Provost's MQP Awards

Awarded by
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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
2021 Christian Adler, Raymond Dolan, Elizabeth Kirschner, Henry Stadolnik Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

Magnet Suit Game/Factory Reset

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."

Advisors: Prof. Kenneth Stafford, William Michalson

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 Mario Alvarado Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Developing Fluorescent Aminoazobenzene Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Advisor: Shawn Burdette

2008 Briana Morey, Ravi Vasudevan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"100W Class D Audio Amplifier"

Advisors: John McNeil, Andrew Klein

2020 James Andon, Katherine Vasconcelos Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

BaNCE: A Simplified Model for in vivo Non-Continuous Evolution

2022 Lilly-Beth Linnell Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

“Neuroanatomical Biomarkers for Suicidality in Dissociative Identity”

Advisors: Ben Nephew, Jeanine Skorinko

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

Design, Analysis, and Test of a High-Powered Model Rocket-1

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"
Advisor: Walter Towner

 

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."

Advisor:  Reeta Rao

2021 Kevin Stern Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

Equivalent Resistances of Polytope Networks

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."

Advisor: Robert Daniello

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 Zachary Harmony, Erin Murphy, Jillian Proulx, Jeremy Soderholm Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Gateway Student Center"

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

Co-Designing for Gold Mining Safety

2022 Benjamin Draper Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Stair Capable Robotic Vacuum”

Advisors: Siavash Farzan, Jing Xiao

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"
Advisors: Rose Bohrer, Ben Schneider

 

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."

Sponsor:  Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD)

2021 Brooke Dawson, Hannah Gallagher, Amelia Harvey, Lilly Nardelli, Aram Soultanian Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Redesigned Shark Tagging

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."

Advisor:  Michael Demetriou

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 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"
Advisors: Michael Demetriou, Loris Fichera

 

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

Structure/Function Studies of EGFR Family and Kek1

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"
Advisors: Edward Gonsalves, Aaron Sakulich

 

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)."

Advisors: Profs. Michael Ciaraldi, Fred Looft

2021 Catherine M. Hogan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Computational Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Heat Exchanger with AlN:Mo Cylindrical Susceptors

2015 Daniele Mucaro Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2009 Elizabeth Gould Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem in 3 Dimensions"

Advisor: P.K. Aravind

2019 Shaun McCoy and Erika Stark Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Evaluating Sunscreen Actives and Their Derivatives as Potential Sensitizers in DSSC."

Advisor: Drew Brodeur

2022 William Cross, Adrian Curless, Alexander Simoneau Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

“Ultrafork and Focused KSM: Tools for Memory Optimization in Duplicate Containers” 

Advisor: Craig Shue