Biomedical Engineering

1st place - Team 06

Project Title: Design and Characterization of a Light-Based Smart CSF Flow Monitoring Shunt

Team Members: Suriyanarayanan Singaravelu, Mohnish Peddi, Benjamin Wilkinson, Koshik Dhotre, Maria Tuxbury

Advisor: Kazunori Hoshino

Sponsor: BME department

2nd place - Team 7

Project Title: Rapid Airway Access: An Automated User-Friendly Device for Emergency Blockages

Team Members: Adeline Smith, Sarah Bradley, Riley Bernas, Alison Powell, Coleman Ross

Advisor: Patrick Kumavor

Sponsor: UConn CoE

3rd place - Team 16

Project Title: Design and Characterization of a Light-Based Smart CSF Flow Monitoring Shunt

Team Members: Suriyanarayanan Singaravelu, Mohnish Peddi, Benjamin Wilkinson, Koshik Dhotre, Maria Tuxbury

Advisor: Kazunori Hoshino

Sponsor: BME department

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

1 - Team 9

Project Title: Acceleration of Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Conditioning Process

Team Members: William Watson, Megan Begley, Julia Steiner, Ryan Downey

Advisor: Xiao-Dong Zhou

Sponsor: FuelCell Energy

2 - Team 5

Project Title: Synthesizing Catalyst Nanofibers for Hydrogen Electrolyzers

Team Members: Kinee Christian, Martina Jagielski, Mehr Chhatre

Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey McCutcheon

Sponsor: Nel Hydrogen

3 - Team 11

Project Title: Using Computational Modeling to Study Paclitaxel Diffusion from Hydrogel Disks into Lung Tissue

Team Members: Shantel Porter, Praise Udom, Alexis West

Advisor: Mu-Ping Nieh

Sponsor: Medtronic

Civil Engineering

1st place Team 2

Project Title: East Main Street Corridor Improvements

Team Members: Christo Jamo, Bianca Canales, Ava Grace, Daniel Camacho

Advisor: Dr. John Ivan

Sponsor: Jacobs

2nd place Team 15

Project Title: Court Street Pedestrian Bridge

Team Members: Jack Rilli, Jameson Fauth, Abhay Kohli, Matthew Harris

Advisor: Dr. Alexandra Hain

Sponsor: WSP

3rd place Team 4

Project Title: Rowayton Village Placemaking

Team Members: Eamon Manely, Samuel Cannizzo, Francis Kocsis, Yuhe Zou

Advisor: John Ivan

Sponsor: Town of Norwalk, CT

Computing, School of

1st place: Team 35

Project Title: Improving Healthiness in a Multi-Objective Personalized Health-Aware Food Recommendation System using Advantage Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning Networks

Team Members: Vishal Saminathan, Joshua Zolla, Daniel Bogues, Harshit Yadav, Aarya Vasantlal

Advisor: Chuxu Zhang

Sponsor: Chuxu Zhang

2nd place: Team 24

Project Title: SmaRt heaRt

Team Members: Imra Asif, Tony He, Isabella Morfin, Eric Wang

Advisor: Dong-Guk Shin

Sponsor: Dr. Sharad Jaitly

3rd place: Team 56

Project Title: MenuMatch

Team Members: Alex Manos, Yaohui Liu, Josef Karpinski, Himanshu Thakur

Advisor: Wei Wei

Sponsor: UConn Computer Science & Engineering Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

1st place - Team 22

Project Title: Scalable Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Variable Ballast System

Team Members: Nickolas Amter, Alessandro Ripari, Zackary Santiana

Advisor: Dr. Gupta

Sponsor: NUWC

2nd place - Team 7

Project Title: Avionics Chassis Design for Harsh Environment Survivability

Team Members: Rachel Saba, Morodoc Tan

Advisor: Liang Zhang

Sponsor: Draper Laboratory

3rd place - Team 1

Project Title: Wireless Telemetry for Formula SAE Race Cars

Team Members: Michael Kosiorek, Phoenix Cardwell, Mia Larkin

Advisor: Shengli Zhou

Sponsor: OWL Integrations

Environmental Engineering

1st place: Team 2

Project Title: Design and Hydraulic Analysis of Culverts in Beaver Brook

Team Members: Grace Mastalli-Lowther, Caroline Peak, Lisel Nee, Ben Piegat

Advisor: Marina Astitha

Sponsor: Town of Wethersfield, CT

2nd place: Team 6

Project Title: Improved Sludge Processing

Team Members: Malcolm Brown Morales, Alex Adamo, Joe Zeppieri, Zinnia Kling

Advisor: Baikun Li

Sponsor: Windham Water Works

3rd place: Team 2

Project Title: Stormwater Management Design for Affordable Housing Development

Team Members: Paul Beisler, Melanie Ramos, Jacob McCormick, Gabriel Scott

Advisor: Marina Astitha

Sponsor: CHA Consulting, Inc.

Management and Engineering for Manufacturing 

1st place: Team 9

Project Title: Development of a Dynamic Strand Tension System to Decrease Required Training Level of Operators and Increase Labor Effectiveness by 5 to 50 Percent

Team Members: Liam Kelly, Grant Weaver

Advisor: Craig Calvert, Rajiv Naik

Sponsor: Loos & Co. INC.

2nd place: Team 7

Project Title: Industrial Design of Fuel Cell Power Plants to Boost Aesthetic Appeal for Urban Development Markets to Grow Sales by a Specified Amount

Team Members: Anthony Prior, Mary Barker, Nicholas Bailey, Kaitlyn Nigborowicz

Advisor: Craig Calvert, Rajiv Naik

Sponsor: FuelCell Energy

3rd place: Team 8

Project Title: Design and Development of an Insulin Pen with 50% Size Reduction to Enhance Portability and Support Insulin Therapy for Teens and Young Adults

Team Members: Alex Ji, Juana Garcia, Aston Yip, Aaron Weston

Advisor: Professor Calvert, Professor Naik

Sponsor: Anna Radziwillowicz

Materials Science and Engineering

Judges & Department Winner: Team 8

Project Title: High-Temperature Materials for IVD Evaporation Boats

Team Members: Atharva Shrivastava, Thatcher Slocum, Reid Morrow

Advisor: Dr. Alexander Dupuy

Sponsor: Cametoid Technologies

Audience Choice: Team 7

Project Title: Assessing the Influence of Process Gas and Heat Treatment on Cold Sprayed Metals

Team Members: Samuel Crowley, Jackson Boulter, Wyeth Haddock

Advisor: Mark Aindow

Sponsor: VRC Metal Systems

Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, School of

Professors Award - Team 6

Project Title: Electric Powered Competition Boat

Team: Elizabeth Adams, Michael Barbera, Andrew Marsigliano, Thomas Cardinali,

Advisor: Chang Liu

Sponsor: ASNE

1st Place: Team 70

Project Title: Tunable Metamaterials for Controlling Waves Using Bubbles

Team Members: Junaid Shah

Advisor: Dr. Osama Bilal

Sponsor: Dr. Osama Bilal

2nd Place: Team 57

Team: Dylan Treacy, Henry Bissonnette, Brandon Campbell

Process to Create Improved Durability Beehive Frame

Advisor: Thomas Mealy

Sponsor: Union Bee Company

3rd Place: Team 2

Project Title: Rapid Airway Access: An automated user-friendly device for emergency blockages

Team Members: Alison Powell, Riley Bernas

Advisor: Dr. Martin Huber

Sponsor: Dr. Laura Staff

Multidisciplinary Engineering

1st place : Team 2

Project Title: Rapid Airway Access

Team Members: Coleman Ross

Advisor: Dr. Jorge Paricio Garcia

Sponsor: Dr. Laura Staff

2nd place: Team 6

Project Title: Redesign and Modernization of the RoscoVIEW

Team Members: Vin Gluck

Advisor: Jorge Paricio

Sponsor: Rosco Laboratories Inc.

3rd place: Team 6

Project Title: Motorized Roll Drop Design and Prototype

Team Members: Benjamin Schwink, Victoria Acuna, Lauren Pope

Advisor: Edward Weingart

Sponsor: Scottish Rite Valley of Hartford - Theater