Senior Design Winners

2023 Competition Winners

 

Judges’ Choice Award: Team StablEyes (ESE)
Ella Atsavapranee, Jake Becker, Ruoming Fan, Savan Patel
Mentor: Erin Anderson, Dr. Drew Scoles and Dr. Tomas Aleman (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Medicine)
Instructors: Erin Berlew, Sevile Mannickarottu, and David Meaney
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Technology & Innovation Award: Team BAMBI (BE)
Ria Dawar, Pallavi Jonnalagadda, Jessica Ling, Grace Qian
Mentor: Erin Anderson
Instructors: Erin Berlew, Sevile Mannickarottu, and David Meaney
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Social Impact Award: Team Eco2ncrete (CBE)
Emma Glasser, Kimerly Jackson, Leslie Lytle, Sahana Sundar, Yein Yoon
Mentor: Shu Yang
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Leadership Award: Team PopEye (BE)
Nicholas Anderson, Mario Ferre, Benjamin Abt (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics), Orestis Skoutellas (Computer and Information Science), Jacob Bendell (Electrical and Systems Engineering)
Mentor: Siddharth Deliwala
Instructors: Nicholas McGill-Gardner, Jan Van der Spiegel
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Winners of Past Competitions:

2022

2022 Competition Winners

Judges’ Choice Award: Team Pillbot (ESE)
Bryan Romanow, Christopher Lee, Srisa Changolkar
Mentor: Dr. James Won
Instructors: Sid Deliwala, Dr. Jan Van Der Spiegel
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Technology & Innovation Award: Team Modulo Prosthetics (BE)
Alisha Agarwal, Michelle Kwon, Gary Lin, Ian Ong, Zachary Spalding
Mentor: Dr. Michael Hast
Instructors: Sevile Mannickarottu, Dr. David Meaney, Dr. Michael Siedlik
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Social Impact Award: Team CO2+CH4 to Liquids Plasma (CBE)
Nathaniel Hess, Caitlyn McCloskey, Brandon Burghardt
Mentor: Dr. Aleksandra Vojvodic
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Leadership Award: Team ReiniSpec (BE)
Caitlin Frazee, Caroline Kavanagh, Ifeoluwa Popoola, Alexa Rybicki, Michelle White
Mentor: JeongInn Park
Instructors: Sevile Mannickarottu, Dr. David Meaney, Dr. Michael Siedlik
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2021

Judges’ Choice Award: Team Phaox (ESE)
Trevor Pennypacker, Josh Ren, Jack Flahive, Noah Tatman
Instructors: Sid Deliwala, Dr. Jan Van Der Spiegel
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Technology & Innovation Award: Team OtoAI (BE)
Krishna Suresh, Nikhil Maheshwari, Yash Lahoti, Jonathan Mairena, Uday Tripathi
Mentor: Dr. Steven Eliades
Instructors: Dr. David Meaney, Dr. Brian DiPaolo, Sevile Mannickarottu
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Social Impact Award: Team mRNA Vaccines (CBE)
Alison Simpkins, Sarabeth Hoffman, Irene Labarta
Mentor: Dr. Scott Diamond
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Leadership Award: Team PVRE (MEAM)
Nicholas Genovese, Andreana Izotov, Nelson Ngouenet, Paul Owens, Andres Voyer
Instructor: Dr. Graham Wabiszewski
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2019

First Prize: Project Kirigami ENV (MSE)
Grey DeSimone and Emily Spencer
Co-Advisors: Dr. Shu Yang and Dr. Vanessa Chan
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Second Prize: Project SharpShooter (MEAM)
Bennet Caraher, Paul Flores, Karina Gunadi, Miltos Kitsios, Matt Oslin, and Jake Welde
Co-Advisors: Dr. Bruce Kothmann and Dr. Graham Wabiszewski
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Third Prize: Project Bubble Stix (MSE)
Narelli de Paiva Narciso, Christina Nordrum, and Olivia Ruiz
Co-Advisors: Dr. Eric Detsi and Dr. Vanessa Chan
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Honorable Mention: TerraNova (MEAM)
Jonah Arnheim, Claire Brundage, Allie Grey, Dylan Hawkes, Gregory Robinov, and Raphael Van Hoffelen
Co-Advisors: Dr. Mark Yim and Dr. Graham Wabiszewski
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Honorable Mention: Aerate (MEAM)
Yann Pfitzer, Connor Sendel, Sam Weintraub, Ashwin Kishen, Spencer Collins, and Jake Fine
Co-Advisors: Dr. Paulo Arratia and Dr. Graham Wabiszewski
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Honorable Mention: Heartware (ESE)
Jonathan Chen, Jason Schwartz, Jared Winograd, and Matthew Wolfman
Co-Advisors: Dr. James Weimer, Sid Deliwala, and Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel
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2018

First Prize: Project LifeWatch (MEAM)
Daniel Orol, Spencer Fox, Ben Bernstein, Jake Snipes, Reed, Ginsberg, and Alex Garcia
Advised by Prof. Kevin Turner
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Second Prize: Omnigami (MSE)
Simeon Ristic
Advised by Prof. David Srolovitz
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Third Prize: Daedalus (MEAM)
Eugenia Bejar, Ros Shinkle, Pele Collins, Max Newberger, Michael Pearson, and Rome Arnold
Advised by Prof. Kevin Turner
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First Honorable Mention: Foot’s Ease (ESE)
Julia L Lin, Ece N Sahin, Cody Cluser, and Kelly Larkin
Advised by Profs. Ari Brooks and Sid Deliwala
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Second Honorable Mention: MEDISIGN (BE)
Kate Panzer, Jackie Valeri, Nick Stiansen, and Karol Szymula
Advised by Prof. Michael Rizk
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Third Honorable Mention: SeaSearcher (MEAM)
Eric Quesada, Jay Fleischer, Xavier Perraudin, Nikhil Chari, Alex Andalia, and Thomas Macchio
Advised by Prof. Mark Yim and Paulo Arraita
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2017

First Prize: Backster: Wearable and Visual Feedback of the Torso (MEAM)
Elyse Chase, Kevin Crossley, Sterling Graham, Nancy Fang, Marshall Pritt,
Alysha Singh
Advisor: Dr. Bruce Kothmann
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Second Prize: ShadowDrone (CIS)
David Freifelder, Kunal Malhotra
Advisor: Prof. Kostas Daniildis
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Third Prize: Frio: Personal Wearable Cooling (MEAM)
Ashely Berg, Nicolas Demes, Samuel Gaardsmoe, Daniel Harris. Drew Lilley,
Rachel Schwimmer
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First Honorable Mention: Brewer’s Spent Grain Bioprocessing (CBE)
Anthony Carradorini, Nabila Faour, Alex George, Kelsey Simet
Advisor: Prof. Diamond
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Second Honorable Mention: DARLINA (CIS)
Alex Liao, Nathaniel Chan
Advisor: Prof. Zachary Ives
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Third Honorable Mention: Volonomic (MEAM)
Patrick Boyle, Courtney Kobata, Cheryl Liu, Daniel Shanks, Aaron Weinstein
Advisor: Dean Vijay Kumar
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2016

First Prize: Autonomous Wave-Powered Desalination (Oceanus)
William Cheng, Sasha Klebnikov, Christina Springer, Chevonae Walcott
Advisor: Prof. Jennifer Lukes
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Second Prize: A Semi-autonomous Underwater Vehicle for SCUBA Divers (SCUBAssist)
Justin Chang, Foster Collins, Aedhan Loomis, Andrew McGrath, Mike Meigs
Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Fiene
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Third Prize: Holonomic Affordable Multi-Terrain Robot (HAMR)
Tighe Costa, Golam Kibria, John Kim, Christian Wang
Advisor: Prof. Mark Yim
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First Honorable Mention: Automated Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic (BE)
Moriah Cesaretti, Julia Chen, Pooja Khandekar, Kinjal Shah
Advisor: Dr. David Issadore
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Second Honorable Mention: Digital Breast Tomosynthesis with Superior Resolution (BE)
Fred Kwon, Joseph Licata, Tejas Narayan, David Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Maidment
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Third Honorable Mention: Asura (ESE)
Billy Clarke, Sarah Dean, Vincent Pacelli, Catherine Yee
Advisor: Yash Mulgaonkar
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2015

First Prize: Turbox
Manfred Reiche, John Doyle, John Whitman, Tommy Sutton
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
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Second Prize: Trio
Greg Caso, Davita Frankel-Bonacci, Clara Midgley, Rob Ritchie, Kevin Cruz
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
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Third Prize: APRo: Application Based Robot
Ayinde Alleyne, Alain Hernandez, Nicholas Labarber, Alfredo Muniz, Folasade Oba
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
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First Honorable Mention: Forcefield: A Cable-Driven Force Feedback Computer Mouse
Tyler Caron, David Baker, Colin Feo, Preston Morris
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
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Second Honorable Mention: Mobile Fluorescence Microscopy for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Connie Li, Matthew MacLean, Steven Huang, Renyao Wei, Max Wasserman
Department of Bioengineering
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Third Honorable Mention: FloPro: Fluorescence Imaging and Projection
Woo Yul Byun, Frederick Ding, Karthik Sethuraman, Sara Liebreich
Department of Bioengineering
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2014

First Prize: MicroFluFISH
Camilo Bermudez, Liz Feeney, David Gabrieli, Leah Suttner
Advisors: Arjun Raj, David Issadore
Department of Bioengineering
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Second Prize: Low-Cost Autonomous Landing of a Midsize Fixed-Wing UAV
Noam Eisen, Andrew Gagne, Richard Stutsman, Justin Yim
Advisor: Bruce Kothmann
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
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Third Prize: PulseTEAM: A Noninvasive Indicator of Cardiovascular Health
Carlie Badder, Vignesh Selvakumaran, Xinran Wang, Franklin Yang
Advisors: Susan Margulies, Ken Margulies, Julio Chirinos
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

First Honorable Mention: ReSnare
Elizabeth Boyle, Zachary Plona, Sharon Roth, Melissa Schwartz
Advisor: Jennifer Snow
Department of Bioengineering
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Second Honorable Mention: Assist3D
Oladayo Adewole, Lyle Brunhofer, Junyang Lu, Colin Millar
Advisor: Daniel Bogen
Department of Bioengineering
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Third Honorable Mention: 3D Electromechanical Print Integration
Tarik Bellamine, Jonathan Bryan, Kevin Burke, Joshua Reback, Amy Wu
Advisor: Andre DeHon
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
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2013

First Prize: Tactile Feedback for Monopolar Electrocautery in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Zach Shurden, Anna Brzezinski, Brian Horwich, Nicki Blumenfeld
Advisor: Katherine Kuchenbecker
Department of Bioengineering

Second Prize: Titan: A Powered Upper Body Exoskeleton
Elizabeth Beattie, Nicholas McGill, Nicholas Parrotta, Nikolay Vladimirov
Advisor: Jonathan Fiene
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Third Prize: H.E.R.A.L.D. (Hybrid Exploration Robot for Air and Land Deployment)
Lauren Davis, Michael Kofron, Stella Latscha, Gabrielle Merritt, Anthony Stroffolino
Advisor: Mark Yim
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

First Honorable Mention: inVigo™
Jason Gui, Drew Karabinos, Jonathan Kern, R. Blake Winston
Advisor: Katherine Kuchenbecker
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Second Honorable Mention: ROTOrouter
Albert Kwon, Perk Lim, Yuchen Pan, Kaiyu Zhang
Advisors: Andre DeHon and Boon Thau Loo
Departments of Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering

Third Honorable Mention: Highly Aligned Nanowires for Electronic Memory Device Applications
Karthik Kumar
Advisor: Ritesh Agarwal
Department of Material Science and Engineering

2012

First Prize: Pacemaker Verification System
Siriram Radhakrishman; Varun Sampath, Shilpa Sarode
Advisor: Rahul Mangharam
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Second Prize: PROTOS: A PR2 Open Tele-Operation System
Kevin Xu, Seth Shannin
Advisor: Camillo Jose Taylor
Department of Computer and Information Science

Third Prize: A Nanoplatform for Cancer Therapy and Imaging
Yaanik Desai, Casey McQuade, Timothy Sakhuja, Michael Vido
Advisor: Andrew Tsourkas
Department of Bioengineering

First Honorable Mention: Penn Route
Ruxin He, Yuanjiao Shen, Xiaoting Zheng, Ting Zhou
Advisor: Andrew Huemmler
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Second Honorable Mention: D1GIT: – Automated, Temperature Calibrated Measurement of Capillary Refill Time
Annett Bordoley, Rikki Irwin, Viraj Kalyani , Craig G. McDonald, Dorsey E. Standish
Advisor: Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Third Honorable Mention: Braille Teacher: Low-Cost Braille Teaching Device for First-Time Learners
Winslow Choe, Yinan Kuang, Christine Li, Frank Tan
Advisor: Sevile Mannickarottu
Department of Bioengineering

2011

First Prize: ALPHA – A Novel Bicycle
Evan Dvorak, Lucas Hartman, Geoffrey Johnson, Kathryn Rohacz, Katherine Savarise
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Fiene
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Second Prize: Detection of Pneumonia by Computer-Aided Auscultation
Rachel S. Egan, Ningcheng (Peter) Li, Jin Ser
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Watrous
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Third Prize: HydraVita – High-Speed Water Filtration System for Developing Countries
Tal Bar-Or, Gaurav Gupta, Juan Jacobus-Avila, Ishan Sehgal, Ritwik Lodhiya
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Jackson
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Honorable Mention: Flow of Nucleated Saline Droplets for Rapid Induction of Therapeutic Hypothermia
Andrew Barr, Eric Fischer, Zane Giffen, Andrew Hicks
Advisor: Dr. Lampe
Department of Bioengineering

Honorable Mention: High-Fidelity Mannequin Chest for CPR Training
Michael Boyle, Nihar Dharamsey, Simon Healey, Nihar Naik, Andrew Stanley
Advisor: Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Honorable Mention: R.A.V.E.N. – Remote Autonomous Vehicle Explorer Network
William H. Etter, Paul D. Martin
Advisor: Dr. Rahul Mangharam
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

2010

First Prize: Smart Alarms
Ana Giannareas, Vanessa Kern, Nicholas Stevens, Adrian Viesca Trevino
Advisors: Insup Lee and John Keenan
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Second Prize: Rocket Boys – Variable Valve Hybrid Rocket Motor
Thomas M. Castner, Todd R. Tewksbury, Daniel D. Yates-Berg
Advisor: Bruce D. Kothman
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Third Prize: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Andy Cao, Tanvi Goel
Advisor: Christopher B. Murray
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

First Honorable Mention: Sensor System for Improved Treatment of Plagiocephaly
Yuning Chien, Katherine Gerasimowicz, Kenneth Hwu, Clarence Quah
Advisors:Daniel Bogen and Calli Clark
Department of Bioengineering

Second Honorable Mention: Obese Patient Hospital Transport System
Anjay Kumar, Jeremy R. Lautman, Sudarshan Venu
Advisor: Jennifer E. Buck
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Third Honorable Mention: Viper
Joe Coyne, Ji Kim, Kevin Sin, Grace Ta
Advisor: Roch Guerin
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

2009

First Prize: IRIS: Vision Beyond Obstruction
Nick Annetta, Timothy McKenna, Anil Venkatesh and Neeraj Wahi
Advisors: Jan Van der Spiegel and Shih-Schon Lin
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
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Second Prize: AtLongLat
Steve Pike and Jeff Weinstein
Advisor: Zack Ives
Department of Computer and Information Science
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Third Prize: The PowerFlower
Nicholas Araujo, Alexander Greer, Jason Halpern, Derek Ondrusek, Matthew Sylvester and Thomas Macrina
Advisor: Jonathan Fiene
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Electrical and Systems Engineering
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First Honorable Mention: EESOM: Electrical Energy Sourcing Optimization Model
Jayson Bowlsby, Shana Hoffman, Nick Perkins and Michael Rovito
Advisors: Peter Scott, Walter Sobkiw and Dr. John Keenan
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Second Honorable Mention: Screener, A Shared Media Player
Dwayne Bent and Jateen Joshi
Advisor: Jonathan M. Smith
Department of Computer and Information Science

2008

First Prize: Radiosonde Recovery
Warren W. Jackson
Advisor: Mark Yim
(Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics)

Second Prize: Gnome Do
Douglas Colkitt and David Siegel
Advisor: Kostas Daniilidis
(Computer and Information Science)

Third Prize: Polarization Processing for Low Light Imaging
Anujit Shastri and Darren Wang
Advisors: Jan Van der Spiegel, Viktor Gruev, and Mr. Zheng Yan
(Electrical Engineering)

First Honorable Mention:  Novel Tissue engineered constructs for directed neuronal connectivity within the nervous system
Ankur Patel, William Okech and Kevin Hou
Advisor: Doug Smith
(Bioengineering)

Second Honorable Mention: Personal Memory Assistant
Scott Kyle, Erika Sanchez and Meredith Skolnick
Advisor: Ken Laker
(Electrical Engineering)

Third Honorable Mention: Automatic Guitar Tuner
Richard Prusak, Mike Kaplan and Abraham Dauhajre
Advisor: Siddarth Deliwala
(Electrical Engineering)

2007

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
Manuel Camacho, Teresa Chen, Myra Lujan
Advisor: Eric T. Boder
(Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Third Prize: Silver Nanoparticle Enhanced Antimicrobial PVC
Priyanka Agarwal, Alexander Mittal, Calvin Peng, Arjun Srinivas
Advisor: Russell J. Composto
(Materials Science and 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)

2006

First Prize: Intellicam: An Intelligent Visual Tracking System
Zhan Chen, Albert Ip, Kejia Wu
Advisors: Jan Van der Spiegel, Viktor Gruev
(Electrical Engineering)

Second Prize: Serulian
Chao Cai, Joseph Schorr
Advisor: E. Christopher Lewis
(Computer and Information Science)

Third Prize: Noninvasive Delivery of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Endothelial Precursor Cells to a Metal Stent
Richard Gaster, Manjool Shah
Advisor: Robert Levy
(Bioengineering)

Honorable Mentions:

Encoding/Decoding System for PAPPA Experiment
Angelos Stamatakis, Jose Gabriel Ramos, Sendil Palani, Vijay Narasiman
Advisor: Mark Devlin
(Electrical Engineering)

Pediatric Dynamometer
Dong Tran, Michelle Kam
Advisors:  Jay N. Zemel. Babette Zemel
(Electrical Engineering)

Using Encoding Systems for Robust P2P Transmission
Ben Dodson, Doug Petkanics
Advisors: Zach Ives, Sanjeev Khanna
(Computer and Information Science)

2005

Grand Prize:  Instrument for Pressure Ulcer Detection
Jialing Wang, Ashish Chauhan, and Kashif Merchant
Advisor: Dr. Jorge Santiago
(Electrical Engineering)

First Runner Up:  Double Vision Television
Nii Ayite Ayite, Zereyacob Girma, and Aung Naing
Advisors: Dr. Kostas Daniilidis and Dr. Nader Engheta
(Electrical Engineering)

Honorable Mention: Novel SWNT Growth Processes for the Creation of Nano-Devices: Using Substrate Topography to Control the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes
Matthew L. Scullin
Advisor: Dr. David Luzzi
(Materials Science and Engineering)

2004

Grand Prize: Sleep Apnea Detection System Using Neural Networks
Jeffrey Katrencik and Adam Mihalik
Advisor: Dr. Nabil Farhat
(Bioengineering/Electrical Engineering)

First Runner Up: Mouse Sleep Apnea Oximeter
Ramez Haddadin
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allan Pack
(Bioengineering)

Honorable Mentions:

Conversion and Redevelopment of the Central Solid Waste Management Center Landfill in Kent County, Delaware
Alison M. Capponi, Ashley K. Kim, Lora Menter
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Iraj Zandi
(Systems Engineering)

Silicon Wafers Through the Use of the Czochralski Growth Process
Sean Cusack, Eiji Takizawa, and Joyce Tam
Faculty Advisor: T. R. Sinno
(Materials Science/Chemical Engineering)

AquaNet – Low Power Water Analysis Network
Sameer Qudsi, Ramu Pratiwadi, Sandip Saha
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay N. Zemel
(Electrical Engineering)