Biomedical Engineering

1st place

Project Title: “Joint-On-A-Chip Osteoarthritis Disease Modeling for Evaluating Anti-Inflammatory Drug Performance,”

Team Members: Charlotte Chen (MSE), Sanjana Nistala, Jenna Salvatore, and Allison Determan.

Advisor: Syam Nukavarapu.

Sponsor: UConn Biomedical Engineering Department.

2nd place

Singular Part 3D-Printed External Prosthetics for Mastectomy Patients Without Reconstruction,” by Yukti Ummaneni, Ashwini Patel, Mia Haynes, and Jamie Trinh.

Advisor: Liisa Kuhn.

Sponsor: Beekley Lab for Biosymmetrix

3rd place (tie)

“Circuit and Sensor Design for Smartphone-Based Electroretinography,” by Rory Harris, Rodrigo Tuesta, and Yuexi Hao.

Advisor: Hugo Posada-Quintero.

Sponsor: UConn Biomedical Engineering Department.

3rd place (tie)

“In Vitro Model for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury” by Mark Cristino, Rudin Lloga, and Kaiya Pringle.

Advisor: Kazunori Hoshino.

Sponsor: UConn Biomedical Engineering Department.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

1st place:

“Spirit of Sobriety: Of Non-Alcoholic Brews,” by Cameron Hubbard, Kanisha Desai, Hailey Tam, and Ethan Krouskup.

Advisor: Jennifer Pascal.

Sponsor: UConn College of Engineering.

2nd place:

“Design And Optimization Of A Multi-Effect Desalination Unit Integrated With A Gas Turbine Plan,” by Wasif Zaman, Katelyn Honegger, Alanna Smith, and David Gan.

Advisor: Burcu Beykal.

Sponsor: UConn College of Engineering.

3rd place:

“Redefining How to Process Body Wash: Creating A More Efficient and Agile Supply Chain,” by Aadil Shahzad, Samantha Miel, Megan Shiring, and Matthew Silver.

Advisor: Anson Ma.

Sponsor: Unilever.

Civil Engineering

1st place:

“Blue Line Extension,” by Anson Lau, Yuanlong Dai, Helen Pruchniak, Nicholas Vestergaard.

Advisor: Wei Zhang.

Sponsor: Construction Industries of Massachusetts-Labor Relations Division (CIM-LRD).

2nd place:

“Proposed College of Engineering Building at The University of Connecticut,” by Joshua Maccione, Christian Maignan, Connor Behuniak, Ryan Baj, and Darren Lin.

Advisor: Shinae Jang.

Sponsor: Slam Collaborative.

3rd place (tie):

“Design Of Pedestrian Walkway For The Gold Star Memorial,” by Shaun McGuire, Kayla Turner, Steven Anderson, Juan Javier Mejia.

Advisor: Manish Roy.

Sponsor: HNTB Corporation.

3rd place. (tie):

“Worcester Union Station Center Island Platform Project,” by Conor Murphy, Harley Jeanty, Jakub Patrosz, Benjamin Ragozzine.

Advisor: Wei Zhang.

Sponsor: HDR, Inc.

Computing, School of

1st place:

“Solubility Data Management,” by John Bogacz, Connor Brush, Maniza Shaikh, Jianhua Zhu, Walson Li, and Peter Filip.

Advisor: Qian Yang.

Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim.

2nd place:

“Light Scattering Automation,” by Zachary Hall, Nikolas Anagnostou, Alden Dus, Jacob Montanez, Avaneesh Sathish, Zakarya Zahhal, and Nikolas Kallicharan.

Advisor: Qian Yang.

Sponsor: UConn School of Computing.

3rd place

“Responsive Multimodal Care Coordinator (MCC) Development,” by Randy Yu, James Frederick, Betul Agirman, Cameron Ky, Quincy Miller, and Mir Zaman.

Advisor: Suining He.

Sponsor: University of Connecticut and Bastion.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

1st place:

“Robotic Perception Sensor Characterization Platform,” by Hritish Bhargava and Samuel Gresh.

Advisor: Shan Zuo.

Sponsor: Draper Laboratory​

2nd place:

“Air Force Research Laboratory Software Defined Radio (SDR) University Challenge: Physical Layer Network Slicing,” by Spencer Albano, Matthew Silverman, and Nicholas Wycoff

Advisor: Shengli Zhou.

Sponsor: UConn Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

3rd place:

“Automated Angle Table for AS5,” by Alexander ReCouper and Mitchell Bronson.

Advisor: Liang Zhang.

Sponsor: OEM Controls.

Environmental Engineering

1st place:

“Remedial Design of a PFAS Contaminated Site in Connecticut,” by Valentine Falsetta, Wilmalis Rodriguez, and Nicola Bacon.

Advisor: Alexander Agrios.

Sponsor: Amine Dahmani.

2nd place:

“Stormwater/Septic Design,” by Rory Cavicke, Kelsey DiCesare, and Alexander Brita.

Advisor: Alexander Agrios.

Sponsor: CHA Consulting, Inc.

3rd place:

“Stones Ranch Road Drainage Upgrades and Erosion Control,” by Grace Carravone, Amanda Jacobson, Sara Makula, and Jason Contreras.

Advisor: Manish Roy.

Sponsor: Connecticut National Guard.

Management and Engineering for Manufacturing 

1st place:

“Enhancing Smartfood Popcorn Line Efficiency to Reduce Downtime And Boost Production Performance,” by Anna Lidsky, Valeria Nieto, Isabelle Bunosso, and Lauren Hart.

Advisor: Craig Calvert.

Sponsor: PepsiCo Frito-Lay.

2nd place:

“Modernizing Raw Material Marking and Inventory System To Enhance Traceability,” by Nimai Browning, Quinn Reelitz, Steven Jaret, and Austin Muzzy.

Advisors: Craig Calvert and Rajiv Naik.

Sponsor: HORST Engineering.

3rd place:

“Reliability Testing and Design Risk Assessment to Enhance Product Quality and Business Sustainability,” by Alex Domingo, Madeline Corbett, Brett Pierce, and Alexander Pearl.

Advisor: Rajiv Naik.

Sponsor: Belimo Americas.

Materials Science and Engineering

1st place and Student Choice Award (tie):

“Joint-On-A-Chip Osteoarthritis Disease Modeling for Evaluating Anti-Inflammatory Drug Performance,” by Charlotte Chen, Sanjana Nistala, Jenna Salvatore, and Allison Determan.

Advisor: Fiona Leek.

Sponsor: UConn Biomedical Engineering Department.

2nd place and Student Choice Award (tie):

“Citric Acid Passivation Process Development,” by Kevin Li and Matthew Maramo.

Advisor: Alexander Dupuy.

Sponsor: ARKA.

3rd place:

“Bio-Based Material Commercial Door Components Footprint,” by Yuexuan Gu and Jaclyn Grace.

Advisor: Fiona Leek.

Sponsor: ASSA ABLOY.

Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, School of

Professors Award:

“Designing and Operating An Experimental Facility To Study Non-Premixed Flames Of Pre-Heated (And Pre-Vaporized) Reactants,” by Al-Yaman Zoghol and Tyler Dickey.

Advisor: Francesco Carbone.

Sponsor: UConn College of Engineering.

1^st place:

“Multifunctional Metamaterial to Attenuate Acoustic and Elastic Waves,” by Evan Kluge and Lindsey Japa.

Advisor: Osama Bilal.

Sponsor: ACC Masters.

2nd place (tie):

“Improved Performance of Magnetic Speed Sensor Analyzer,” by Kristen Angeli and Emily Root.

Advisor: Farhad Imani.

Sponsor: AI-Tek Instruments.

2nd place (tie):

“Belt Based Continuously Variable Automatic Transmission Prototype,” by Ajeeth Vellore, Luka Ligouri, Ethan Wicko, and Ryan Zwick.

Advisor: David Pierce.

Sponsor: Transcend Bicycle LLC.

3rd place:

“Design and Development of PV/Thermal System for Greenhouses,” by Christian Bjork, Alanna Barzola, Nicholas Trottier, Patrick Place and River Granniss.

Advisors: Wajid Chishty and Ravi Gorthala.

Sponsor: Sonalysts, Inc.

Systems Engineering

1st place (tie):

“Robotic Perception Sensor Characterization Platform,” by Isabella Fabrizi, Liam Mohan, Samuel Gresh, Aveline Mills, Gerardo Robles-Luna, and Hritish Bhargava.

Advisor: Osama Bilal.

Sponsor: Draper.

1st place (tie):

“Design and Development of PV/Thermal System for Greenhouses,” by Christian Bjork, Alanna Barzola, Nicholas Trottier, Patrick Place and River Granniss.

Advisors: Wajid Chishty and Ravi Gorthala.

Sponsor: Sonalysts, Inc.

Multidisciplinary Engineering

In addition to the Demo Day awards, six seniors were honored for being among UConn’s first multidisciplinary engineering majors: Edward Wilkinson, Matthew Koniecko, Sean Tan, Patricio Salomon-Mir, Josephine Luby, and Kelly Russell.

Distinguished Educator Engineering Award (nominated by students)

Jasna Jankovic, associate professor of materials science and engineering, and Manish Roy, assistant professor in residence of civil and environmental engineering.