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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| 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 |
| 2016 | Hongii Yu | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Dynamics of Atomtronic Battery" Advisors: Burt Tilley, Alex Zozulya |
| 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 | 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." |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Meghan Pasquali, Nicholas Pelletier, Jennifer Richards, Jonathan Shoemaker | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Development of a New System to Treat Hip Dislocation in Canines" Advisor: Glenn Gaudette |
| 2017 | Tyler Chaulk, Rodrigo Rivas, Ann Votta, Jacob Wennersten | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "Humanoid Stereoscopic Vision System." |
| 2021 | Connor Bruneau, Hunter Caouette, Rimsha Kayastha, Veronica Melican, Miranda Hernandez-Reisch | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Data Science | |
| 2009 | Tahsin Hassan, Vasil K. Savov, Alihusain Y. Sirohiwala | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "An Interactive Application Demo for the AD8295" Advisor: John McNeil |
| 2018 | Michael Giancola | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Permutation-Invariant Consensus over Crowdsourced Labels." |
| 2022 | Lexi Ferrini, Allison Lambert, Donovan Robilard | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | “Copula Modeling: “An Application to Workers' Compensation Claims” Advisors: Jon Abraham, Barry Posterro |
| 2016 | Allyson Smith, Yun Jae Sohn | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | "Building Energy Analysis of SGH Office in Waltham, Mass." Advisor: Steven Van Dessel |