Provost's MQP Awards
These awards offer recognition to those students who have completed outstanding Major Qualifying Projects (MQPs) as a demonstration of their competency in a chosen academic discipline. Each academic department conducts its own competition to select the winners. In 2016, nearly 50 students were recognized for their innovation and achievements in WPI’s project-based learning curriculum.
Browse Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Name | Awarded by | Type | Department | Details |
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| 2020 | Adam Collins, William Kopellas, David Simpson | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | Analyzing the Built Environment and Human Behavior through the Creation of an Immersive Space |
| 2023 | Sophia Togneri | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "Integrating Herbal Medicine into Modern Healthcare Systems: A Case Study on Artemisia annua in China, the US, and Kenya" |
| 2009 | Daniel W. Carney | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Singlet Oxygen Trapping Porphyrins" Advisor: Robert E. Connors |
| 2017 | Siro Fritzmann, Elizabeth Hansen, Amber Munderville, Michael Sullivan, Tyler Turchiarelli | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Projecting the Ultimate Loss of Catastrophic Events." |
| 2021 | Christian Adler, Raymond Dolan, Elizabeth Kirschner, Henry Stadolnik | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | |
| 2015 | Angelia Giannone | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2009 | Samantha G. McGill | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Manufacturing Engineering | "Market and Business Analysis of Microthreads" Advisors: Helen Vassallo, George Pins |
| 2018 | Jordan Burklund, Hans Johnson, Travis Norris, Liam Shanahan | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "SailBot 2017-18." |
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| 2022 | Hannah Borges, Alexis Nichols, Shreya Puttagunta, Meghan Slaney, Chris Son | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | “Feeding Device for Premature Infants in Low Middle-Income Countries” Advisors: Solomon Mensah, Dirk Albrecht |
| 2016 | Zachary Harmony, Erin Murphy, Jillian Proulx, Jeremy Soderholm | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering |
Advisors: Leonard Albano, Leffi Cewe-Molloy, Kenneth Elovitz |
| 2008 | Jorge Alejandro, Muzhtaba Islam, Thomas Niemczycki | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Automation of a Telescope Imaging System" Advisor: John Orr |
| 2020 | Rosa R. Reynoso, Van W. Harting, Isabel M. Azevedo, Madison E. Cunniff, Rediet Merra Tegegne | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering, Social Science & Policy Studies | |
| 2022 | Benjamin Draper | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | “Stair Capable Robotic Vacuum” Advisors: Siavash Farzan, Jing Xiao |
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| 2015 | Michael Derryberry, Jermiah McCarthy | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection" Advisor: Xinming Huang |
| 2007 | Brian Foley, Sean Hallinan, Hans Jensen | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Non—Invasive Metal Detection" Advisors: Stephen Bitar, Reinhold Ludwig, Sergey Makarov |
| 2021 | Sophie Balkind, Matthew Barrett, Matthew Karns, Brendan Marion, Mark Payne, David Robie, Adam Sochacki, Krystina Waters | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | |
| 2023 | Brianna Ankstitus, Martin Carrau, Malyssa Deranian, Heather McGlauflin, Cherylle Eliza Sabilla | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Industrial Engineering | "Manufacturing Process Standardization at Affordable Interior Systems" |
| 2009 | Jessie A. Brasefield, Douglas K. Tischer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Exploring Apoptin's Anti-Cancer Ability: Uncoupling Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling and Multimerization" |
| 2017 | Jeffrey Letourneau | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "The Role of C. albicans Secreted Aspartyl Proteases (SAPS) in Phagocyte Recognition via Pathogen." |
| 2021 | Kevin Stern | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | |
| 2015 | Christopher Hango | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "The Five Stages of Grief: A Composition and Performance for Brass Ensemble" Advisor: Douglas Weeks |
| 2009 | Matthew Dailey, Ilan Shomorony | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Physically Unclonable Functions" Advisors: William Martin, Berk Sunar |
| 2019 | Michael Cooke, Thomas Kouttron | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "Recreating Steam Power at WPI." |
| 2022 | Michael Berwanger | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | “Photoredox Catalyzed C-H Acetoxylation Through Formal Hydride Abstraction” Advisors: Stephen Kmiotek, Patricia Musacchio |
| 2016 | Karen Fitch, Kathryn Gillis, Abby Harrison | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Digital Programmable Gaussian Noise Generator" Advisor: Edward Clancy |
| 2008 | Sanouri (Fernando) Ursprung | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "Battling Malaria: A History of International Health Aid" Advisors: William A.B. Addison, Peter Hansen |
| 2020 | Olivia Hunker | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Fabrication and Characterization of Asymmetric Phosphoinositide-containing Vesicles |
| 2023 | Michael Beskid, Ryan Brunelle, Calista Carrignan, Robert Devlin, Toshak Patel, Kofi Sarfo | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Design and Testing of an Amphibious AUV" |
| 2015 | Melissa Dery, Kyle Gerlack, Zachery Johnson, Maya Rhinehard | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | "Optimizing CoMag System Operations: Billerica, Mass., Wastewater Treatment Plant" Advisors: John Bergendahl, Jeanine Plummer |
| 2007 | Kevin Bobrowski, Christopher Korzeniowski, Francisco de Molina Cobo | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Search and Rescue Robot" Advisor: James Duckworth |
| 2021 | Gelila D. Hailemariam, Tina Ly, Tam T. Tuong | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | Immersive Space: Using Kinetic Architecture Design to Regulate Human Emotional States |
| 2023 | Lena Dias, Harmoni Larrabee, Mitchel Tanguay | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | Neurotype Café" |
| 2009 | Karen O'Sullivan, Phyllis Wall | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "The Effects of Warm Mix Asphalt Additives on Recycled Asphalt" Advisors: Rajib Mallick, Mindjiang Tao |
| 2017 | Camila Dias, Lin Jiang, Elizabeth Karpinski | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Improving Student Placement in IQP Centers via Preference Matching." |
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| 2021 | Brooke Dawson, Hannah Gallagher, Amelia Harvey, Lilly Nardelli, Aram Soultanian | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 2015 | Daniel Gendin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Mathematical Model of Laminate Materials" Advisor: Burt Tilley |
| 2009 | Marc Balboa, Ivo Dobrev, Ryan Fosset | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "MEMS for Real Time Imaging Applications" Advisor: Cosme Furlong-Vazquez |
| 2019 | Alexander Alvarez, Grace Gerhardt, Evan Kelly, John O’Neill, Jackson Whitehouse | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Design and Integration of a High-Powered Model Rocket - II." |
| 2022 | Stephanie Bishop, Peyton Graham, Isabelle Mellor | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | “Cross-Laminated Timber and Structural Resilience” Advisor: Leonard D. Albano |
| 2016 | Robert Antoine, Michael Bowen, Grace Howard | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | "Reducing Phosphorous Contamination in Stormwater Runoff" Advisors: Fred Hart, Suzanne LePage |
| 2008 | Dana R. Asplund, Kalun Fu, Yilmaz Kiymaz, Timothy Loughlin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | "The Alligator: A Video Game History of a Civil War Submarine" Advisor: Robert Lindeman |
| 2020 | Zachary Emil, Andrew Robbertz, Richard Valente, Cole Winsor | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | |
| 2023 | Stefanie Beaudry, Vanessa Bussiere, Sarah Johnson, Athina Theofilou | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Net Zero and Resilient Housing for Heat Waves" |
| 2015 | Andrew Beaupre, Tyle Collins, Aras Nehir Keskin, Cody Woodard-Wallace | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "Design and Production of a 3-D Printed Wireless Hexapod" Advisor: David Planchard |
| 2007 | John Bosch, Joseph Hsu, Erin Mazuera, Kelly Osberg | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Demographic Preferences in Web Design: Usability Testing Through Eye Tracking" Advisors: Soussan Djamasbi, Thomas Tullis |
| 2021 | Caroline Johnson | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2023 | Dante Coccagnia, Domenic DiCenso, Mary Suckow | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | The Business School | "Evaluating Quality, Environmental Impact, and Economic Sustainability in Support of Benchmarking Efforts at Twelve Guns Brewing" |
| 2009 | Jennifer Ann Himottu, Alyson J Stuer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Analysis of Bridge Connections: A Comparative Study of Bridge & Joint Design" Advisor: Leonardo Albano |
| 2017 | Nicholas Cyganski, Benjamin Gillette, Killian Henson, Keshuai Xu | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "The Autonomous Cargo Aircraft Project (ACAP)." |
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| 2021 | Catherine M. Hogan | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics |