This year we had over 240 Senior Design projects working with over 120 sponsors, which represented extremely innovative solutions to some of engineering’s most challenging problems. While narrowing down our favorites was very hard, below are the departmental winners from our 2022 in-person Senior Design Demonstration Day. Congrats to all of our winners*, and all of our seniors for completing their projects!
Biomedical Engineering
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Beekley Family Foundation, Connecticut Breast Health Initiative, UCONN College of Engineering
Project Title: Personalized 3D Printed Breast Forms
Team 4 Members
Jacqueline Cooper
Margaret Easson
Nayara Zainadine
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: N/A
Project Title: Device and Mobile App for Retinal Imaging Diagnosis
Team 1 Members
Max Barton
Joseph Castellano
Ling Chi
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: Biomedical Engineering Department
Project Title: Design and Fabrication of Soft Hydrogels to Mimic Brain Matter to Model Traumatic Brain Injury
Team 18 Members
Olivia Rice
Leah Faber
Sydney Griger
Kristen Soldau
Apolline Vincent
Leah Sobotka
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Unilever
Project Title: Characterization of Aeration Techniques for Skincare Products
Team 8 Members
Duncan Edel
Tim Rodrigue
Nina Huczko
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Nel Hydrogen
Project Title: Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis and Symbolic Regression of a Water-Oxygen Separator in the Hydrogen Production Process
Team 2 Members
Christine Sharabun
Sloane Putnam
Cat Odendahl
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: Spring Valley Student Farm
Project Title: Aquaponics System for Spring Valley Student Farm
Team 23 Members
Justin Amengual
Kaylee Walsh
Emily Miller
Civil Engineering
1st Place
Project Sponsor: VHB
Project Title: Modern Roundabout at the Intersection of Hunting Lodge Road and North Eagleville Road
Team 10 Members:
Kaitlyn Kondos
Nicole Martocchio
Joseph Mikulewicz
Avishan Montazer
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: Stantec
Project Title: Design of Site Work for Reconstruction of Washington Elementary School, West Haven, CT
Team 20 Members
Fiona Casey
Aidan Fay
Katie Laresch
Meg Sirowich
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: Luchs/DeCarlo & Doll
Project Title: Design of the Extension of Constitution Boulevard West in Shelton, CT
Team 21 Members
Samuel Baum
Brad Kelle
Jacob Zakrzewicz
Computer Science and Engineering
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Amir Herzberg
Project Title: CTng: An Improved Public Key Infrastructure Scheme
Team 4 Members
Finn Navin
Isaac Teles
Jie Kong
Marcus Barone
Millenia Polanco
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: Budderfly
Project Title: Anomaly Detection for IoT Devices
Team 31 Members
Prateek Kapoor
Kelsey Mitchell
Jake McNamara
Matthew Togher
Aikambir Walia
Project Sponsor: Synchrony
Project Title: CareCredit Application for iOS Devices
Team 18 Members
Jacob Zadroga
Joe Crawford
Tim O’Meara
Jacob Starks
Mahdi Kazi
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Collins Aerospace
Project Title: Compact and Robust Data Logger
Team 13 Members
Jeremy Amoro
Michael Benvenuto
Diego Vilca
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: Triumph Gropu
Project Title: 1500W Brushless DC Motor Controller
Team 2229 Members
Jacob Parent
James Hipsky
Bolivar Baez
Jan Feyen
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: Accelerate UConn
Project Title: Airborne Virus Extermination Device
Team 2206 Members
Rogenry Munoz
Rafael Soliven
Toni Smakaj
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: NavSea Warfare Center
Project Title: Electromagnetic Expulsion of a Cylindrical Body from an Outer Tube
Team 2212 Members
Justin Maramo
Joseph DiBenedetto
Daisy Megnath
Environmental Engineering
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Loureiro
Project Title: Centredale Manor Restoration
Team 4 Members
Scott Ackerman
Taryn Shannon
Madeleine Hasson
Andrew Macklin
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: C.H.A.
Project Title: Design of New Stormwater Management and Septic System in Fire Station 140 in Tolland, CT
Team 9 Members
Stone Brown
Jessica Canty
Caroline Sabo
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: Town of Bolton
Project Title: Bolton Water Connection
Team 2 Members
Ethan Lo
Zachary Sagendorf
Juanita Toro
Kaelie Moran
Management and Engineering for Manufacturing
1st Place
Project Sponsor: Collins Aerospace
Project Title: Designing and Prototyping an Electromechanical Tool Prototype to Automate Fuel Controls and Increase Efficiency
Team 6 Members
Zachary Parker
Alex Palvinski
Arthur Lihar
Matt Lozito
2nd Place
Project Sponsor: Fletcher
Project Title: Redesign of Auto Frame Robot to Improve Clamping Stability
Team 11 Members
Isabella Donadio
Katrina Granovskiy
Mitchell Hornak
Harrison Cao
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: TOMZ Corporation
Project Title: Automating the Pressing Process in the Assembly of Spinal Screws with a Failure Detection System to Decrease Human Error
Team Members
Daniel Schumann
Brian Toole
Alex Rizza
Materials Science and Engineering
1st Place
Sponsor: Norgren
Project Title Optimization of the Polymethyl methacrylate
Team 3 Members
Camille Martinez
Cole Accardi
Liam Gerety
Robert Williams
2nd Place
Project Sponsor:
Project Title: Determining Sintering Condition Through Non-Microscopy Based Techniques
Team 2 Members:
Jack Gibbons
Theresa Nosel
Thomas Greene
3rd Place
Project Sponsor: DevCom
Project Title: Computational Modeling of Solid Solution Hardening on Aluminum Alloys
Team 8 Members
Martin Birnbach
Ria Paranjape
Yirui Xiong
Mechanical Engineering
1st Place
Sponsor: Naval Underwater Warefare Center
Project Title: Electromag Expulsion of a Cylindrical Body from an Outer Tube
Team 34 Members
Jason Clark
Jeremy Lucien
Nathan Wetherell
1st Place
Sponsor: Whitcraft LLC
Project Title: Hands Free Poke Tacker
Team 63 Members
Conrad Baldwin
Graham Douglass
Zachery Roy
3rd Place
Sponsor: Professor Shahbazmohamadi
Project Title: Precision Polygon Scanning Femtosecond Laser System
Team 75 Members
Alexander M Blagojevic
Toni Moore
Professor’s Award
Sponsor: Professor Bilal
Project Title: Deployable origami-based structures
Team 71 Members
Ashmika Gupta