seese Award (2019).
Fatema’s research is on the design and development of an integrated water system, combining a rainwater harvesting system and an atmospheric water generator. With the growing population, we face a challenge of freshwater scarcity, especially when 70% of this water is used for farming globally. Rain is one of the resources that we can easily use by capture and filtration. But there are 4 states (Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah) where collecting rainwater is illegal to preserve the water right for everyone. Then comes the atmospheric water generation (AWG) technology which can condensate moisture from air and pass it through a filtration system to make it potable. The water production for this technology largely depends on temperature and relative humidity. There are of course a few areas on earth with extreme cold and extreme hot weather where this technology would not be very helpful. Other than that, combining a rain and atmospheric water generator can provide a consistent water supply year-round. She found that these two systems peak their productions in opposite seasons several times in a year by studying 4 years of data (2014~2017). Introducing automation to AWG and making it 'smart' in a way that it can operate automatically, sensing the demand and environmental condition, makes the integrated system even more efficient and consistent.
The next steps of Fatema’s research would be validating its financial feasibility as well as the quality of water in comparison to supply water. Her water system is currently under experiment for a vertical hydroponic farming facility at Freeman Center, San Marcos, TX. Her system has the potential to be scalable and modifiable depending on demand size, area of interest and application type. Fatema’s career goal is to pursue her doctoral degree after completion of her Masters study.
Fatema’s hobbies include reading adventure and detective books, watching animated movies, travelling, and painting.
Fun fact: She hides her daughter's books so that she cannot keep bringing them one after another for her to read to her, especially during bedtime!
Find Fatema on her personal website: https://zohrabd1971.wixsite.com/website
