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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| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 2023 | Melanie Castillo, Jacob Gassenheimer, Michael Maffeo, Kristen Stilin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "A Structural Redesign of Terminal E at Logan Airport" |
| 2009 | Nicholas Alden, Zachary Humerick, Andrew Teixeira | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Molten Salt Gasification of Biomass" Advisors: Ravindra Datta, James Dittami |
| 2017 | Dong Hyun Ko, Steven Laudage, Matthew Murphy, Daniel Pelgrift, Samuel Young | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Design and Analysis of the Sphinx-NG CubeSat (III)." |
| 2021 | James Dooney, Stephen Nerkowski, Noah Roberts | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| 2009 | Jonathan E. Hayden, Hiroshi Mita, Jason R. Ogasian | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Autonomous Mapping Robot" Advisors: R. James Duckworth, David Cyganski |
| 2018 | Hannah Kraus, Thomas Leonard, Hary Teklegiorgis, Sarah Wutka | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Workers’ Compensation Tiering Model." |
| 2022 | Tyler Lizotte and Harrison Smith | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | “Design of a 6U Cubesat for an Ionospheric Mission” Advisor: Nikolaos A. Gatsonis |
| 2016 | Hailey Cambra | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Transcriptional Evidence of the Role of the ROotstock in Different Artemisia annua Chemotypes" Advisor: Pamela Weathers |
| 2008 | Catherine Casey, Katie Hudon, Elizabeth Stewart | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Design of a Multipollutant Sorbent for Coal Gasification" Advisors: Jennifer Wilcox, Erdem Sasmaz |
| 2019 | Noah Hillman, Nick Sorensen, Marik Travnikar, Steven Viola | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Oddisy Drone Dispatch System." |
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| 2022 | Christopher Guerrette, Natalie Mohn | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | The Business School | “Development of a Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning System for Gompei’s Goat Cheese” Advisors: Jim Ryan |
| 2015 | Dusty Cyr, Radu Morar, Joseph Sperry | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Helicopter Sling Load Stabilization with Active Control" Advisor: Raghvendra Cowlagi, David Olinger |
| 2007 | Charles Gammal (ME/ECE), Erika Hall, Rachelle Horwitz, Stephanie LeGare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "A Device for Monitoring the Severity of Peripheral Edema" Advisors: Kristen Billiar, Yitzhak Mendelson, John McNeill, Raymond Dunn |
| 2023 | Arthur Ames, Charlotte Clark, Evelyn Dube, Declan Murphy | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "Creating the Pwnable Claw Machine" |
| 2023 | Sirut Buasai, Jason Dykstra, Dillon McCarthy, Cindy Trac | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Data Science | Advancing Diffusion Models for Human Activity Recognition" |
| 2009 | Eric Connelly | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Imaging L-Alanine and Inosine-Induced Germination of Bacillus Anthracis Using Atomic Force Microscopy" Advisor: Terri Camesano |
| 2017 | Zhehao Zhu | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Tailored Synthesis of Bi2S3 Thin Film to Enhance Optoelectronic Performance". |
| 2021 | Kristophe Zephyrin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2009 | Nicholas Amendolare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Conserving Energy through Fuel Poverty Mapping in Worcester, Massachusetts" Advisor: Robert Krueger |
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| 2018 | Allyson Day | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Physician Bias in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and the Importance of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs." |
| 2022 | Darius Luo, Erin Venard, and Hannah Whitney | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | “WPI Campus Center Feasibility Study for LEED O+M Certification” Advisors: Leonard Albano, Soroush Farzin, and Shichao Liu. |
| 2016 | Max Fine Levine | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology |
Advisor: Luis Vidali |
| 2008 | Kevin Gagnon | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Synthesis of Multipyridyl Ligands for Multipoint Photodimerization" Advisor: Venkat Thalladi |
| 2020 | Nicolas Amato, Zachary Huaman, Alicea Hyland, Jacob Koslow, Jordan Pickunka, Jack Procaccini, Saiyab Ranjit, William Roe, Jarod Romankiw, David Santamaria, Jake Scarponi, Braden St. Jacques, Jake Tappen | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | |
| 2022 | Ben Gobler | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | “The Calkin-Wilf Tree; Extensions and Applications” Advisors: Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius |
| 2015 | Jennifer Garbarino, Sarah Kaptur | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Biochemical and Myosin Xi in the Moss Physcomitrella patens" Advisors: Destin Heilman, Luis Vidali |
| 2007 | Priya Jayachandran | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Kinetics of Nanoparticle—Based DNA Hybridization" Advisor: Susan Zhou |
| 2020 | Katherine Vaz Gomes | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing |