Senior Design Demonstration Day | 2023 Winning Teams

2023 Winning Teams

Biomedical Engineering

1st Place

Team 13

Sponsor AtlasXomics

Project Title Portable Vacuum and Temperature Regulator for Microfluidic Chip Flow

BME Team Members: Michael Katz and Alexander Kempton.

2nd Place

Team 3

Sponsor: Prof. G. Zheng

Project title: On-chip polymerase chain reaction (PCR) device

Team Members: Hannah Hyams and Emily Oliver.

3rd Place

Team 9

Sponsor: Prof. Hugo Posada-Quintero

Project title: Smartphone-based electroretinography

Team Members: Olivia Huddy and Aliyah Tomas.

Honorable Mention

Team 11

Sponsor: Prof. K. Hoshino

Project title: A Design for a Smart Shunt Sensor for Hydrocephalus

Team members: Adrian Aguirre, Aditi Jogdand, Samantha Mihalko.

Honorable Mention. Team 21

Sponsor: Prof. S. Nukavarapu

Project title: Joint-on-Chip Microfluidic Device for Osteoarthritis Disease Modeling and Drug Testing

Team Members: Chandrika Dhavala and Grace Goetz.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

1st Place

Team 1

Designing a Temperature Controlled Device for Nanostructural Characterization

Members

Cristian Rodriguez, Katelyn Megale, Katherine Petterson, Justin Paoloni

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mu-Ping Nieh

2nd Place

Team 8

Design of a Protein Purification Process from Crude Cell Lysates

Members

James Dubreuil, Amy Weiss, Melissa Santos, Sean Sullivan

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yongku Cho

3rd Place

Team 6

Modeling of the Water-Oxygen Phase Separator for an Electrolyzer

Sponsor: Nel Hydrogen

Members

Alyssa Azcarraga, Luis Medeiros, Mimi Griffin, Collin DeBaise

Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Bollas

Computer Science and Engineering

1st Place

Team 5

Project Title

HuskyFit Mobile Application

Members

Madison Sargeant
Morphy Kuffour
Bridget Smith Epaul
Eric Jara
Noah Ramdial
Ariannah Black

Sponsor

UConn Computer Science and Engineering

2nd Place

Team 7

Project Title

ARcademic

Members

Teagan D'addeo
Devin Civiello
Connor Rickermann
Jeffrey Bengiovanni
Nole Snieckus
Jason Cramer

Sponsor

Student Sponsored

3rd Place

Team 15

Project Title

Logic Broker Data Warehouse

Members

Rachel Parsons
Ryan Swanson
Katie Shi
Michael Ivain
Michael Tian

Sponsor

LogicBroker

Electrical and Computer Engineering

1^st Place: Team 2301

IFEC 2023 – Single-Phase Solid State Transformer

Team

Uiliam Kutrolli
Dawid Karpiej
Abram Rosario
Alfred Lee
Graduate Mentor- Desmon Simatupang

Sponsor

UConn Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

2^nd Place: Team 2304 (joint with ME)

ASNE Electric Powered Boat

Team

Trevor Ethier
Conor Mahony
Aidan Myatt
Benjamin Taylor

Sponsor: American Society Naval Engineering

3^rd Place: Team 2311

Embedded Encoding for Biosensor Implants [link]

Members

Y'leise Saez
Kaitlyn Rauccio
Tian Wang
Lucas Scarante

Sponsor

Biorasis

Environmental Engineering

1st Place

Team ENVE04

Project Title

Plainfield Central Middle School Stormwater Management Plan and Outreach

Members

Jordan Buslewicz
Megan Judge
Abril Martinez-Arraya
Max Moore

2nd Place

Team ENVE02

Project Title

Copper Source Identification in New Milford Wastewater Biosolids

Carrington Henry
Ben Manoli
Cole McNamara
Sandra Ruiz

3rd Place

Team ENVE03

Project Title

Soil Vapor Extraction System Design and Closure

Members

Matt Boehmer
Gracy Perry
Ethan Weed
Brooke Fancy

Management and Engineering for Manufacturing

1st Place

Project Title

Machine Design for Faster O-Ring Installation to Meet Current and Expanding Retailer Demand

Members

Jared Augeri

Angela Zhao

William Daddario

Sponsor

i2Systems – O-Ring

2nd Place

Project Title

Engineering a Solution to Improve Ergonomic Conditions Within the Prysmian Facility

Members

Olivia Ernst

Alexa Boden

Jonathan Varga

Sponsor

Prysmian

3rd Place

Project Title

Roofing Plate Marking Tool

Members

Andrew Kane

Yihao Shen

John Dion

Sponsor

OMG

Materials Science and Engineering

1st Place (tie)

Team 9

Project Sponsor: NASA BIG IDEA

Project Title: Extracting Iron from Lunar Regolith

Team member names: Evron Foster, Jackson Kaszas & Priyamvada Kishore

Team 6

Project Sponsor: Barnes

Project Title: Research and Implementation for Real-Time Measurement of Plasma Spray Coating

Team member names: Samuel Katz, Noah Ossolinski & Milly Ullaha

2nd Place

Team 8

Project Sponsor: Pratt & Whitney

Project Title: Jet Engine Composite-Metal Interface

Team member names: Elliott Trester & Seth Utter

3rd Place

Team 2

Project Sponsor: Assa Abloy-Medeco

Project Title: Materials for a High-Security, Drill Resistant Lock Cylinder Redesign

Team member names: Jonathan Bane, Matthew Carragher & Charles Schwarz

Mechanical Engineering

1st Place

Team 25

Project Title

Design of Field Assembly Tooling

Members

Morgan Nace
Spencer Miller
Huanran Wang

Sponsor

HyAxiom

2nd Place

Project Title

Horizontal Test Rig Design

Members

Gabriel Millan Garcia
Juan Marin
Thatcher Schechtman

Sponsor

Pratt Whitney

3rd Place (tie)

Project Title

Heat Exchanger Bypass Duct Modeling

Members

Christopher Pedersen
Chris Ribeiro
Robert McCray

Sponsor

Pratt Whitney

3rd Place (tie)

Project Title

Mini tetherless autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)

Members

Ben Nowacki
Matthew O'Boyle

Sponsor

UCONN ME

Professors Award

Team 85

Sponsor

Acclerated Masters

Member(s)

Nathan Stenseng

Project Title

Vibrations in metamaterials

Systems Engineering

1^st Place

SE Team 05: Protecting A Helicopter Engine Operating in Desert Conditions, sponsored by Sikorsky

Hannah Montesi, Mechanical Engineering
Kassandra Gallego, Mechanical Engineering
Sean Seibert, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Reza Sheikh, Academic Advisor, Mechanical Engineering

1^st Place

SE Team 03: Integrated Systems Modeling of an Autonomous Vehicle, sponsored by Pratt & Whitney

Robert Avena, Mechanical Engineering
Eric Venables, Mechanical Engineering
John Henry Patrizzi, Computer Science
Skyler William Cobb, Computer Science
Dr. Bing Wang, Computer Science
Dr. Chengyu Cao, Academic Advisor, Mechanical Engineering