2025 Winning Teams
Biomedical Engineering
1st place - Team 19
Project Title: Personalized Breast Self-Exam Virtual Reality Training Simulator
Team Members: Carrie Nguyen, Gabriella Bosh, Erin Blaszak, Abhishree Kaushik, Grace Bonacci
Advisor: Dr. Krystyna Gielo-Perczak
Sponsor: Medtronic
2nd place - Team 14
Advanced Ventriculoperitoneal shunt monitoring system for infection detection, cerebrospinal fluid analysis and pressure sensing
Team Members: Isabella Rojas, Evelyn Allen, Kelaan Mantoura, Sanaa' Peavy
Advisor: Dr. Kazunori Hoshino
Sponsor: University of Connecticut
3rd place - Team 8
Body Posture Monitor to Alleviate Musculoskeletal Injuries for Submariners
Team Members: Srushti Balagali, Lauren Yazel
Advisor: Patrick Kumavor
Sponsor: UConn Biomedical Engineering Department
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
1st place - Team 3
Team: Thanasi Dimopoulos, Camila Connolly, Sanjana Srinivas, Anthony Pacheco
Designing a Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Biomass through Thermochemical Process
Advisor: Dr. Ioulia Valla
Sponsor: UConn College of Engineering.
2nd place - Team 4
Team: Aislin Robb, Natalia Hume, Brandon Acervida, Nathan Lawler
Solid-State pH Sensor For Long-Term Marine Applications
Advisor: Yu Lei
Sponsor: University of Connecticut
3rd place - Team 8
Team: Saurav Khodra, Kesner Michel, Joshua Nhan, Nathaniel Rodney
Rational Design of Nanoparticles Based on A Thermodynamic Approach
Advisor: Dr. Mu-Ping Nieh
Sponsor: Unsponsored Student Team
Civil Engineering
1st place: Team 9
Team: Amina Redzovic, Caroline Insinna, Sophia Klaboe, Elizabeth Doyle
New single-story retail building
Advisor: Wei Zhang.
Sponsor: E2 Engineers
2nd place:
Team: Priscilla Sawyer, Ethan Peck, Kristin Daddi, Austin St. Cyr
Intersection Improvements at Route 6 and Route 61
Advisor: Nicolas Lownes
Non-UConn Advisor
Malissa Carvalho
Sponsor: Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)
3rd place: Team 11
Team: Quinn Havard, Alexander Foster, Matthew Barber, Lea Brinton
Beacon Falls Station High Platform Upgrade
Advisor: Wei Zhang
Non-UConn Advisor
Garrett Collins and John Bernick
Sponsor
HDR, Inc.
Computing, School of
1st place: Team 2
Team: Jennifer Fomenko, Shiv Patel, Evelyn Landau, Sophiya Singh, Daniel Kalvaitis
Benjamin Zheng
GUI Development for Machine Learning-Enabled Inverse Analysis of Scattering Experiments
Advisor: Dong-Guk Shin
Sponsor: UConn Computer Science & Engineering Department
2nd place: Team 16
Team: Maya Perdomo, Wilklein Millien, Oliver Plebanek, John Hudson, Gabe Koleszar
ParkUC - Tracking Parkinson's with personalized insight
Timothy Curry
Non-UConn Advisor
Jonathan Clark
Sponsor: Cigna
3rd place: Team 1
Team: Kaitlyn Ha, Oleh Stasyuk, Sage Pia, Isabella Fernandez, James Albanese, Yarid Tyran
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Time Series Analysis
Advisor: Dongjin Song
Sponsor: UConn College of Engineering
Honorable Mention: Team 31
Team: Adonis Canada, Sebastian Guevara, Tyler Bennett, Noor Sharaf, Gabriel Jackson
Gas Monitors Calibration Chamber 2.0
Advisor: Song Han
Non-UConn Advisor
Asif Amin
Sponsor
Belimo Americas
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1st place - Team 13
Team: Xingyu Qiu, Joshua Colon, Thomas Clark
Electric Powered Boat
Advisor: Ashwin Dani
Sponsor: ASNE
2nd place - Team 14
Team: Neo Joseph, Kevin Loja, James Weber
Development of User-Enabled Flight Controls for Energy Efficient Aircraft Operation
Advisor: Dr. Shalabh Gupta
Sponsor: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
3rd place:
Team: Witold Klos, Erin Mitchell
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System
Advisor: Yishu Bai
Sponsor: Biorasis
Environmental Engineering
1st place: Team 5
Team: Jeffrey Valentine, Julia Horlitz, Ethan Esposito
Optimizing Nitrogen Removal at the York Wastewater Treatment Facility
Advisor: Alexander Agrios
Sponsor: Arcadis
2nd place: Team 6
Team: Julia Braithwaite, Lily Johnson, Suki Zheng, Cody Voorhies
Optimization of Water Quality in Drinking Water Distribution System
Advisor: Alexander Agrios.
Non-UConn Advisor
Elizabeth Doerfler, Jacob Ducharme, Mariusz Jedrychowski
Sponsor
Wright-Pierce
3rd place: Team 4
Team: Grace Shvodian, Kateryna Pekar
Synthetic Alternative to ASTM C-33 Sand
Advisor: Amvrossios Bagtzoglou
Sponsor
Eljen
Management and Engineering for Manufacturing
1st place: Team 6
Team: Jake Fones, Sara Rhodes, Connor Anthony
Design and Implementation of a Raw Material Management System to Decrease Station Downtime by 50%
Advisors: Rajiv Naik, Craig Calvert
Sponsor: Jaypro Sports
2nd place: Team 4
Team: Drew Belcourt, Hunter Wolcott, Evan Stern
Wire Tensions Sensing System to Reduce Strander Downtime and Maintenance Costs by $500,000 Annually
Advisors: Craig Calvert and Rajiv Naik.
Sponsor: Central Wire Industries
3rd place: Team 1
Team: Alvin Joseph, Luis Raya-Hernandez
Development & Prototyping of Cost-Effective Butterfly Valve Design for Enhanced Reliability
Advisor: Rajiv Naik.
Sponsor: Belimo Americas.
Materials Science and Engineering
1st place: Team 3
Team: Justin Coe, Victoria Bradford
Ductility Dip Cracking in Welded 70/30 CuNi
Advisor: Dr. Lesley Frame
Sponsor: General Dynamics Electric Boat
2nd place: Team 6
Team: Wesley Roser, Benjamin Gwinnell, Michael D'Andrea
Cast Iron Microstructure Optimization for Wear Resistance
Advisor: Dr. Lesley Frame
Non-UConn Advisor
Graham Clark
Sponsor: Otis Elevator Company
3rd place: Team 7
Team: Morgan Xu, Isabel Sterett
Medical Gel Formulation
Advisor: Fiona Leek
Sponsor: UConn College of Engineering
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, School of
Professors Award - Tie
Team 59
Team: Alex Hemchand, Nicholas Meister
Turbulent Combustion and Radiative Heat Transfer within Gas Turbine Combustors
Advisor: Xinyu Zhao
Sponsor: UConn, Dr. Zhao
Team 55
Team: Caitlin Judge
Wave Control Through Active Metamaterials
Advisor: Osama Bilal
Sponsor: We-Xite Laboratory
1st place - Tie
Team 27
Team: Tarun Nori, Riley Chamberlin, Katelyn Cislo, Owen Lotito, Tomas Verardi
Hands-Free Resistance Welder
Advisor: Nejat Olgac
Sponsor: Pursuit Aerospace
Team 28
Team: Sam Walikonis, Andrew Lombardi, Josh Roy, Brendan Power
Right-sized Material Slitter
Advisor: Nejat Olgac
Non-UConn Advisor
Allen Roy
Sponsor: Pursuit Aerospace
3rd Place: Team 24
Team: Benjamin Rosen, Jordan Hunter, Catherine Nguyen, Jason Cressotti
Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Internal Impeller Propulsion
Advisor: Dr. Alexei Poludnenko
Sponsor: NUWC
