<\/p>\n
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n After a year\u2019s worth of sleepless nights, highs-and-lows, and bated anticipation, 236 Senior Design groups proudly stood by their projects at one of the most anticipated School of Engineering events of the year\u2014Senior Design Demonstration Day.<\/p>\n With over 800 senior University of Connecticut School of Engineering undergraduate students participating, projects this year ranged from an autonomous firefighting drone, to a cloud-based smart storage system for a local aerospace manufacturer.<\/p>\n Each of the projects presented at the Demonstration Day, sponsored by more than 100 organizations, provide students with extensive hands-on experience, and an opportunity to work on real-world problems presented by sponsoring organizations. Sponsors invest time and resources, and work in-depth with their individual groups and consulting faculty members to create innovative solutions that are often integrated back into their organization.<\/p>\n The sponsoring organizations, which span the public and private sectors, include companies like Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, General Dynamics Electric Boat, Comcast ,and governmental organizations like the City of Hartford, the Town of Wethersfield, NASA and the Connecticut Department of Transportation. \u00a0<\/p>\n During the day, students present to faculty, staff, industry sponsors, and guests, with a team of judges on hand to determine the winners from every department. Below are the 2019 awardees from each department (faculty advisor in parentheses):<\/p>\n Biomedical Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong>\u00a0 Members: Krishna Dixit, Zoe Moscato, Quinn Shields (Dr. Kazunori Hoshino)<\/p>\n \u00a0Second Place<\/strong> Members: Kyle Bystrianyk, Samuel Ganem, Bennett Propp, Robert Silverman, Paige Woods (Dr. Ki Chon)<\/p>\n Third Place<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 27, \u201cDST Series EEA Stapler Staple Line Wound Protector\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Jeffrey Baroody, Kenneth Berkery, Eric D’Souza (Dr. Bin Feng)<\/p>\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 26, \u201cMultifactorial Clavicle Plate Design and Strength Analysis\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Sayan Basu, Danielle Caefer, Devin Finnerty (Dr. Krystyna Gielo-Perczak)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong> Members: Ugne Kirvelevicius, Kush Kumar, John Pettersen, Albert Tuli IV (Dr. Mu-Ping Nieh)<\/p>\n \nSecond Place<\/strong> Members: Howie Craig, Tori Danis, Alex Oliveira, John Yao (Dr. Brian Willis)<\/p>\n Third Place<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 15, \u201cReduction of Pt Loading in PEM Electrolyzers using RSDT\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Patrick Mascoli, Soha Nadeem, Andrea Naranjo Soledad (Dr. Radenka Maric)<\/p>\n \u00a0Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Team 14, \u201cOptimal Design of a Sustainable Intensified Food Production System\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0Members: Alberto Aguillon, Shaylin Cetegen, Alanna Gado (Dr. Matthew Stuber)<\/p>\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 11, \u201cModeling the Fluidization of Carbon Black for Post-Production Treatment\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0Members: Keith Loureiro, Jimi McLellan, Ian Puckette, Kamil Wielechowski (Dr. George Bollas)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 22 (Civil), \u201cNational Chromium Site Remediation\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Cameron Criniti, Caleb Erhard, Trenton Kowalec, Robin Rittgers (Dr. Nefeli Bompoti)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Team 4 (Environmental), \u201cQuantum Biopower FOG Treatment\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Donald Curtiss, Aaron Golab (Dr. Baikun Li)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Second Place<\/strong> Members: Cameron Criniti, Caleb Erhard, Trenton Kowalec, Robin Rittgers (Dr. Lanbo Liu)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Team 6 (Environmental), \u201cRemediation of an Oil Terminal Site\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Daniel Zeigher, Jennifer Mulqueen, Katie Katrichis (Dr. Amine Dahmani)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Third Place<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 5 (Civil), \u201cTraffic Sign Replacement Strategy and Intersection Design\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Daniel Terach, Gavin Metsack, Ben Jednak, Michael Pagano (Dr. Nicholas Lownes)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Team 3 (Environmental), \u201cNational Chromium Site Remediation\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Ian Adomeit, Tony Arreaga, Ginger Turner, Sikai Zheng (Dr. Nefeli Bompoti)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Computer Science and Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong> Members: Brandon Renick, Cameron Morris, Killian Greene, Jacob Boislard (Dr. Bing Wang)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second Place<\/strong> Members: Nathan Hom, Mike Marandino, Kyle Berry, and Jon Simonin (Dr. Song Han, Dr. Mousumi Roy)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Third Place<\/strong> Members: Mariem Ouni, Richie Viscardi, Fitch Spencer, and Zachary Galica (Dr. Yufeng Wu)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong> Members: Christian Corwel, Stevan Webb, George Zoghbi (Dr. Abhishek Dutta)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second Place<\/strong> Members: Ryan Heilemann, Kerry Jones, Joshua Steil (Dr. Ashwin Dani)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Third Place<\/strong> Members: Luke Boylan, Jack Davidson, Abhi Patni (Dr. John Chandy)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Team 1910, \u201cReal-time and Secure Wireless Systems based on Software Defined Radio\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0Members: Nicholas Cacace, Md Islam, Anam Qureshi (Dr. Shengli Zhou)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n Team 1918, \u201cAnalysis of Constrained Pockets in the Transmission System\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0Members: Benjamin Albano, Noah Gonzalez, Tara Stokes (Dr. Peng Zhang)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Management and Engineering for Manufacturing<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place (tie)<\/strong> Members: Kenneth Jordan, Victoria Marino, Zeen Zhang (Dr. Mousumi Roy)<\/p>\n \u00a0and<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \nTeam 6, \u201cWickAway Smart Automatic Candle Extinguisher\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Max Aronow, Justin Cooper, Ray Fagan (Dr. Liang Zhang)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Third Place (tie)<\/strong> Members: Suzana Amaral, Omkar Patil (Dr. Craig Calvert)<\/p>\n and<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Team 8, \u201cIoT for Predictive Maintenance\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Nathan Hom, Mike Marandino (Dr. Mousumi Roy and Dr. Song Han)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Materials Science and Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong> Members: Hetal Patel (Dr. Avinash Dongare)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second Place<\/strong> Members: Beril Tonyali, Avery Gray, Lara Huapaya Royas (Dr. Seok-Woo Lee)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Third Place (tie)<\/strong> Members: Iwona Wrobel, Jordan Gomes, Linghao Li (Dr. Stefan Schaffoener)<\/p>\n \u00a0and<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Team 4, \u201cSheet Metal Properties and their Effects on Deep Drawing\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Grace Quinlan, Steven Kha, Joao Carlos Barbosa (Dr. Lesley Frame)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n First Place<\/strong> Members: Luke Nichols, Ben Swartzell, Vincent Zhang (Dr. Chenyu Cao)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Second Place<\/strong> Members: Bobby Bickley, Jonathon Jacobs, Matthew Kramer (Dr. Bryan Weber)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Third Place (tie)<\/strong> Members: Eli Gates, Leah Morasutti, Michelle Reinert, Zeke Pare (Dr. Vito Moreno)<\/p>\n and<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Team 62, \u201cAlternative Cable Fatigue Testing Machine\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Ted Blake, Steve LoPresti, Guillermo Mercado (Dr. David M. Pierce)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Professor\u2019s Award (tie)<\/strong> Members: Connor McNaboe, Andrew Yin (Dr. Georgios Matheou)<\/p>\n and<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Team 57, \u201cSurface Finish Impact on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop for Additively Manufactured Fins\u201d<\/p>\n Members: Katrina Awad, Vincent Chen, Justin Longton (Dr. Chih-Jen Sung)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information on the Senior Design Program, please visit our website: https:\/\/seniordesign.engr.uconn.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two hundred and thirty-six groups, consisting of over 800 seniors, stood proudly by projects ranging from an autonomous firefighting drone to a cloud-based smart storage system for a local aerospace manufacturer. The capstone projects, which were the culmination of a year\u2019s-worth of work, are known as Senior Design, and are presented annually at Senior Design Demonstration Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":218425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[2509],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr","tag-special-edition-senior-design-newsletter"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 22:20:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218428,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203910\/revisions\/218428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/218425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203910"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTeam 6, \u201cMechanical Assay for the Evaluation of Breast Cancer Pharmaceuticals\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 4, \u201cIntravascular Hemorrhage Control Device for Trauma to the lliac Arteries\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 19, \u201cTumor on a Chip\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 18, \u201cSpatial Atomic Layer Deposition Fluid Modeling for Thermal Glass Applications\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 10 (Civil), \u201cFenton River Embankment Improvement\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 26, \u201cSecure Embedded Architecture for the 1042 Processer\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 37, \u201cPredictive Maintenance through Digitalization of Manufacturing Indictors\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 3, \u201cSynchrony Financial Voice Experience\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 1915, \u201cElectromagnetic Expulsion of a Cylindrical Body from an Outer Tube\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 1901, \u201cAutonomous Firefighting Helicopter\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 1914, \u201cImplantable Glucose Sensor Communication System\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 2, \u201cLogistics VNA Material Movement Analysis\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 7, \u201cCost and Risk Analysis for Nano-coating Process of PEM Electrolyzers\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 13, \u201cDesign of a Machine Learning Algorithm to Design\/Discover Layered Materials for Battery Applications\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 9, \u201cPost-Processing Heat Treatments of Additively Manufactures Aluminum Alloy, AlSi10Mg\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 12, \u201cCompression Molding of Carbon Block Filters\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 19, \u201cDesign of a Proportional Flow Valve\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 46, \u201cAutomated Positioning System to Take High Precision Measurements on a Radio Frequency Filter\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 60, \u201cDesign, Development and Fabrication of a Right Sized Flat Pattern Laser Cutter\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTeam 3, \u201cAnalysis and Optimization of a High-Speed Catamaran Airboat\u201d<\/p>\n