One M.S. student from the College of Engineering receives recognition each year for submitting an outstanding master’s thesis. The prize recognizes the major professor who has mentored the student as well as the particular student and draws attention to their exceptional research and accomplishments.
Patrick’s study concentrated on techno-economic analysis, which entails doing a thorough evaluation of a certain technology or production method to gauge the viability from a technical and economic standpoint of any given procedure. The topic of his thesis, “Techno-Economic Analysis of Large-Scale Cultivated Meat Production,” was cultivated meat, a cutting-edge technique that produces meat products by cultivating cells in reactors instead of using conventional animal farming.