Each year, the Penn Engineering Alumni Society sponsors a Senior Design Project Competition for undergraduate engineering seniors at Penn Engineering. This competition assembles together the winning senior design project teams from each of Penn’s engineering majors. Each of these design teams presents their accomplishments to a panel of “real world” judges who collectively represent a diverse set of technology disciplines.

Having already received departmental accolades for technical achievement, this Senior Design Project Competition now challenges each team to succinctly articulate their design project’s objective, strategy and results to a diverse audience. As such, of chief importance in this competition is the ability to clearly communicate complex subject matter to those who are not experts in that subject matter.

2007 Senior Design Winners

First Prize:  

RAVI-Bot: Robotic Automated Vehicle for Improvisation Robot

Mike Dugan, Peter Brueckner, Kristin Condello, Will Jellife
Advisor: Vijay Kumar
(Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics)

Second Prize : 

Furfural and THF from Corn Cobs

Third Prize : 

Silver Nanoparticle Enhanced Antimicrobial PVC

Priyanka Agarwal, Alexander Mittal, Calvin Peng, Arjun Srinivas
Advisor: Russell J. Composto
(Material Science Engineeering)

First Honorable Mention:

Reading the Markets: Forecasting Prediction Markets by News Content Analysis

Ari Gilder and Kevin Lerman
Advisor: Fernando Pereira
(Computer and Information Science)

Second Honorable Mention:

Developing an Improved Assessment System for an Undergraduate Engineering Program

Neta Tenenhaus, Jason McGrath, Michelle Jacobson
Advisor: John D. Keenan
(Systems Engineering)

Third Honorable Mention:

JamTech

Noel Camacho, Beth Codos, Pamela Rist
Advisor: Daniel K. Bogen
(Bioengineering) 

2007 Senior Design Picture Gallery

Past Senior Design Competitions

2006 Senior Design Competition

2005 Senior Design Competition

2004 Senior Design Competition

2003 Senior Design Competition