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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2008 | Justin Carmichael | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "DC Glow-Discharge Plasma Gun" Advisor: Rafael Garcia |
2020 | Kate Olguin, Thomas Tawadros, Mikel Matticoli, Diana Kumykova | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | |
2023 | Madison Gass, Grace Jolin, Isabel Nearing, Kathryn Woodland | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Detecting Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Red Blood Cell Samples" |
2009 | Jeremy Chapman, Nathaniel Law | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Mechanical Autonomous Jellyfish" Advisor: Michael Demetriou |
2007 | Samuel Feller, Nathan Malatesta, Nicholas McMahon | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | Advisor: Kenneth Stafford |
2021 | Kweku Sam Colecraft | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | |
2023 | Alex Friedman | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | "A Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Design" |
2009 | Aaron Holroyd, Punsak Koakiettaveechai, Brett Ponsler | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "Hand-Eye Coordination in a Humanoid Robot" Advisor: Brad Miller, Charles Rich |
2018 | Colby Johnson | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Design and Synthesis of Zika Virus Protease Inhibitors." |
2021 | Yvonne Niebuhr | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | Improving Oral Contraceptives: Encouraging Research into Oral Contraceptives and Their Side Effects |
2015 | Yan Zhang | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | |
2008 | Jared Buhler, Troy Coverstone, Nicholas Cummings, Siobhan Fleming, Thomas Huleatt, Theodore McDonald, Patrick Renaud, Megan Yocom | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "W.A.R.R.I.O.R.S. III – WPI AIAA Research Rocket" Advisor: John Blandino |
2019 | Hammad Sadiq | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Transcriptional Regulation of Non-coding RNAs by Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Protein." |
2022 | Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | “Lead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems Advisor: Jeanine Dudley |
2022 | Adraesteia Wong | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | “Never Set in Stone: The Creative Process in Transformative Fiction” Advisor: Kate McIntyre |
2016 | Amanda Adkins, William Barnard, Matthew Beardsley, Charles Frick, Samantha Swartz | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Wearable Action Guidance System" Advisors: Michael Gennert, Fred Looft, Hugh Lauer |
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2008 | Belin Beyoglu, Martin Ivanonv | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | "Technical Analysis of CAN SLIM Stocks" Advisor: Michael Radzicki |
2020 | Olivia Gulezian, Evan LeBeau, Ken Snoddy, Ilana Zeldin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Developing Patient-Centered Mobile Application for Understanding Fatigue in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) |
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2023 | Alana Miska | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Development of Module for Fire Dynamics" |
2009 | Daniel Asselin, David Beavers, Stephan Jakubowski | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Investigation of Plasma Charging Effects" Advisor: John Blandino |
2007 | Colin DeGraf, Keeley Stevens | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Lateral Force Calibration for Probe Microscopy" Advisor: Nancy Burnham |
2021 | Jocelyn Mendes | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
2023 | Samantha Brown, Alyssa Magaha | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Creating a Multi-Robot, Multi-Human, Multi-Platform System" |
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2009 | Christopher M. Drouin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "The Mindful Reader: Learning- Augmented News Aggregation" Advisor: David C. Brown |
2018 | Tristan Cano | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Copper Homeostasis is Important for Pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Caenorhabditis elegans." |
2021 | Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | |
2016 | Catherine Bonner, Jeremiah Campanelli | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | Pricing of XVA for Options in Discrete Time Advisors: Stephan Sturm, Gu Wang |
2008 | Christina Ernst | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Structure/Function Studies of kekkon5, a Putative Novel Component of the Cellular Adhesion Machinery" Advisor: Joseph Duffy |
2019 | Haylea Northcott, Amanda Moulaison | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology | "Pubmed AuthorMap: A study of Research Collaboration in the Life Science Fields." |
2019 | Julia Dunn, Lauren Guertin, Madison Michaud | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Design of a Wearable Sensor System for Prevention of Fatigue Induced Injuries in Baseball Pitching." |
2022 | Clarissa Casilla Luzardo, Hannah Gelman, Alejandro Gerov Armas, Abigail Perlee | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Industrial Engineering | “WPI Dining Services Delivery Plan” Advisor: Sara Saberi |
2016 | Jacqueline Ngo | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | "Durable Technologies for Producing Public Goods" Advisor: Alex Smith |
2007 | Rachel Berg, Matthew Clark | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Analysis of an Onboard Infrared Camera Assembly" Advisor: Nikos Gatsonis |
2020 | Petra Kumi | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | Anomaly Detection in Time Series Brain Data Generated by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy |
2023 | Abigail Berube | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | “Silanes Form Strong Bond to UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework Surfaces" Advisor: Ronald Grimm |
2009 | Shreelekha Mandal | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Functional Specificity of Lipid Elongases in Development" Advisor: Joseph Duffy |
2007 | Stephanie LeGare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | "Drawing Back the Curtains: Finding New Ways to Assess and Improve Tutoring Services in the Writing Center at WPI" Advisor: Lorraine Higgins |
2021 | Sarah E. Kwatinetz , Maggie A. Ostwald, Lily C. Spicer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
2023 | Colby Frechette, Iris Morin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | Monitoring Ocean Microplastics Through Citizen Science" |
2009 | Allison P. Smyth | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Drag-Aid MK, Race Car Crash Detection" Advisor: Stephen J. Bitar |
2018 | Siddhant Pandey | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "High Accuracy Electrodynamic Calculations using Hermite Finite Elements." |
2017 | Ethan Coeytaux, Cameron Crook, Alexandre Pauwels, Hugh Whelan | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | 5-Axis 3D Printing |
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2016 | Jared Kepron, Abigail Cervelloni, Ian Limon, Christian Zelaya | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | Design and Test of a Radio-Frequency Electrothermal Thruster Advisor: John Blandino |
2008 | Lisa Marie DiTroia, Heather Hassett, Justine Roberts | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Microthreads for Stem Cell Delivery in Cardiac Applications" Advisors: Glenn Gaudette, Marsha Rolle |
2008 | Denise Gleason, Kristoffer Jensen, Garima Painuly | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Proton Exchange Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Enhanced Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance" Advisor: Ravindra Datta |
2019 | Samuel Bacchiocchi, Daniela Baez, Michael Brooks, Nicholas Lewis, Miguel | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Process Improvement at Stacy's Pita Chips." |
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2022 | Charles Baldwin, Jasmine Duerk, Kaamil Lokhandwala, Dylan Valev | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | “Moonsighted” Advisors: Farley Chery, Gillian Smith |
2016 | Jonathan Leitschuh, Thomas Clark | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "GRIP: Graphically Represented Image Processing (Engine)" Advisors: Brad Miller, Michael Gennert |
2007 | Donna Davidson | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Inhibition of HIV—1 Tat—Induced Inflammation by the NF—kB Subunit RelB" Advisor: David Adams |
2020 | Chester Barber, Timothy Esworthy, Sydney Palmer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering |