Thirty-five teams of fourth-year Chemical Engineering students shared the results of their Capstone Design project with fellow classmates, faculty, family and friends at this year’s Capstone Design Symposium in Engineering 6 on March 11, 2019.
The Symposium was an exciting conclusion to the past two years they have spent researching and attempting to solve some of the challenges our world faces. Each team conceptualized and designed a solution to a problem of their choice.
Whether their project aimed to improve an industrial process, enhance healthcare options or protect the environment, among other things, their work provided hands-on opportunities to use the information and enhance the skills they had learned in classrooms and on co-op jobs over their undergraduate studies. It also reinforced the concepts of team work, project management, research and development.
Outstanding Achievement
The excitement of presenting their projects was multiplied by friendly competition for numerous awards available to Capstone Design teams from across the Faculty of Engineering and within the Department of Chemical Engineering. Thank you to the sponsors of these awards – and special congratulations to the award-winning teams for their Capstone Design achievements.
Baylis Medical Capstone Design Awards
This award, sponsored by Baylis Medical Company, is open to all Faculty of Engineering teams that undertake a project with a biomedical focus.
$2000 Prize Winner: Group 11, for Mechanical Model for Keratoconus Disease
Taniya Sebastiampillai, Moyosoluwa Akinbola, Uchenna Mbanefo and Shimona Esmail
$2000 Prize Winner: Group 12/IV SOS, for Development of an On-Demand IV Fluid Generation System
Min Kwak, Sabrina Mattiassi, and Kelly Zheng
Engineer of the Future Fund
The Engineer of the Future Fund supports student projects that have a positive impact on advancing the human condition through innovative engineering. Recipients can use the award money to fund the critical startup phase of their business.
Group 37, for Design of Molten Salt Energy Storage for Solar Cooker Applications
Shawn Stankevitsch, Jonathan Lepine, Nabil Chowdhury and Elaine Zhang
Group 17/OleoTech, for Recycled Polymer Technology for Removing Hydrocarbons from Runoff Water
Cassidy Molloy, Zeinab Sidahmed, Sinclair K. Hidajat, and Gene Shim (missing from photo: Timothy Yeung)
Department of Chemical Engineering Capstone Project Awards
The department provides three Best Poster awards for the teams that excelled at presenting their research at the Symposium. Judges looked for teams’ ability to present their research knowledgeably via a concise, visually pleasing and factually correct poster and an engaging and well-pitched verbal presentation.
$500 Prize Winner: Group 30, for Polypropylene Regrind Optimization
Glen Gong, Natalie Wong, Doyun Kim and Solgang Im
$250 Runner-Up Prize Winner: Group 35, for Pipeline Gas Leak Analysis for Methane Sensor Implementation
Tarundeep Bola, Andre Dacosta, Edric Lin and Gagandeep Phull
$250 Runner-Up Prize Winner: Group 8, for Synthetic Processing of Coffee Beans
Komal Bokhari, Amanda Soendoro, Eugenia Chan and Urjita Davada
General Motors Award
This General Motors-sponsored award recognizes the team that most effectively presented its research via their poster and the presentation that accompanied it, including the verbal description of the research and the answers provided in response to questions.
$500 Winner: Group 12/IV SOS, for Development of an On-Demand IV Fluid Generation System
Min Kwak, Sabrina Mattiassi and Kelly Zheng
ANSYS Design Analysis Competition
ANSYS AIM sponsors this competition among all Capstone teams within the Faculty of Engineering to encourage the effective application of appropriate engineering analyses in the execution of a design project.
$2500 First Place: Group 9, for Model Creation and Validation of a Pulp and Paper Oven Process with Convection and Heat Exchange
Lauren McDonald, Pat Duong, Rachel Malevich and Chelsea Vandermeer
$1000 Third Place: Group 14, for Process Design of Synthetic Fuel from Landfill Gas
Paul Kaija, Kiran Sahmbi, Vicky Nguyen, Jade Alexander and Vusal Ibrahimli
Dematic Capstone Award
Dematic offered three awards for teams within the Faculty of Engineering whose projects demonstrate innovation in the area of analytics, big data, machine learning and optimization.
$2500 First Place: Group 6, for The Optimization of an Automotive Manufacturer's Energy System Using Power-to-Gas Technology
Nicholas Preston, Alexandra McGowan and Jesse Hildebrand
Congratulations
Congratulations to everyone who presented their fourth year design projects at the Chemical Engineering Capstone Design Symposium. It was a brilliant culmination of many months of creative thin