On March 20th and 24th, the MME's 4th-year Capstone Design Symposium events were once again a phenomenal success, illustrating the continuous strides of talent and creativeness within our community. Senior teams gathered to showcase their groundbreaking projects, fiercely competing for a range of prestigious awards encompassing categories such as best product design, web design, prototype, innovation, presentation quality, and much more.
Congratulations to all the winners, and a massive thank you to everyone who participated in contributing to the innovation and success of this year's event!
Mechanical Engineering Winners
Best Student Design Team Award$250 Award |
Winner
Team 16 - Coil-WRaptor
Project: Develop a rehabilitation device for people living with spinal cord injury or other lower body mobility disabilities.
Members: Nicholas Gisone, Jessica Hall, Sean Kodric, Michael Orszula, Saad Rizwan
Best Research Award$250 Award |
Winner
Team 33 - HEXA-Force
Project: Six-axis mechanical loading platform that is aiming to revolutionize 3D imaging of biomaterials.
Members: Evan Bernat, Jacob Chartrand, Jared Elliott, Christopher Gosk, Malcolm Park
Judges Best Poster Award$500 Award |
Winner
Team 41 - Sous-Bot
Project: Creates a more autonomous food preparation experience for those without the time or ability to prepare meals.
Members: Michael Fernandes, Andrew Moniz, Trystan-James Semmens, Mingxuan Xu, Joseph Younger
HJ Kwon Best Practical Design$300 Award |
Winners
Team 8 - miniWEC
Project: clearShear uses intelligent imaging and sensor data to capture real-time material strain measurements.
Members: Muhammad Abdullah, Caitlin Ho, Alexander Rejep, Nathan Shen, Ronald Trang
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Sustainability Award$500 Award |
Winner
Team 4 - UWOMBAT
Project: A ballast-driven buoyancy/trim engine for an autonomous underwater mining vehicle.
Members: Robert Bahensky, Morgan Judiesch, Anoush Rasouli, Chris Sankey, Yusuf Shariff
Baleshta Special Merit Award$250 Award |
Winner
Team 42 - Cookie Dough Dynamo
Project: Helping The Crumby Cookie Dough Company streamline their cookie dough production process
Members: Afam Akaraiwe, Mustafa Al-Rawi, Jakub Borsuk, Paul Gobui, Nijaan Navaranjan
Dyson Most Innovative Award$500 Award |
Winner
Team 38 - Presso
Project: A coffee machine that lets you extract the perfect espresso shot, every time
Members: Austin Huang, Anna Wei, Henry Wu, Michael Zhang
ANSYS Design Analysis Competition$500 Award |
3rd Place Winner (Tie)
Team 29 - Thin Sheet Material Transfer
Project: Develop a brand new aerodynamic package including component designs (front wing, nose cone, and undertray), and new processes for simulation, manufacturing, and testing of the aerodynamic package.
Members: Griffin Batt, Jason Hardy, Nicholas Hewko, Karan Tayl
Lambert Best Prototype Award$1000 Award |
Winner
Team 22 - Packer-Pro
Project: A seed handling that allows the agricultural industry to have an automated solution for the tedius task of manually measuring and packaging seeds for retail sale.
Members: Kwaku Richter, Justin Siriska, Tyson Wagler
Best Overall Project$1500 Award |
Winner
Team 6 - A.L.I.S
Project: A robot that drives into a pipe and shields welds using a rotating arm that follows the weld as it dispenses argon gas from the interior of the pipe
Members: Ali Chaudhry, Asher Lai, Clara Tsai, Miranda Zhang
Mechatronics Engineering Winners
Alumni Award on Future Impact$500 Award |
Winner
Team 12 - Alpha
Project: Creating the next generation of medical robots that are designed to treat patients with lymphedema.
Members: Cole Fehr, Sousheiant Khasheeipour, Jacob Kowalski, Ethan Lee, Cameron Sjaarda
MarketDev Most Marketable Award$250 Award |
Winner
Team 8 - SmartSip
Project: IoT solution for chronic dehyration.
Members: Utkarsh Aiddasani, Borna Ansari, Alexa Davidan, Balen Seeton, Andrew Seo
Sustainability Award$500 Award |
Winner
Team 47 - Poll-e
Project: Alternative pollination for crops which depend or are supported by insect pollination
Members: Ameena Abudulaziz, Sarah Fingret, Elin Liu, Gabriel Luo, Reuben Walker
Best Research Award$250 Award |
Winner
Team 52 - Disc Launching Robot
Project: A revolutionary device for disc golf that can launch discs at a distance of 300 to 500 feet.
Members: Simon Benninger, Colin Chatfield, Younghwan Kim, Odianosen Okojie, Ravpreet Singh Sethi.
Best Student Design Team Award$250 Award |
Winner
Team 21 - FET-natics
Project: Designed a high efficiency EV traction inverter (motor controller)
Members: Owen Brake, Amjad Halis, LEah McClure, Tarj Tandel
ASME Judges Best Presentation Award$500 Award |
Winner
Team 59 - SpinStop
Project: Increase the safety and efficiency of helicopter rescue operations by stopping the uncontrolled spin of hoisted pay loads
Members: Cooper Cole, Jerry Lu, Samuel Roberge-Arnott, Phillip Shahviri
Dyson Most Innovative Award$500 Award |
Winner
Team 15 - Elderly-Friendly Smart Cart
Project: An assistive grocery companion tailored for seniors.
Members: Cooper Brunke, Gillian Kraus, Faiqa Shahidi, Chamath Wijeskera, Renee Yu
Design Analysis Competition$2000 Award |
Winner
Team 33 - OSCAR
Project: An autonomous unmanned surface marine robot that navigates to a drowning victim and provides ergonomic floatation before bodily harm occurs
Members: John-Paolo Casasanta, Gordon Fountain, Megan Gooch, Shahed Saleh, Maximo Vander Raadt
Baylis Best Prototype$1000 Award |
Winner
Team 51 - Hawaii Robotics
Project: A custom robotic system for bimanial manipulation, prioritizing flexibility and adaptability in manufacturing elements.
Members: Omar AbuAbah, Ethan Childerhose, Clayton Haight, Jessie Ramseyer
Best Overall Project$1500 Award |
Winner
Team 33 - OSCAR
Project: An autonomous unmanned surface marine robot that navigates to a drowning victim in open water and provides floatation before bodily harm occurs,
Members: John-Paolo Casasanta, Gordon Fountain, Megan Gooch, Shahed Saleh, Maximo Vander Raadt