Past MQP Winners
2012 MQP Competition Winners
First Place
Compact COMMNAV Antenna for Handset Application
Jeffrey Elloian
Advisors: Reinhold Ludwig, Sergey Makarov
Second Place
Software Defined Radar
Shahil Kantesaria, Nathan Olivarez
Advisor: Edward Clancy
Sponsor: MIT Lincoln Lab
Third Place
A 8x1 Wideband Antenna Array
Brennan Ashton, Branislav Jovanovic, Tayyar Rzayev
Advisor: Alexander Emanuel, Sergey Makarov
Honorable Mention
Rooftop Solar Panel MQP or Hall Effect Sensor Monitoring of Alternative Engery Sources
Anthony Ducimo, Kurt Snieckus, Nathaniel Verlee
Advisor: John McNeill
Sponsor: NECAMSID (Allegro Microsystems, Analog Devices)
Home Energy Automation Technology
Michael Audi, Scott Cloutier, John Manero
Advisor: William Michalson
Firefighter Indoor Navigation using Distributed SLAM
Nicholas Long, Matthew Zubiel
Advisor: James Duckworth, David Cyganski
2011 MQP Competition Winners
First Place
Design of an Autonomous Quadrotor UAV for Urban Search and Rescue
Robert D'Angelo, Robinson Levin
Advisors: David Cyganski, James Duckworth
Second Place
Solar-Powered Handheld Bioinstrumentation
Daniel Moyer, Tuan Vu
Advisor: John McNeill
Sponsor: NECAMSID
Third Place
Holographic Optical Beam Steering Demonstration
Gabriel Ayers, Michael Ciampa, Nicholas Vranos
Advisor: Edward Clancy
Sponsor: MIT Lincoln Laboratories
Honorable Mention
Building a High Performance Cluster through Computer Reuse
Christopher Clark
Advisor: Xinming Huang
Novel EOD Robot Design with a Dexterous Gripper and Intuitive Teleoperation
Matthew Carey, Eric Kurz, Joshua Matte, Timothy Perrault
Advisor: Taskin Padir
A Green Approach to a Multi-Protocol Wireless Communications Network
Travis Collins, Patrick DeSantis, David Vecchiarelli
Advisor: Alexander Wyglinski
Sponsor: University of Limerick
2010 MQP Competition Winners
First Place (Tie)
Hybrid Indoor Geolocation for Robotics Applications
Ramsey, Abouzahra, Cengiz Karakoyunlu, Yuan Shi, Billy Zhong
Advisor: Kaveh Pahlavan
Surface Electromyogram Simulator for Myoelectric Prosthesis Testing
Stephen Jung, John Meklenburg, Sean Patrick
Advisor: Edward Clancy
Sponsor: Liberating Technologies
Second Place
Wireless Digital Voltmeter
Omar Kiyani, Mairaj Malik
Advisor: John McNeill
Sponsor: NECAMSID
Third Place
Indoor Navigation System for Handheld Devices
Manh-Hung Le, Dimitris Saragas, Nathan Webb
Advisor: Alexander Wyglinski
Sponsor: University of Limerick Wireless Access Centre
Honorable Mention
General Purpose GPS Navigation Module
Nicholas Granata-Cappabianca
Advisor: Fred Looft
Electrostatic Discharge and Electromagnetic Interference Design and Testing of Power Plant Safety Control Cabinet
Jola Myrta
Advisor: Peder Pedersen
Sponsor: Westinghouse Electric
