IQP Award finalists

President’s IQP Award finalists to make presentations, project teams to be celebrated on Jan. 30
January 29, 2015


An IQP team member interviews local

residents in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.

The 2014 President’s IQP Award finalists have been selected and the university will celebrate the project team finalists at the President’s IQP Award Ceremony on Friday, Jan. 30.

The President’s IQP Awards recognize the student teams whose conception, performance and presentation of their Interactive Qualifying Project has been judged outstanding in focusing on the relationships among science, technology, and the needs of society. To be considered for an award, the project must be superior in conception, execution, and presentation. There are no pre-determined categories for the awards, but the award recognizes the qualities for which the project excels. Each award consists of a Certificate of Merit.

The five teams will make their final presentations in Rubin Campus Center Odeum. The program will begin at 1:30 p.m. with opening remarks.

1:45 p.m.

Development and Initiation of Sustainable Wastewater Management in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Students: Sawin Areepipatkul, Marc Gelin, Nathan Longnecker, Phornphit Manageracharath, Laura Pumphrey, Corre Steele, Nontach Thanawatyanyong

Advisors: Creighton Peet and Gary Pollice

Chulalongkorn University Advisor: Patchanita Thamyongkit

2:15 p.m.

Proposal for Traffic Congestion Alleviation in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

Students: Shiv Sankar Baishya, Alyssa Bornstein, Shoubhik Debnath, Jan Keleher, Suraj Malode, Lena Pafumi, Sachin Saini

Advisor: Ingrid Shockey

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Advisor: Arti Kashyap

2:45 p.m.

Worcester Earn-A-Bike: Creating An Adaptive Bicycle

Students: Bror Axelsson, Jaclyn DeCristoforo, Kyla Rodger, Aida Waller

Advisors: Corey Dehner and Stephen McCauley

3:15

INTERMISSION

3:30 p.m.

Implications of Introducing the IIT Mandi to the Rural Kamand Region

Students: Kanv Garg, Sampath Kumar, Brianna Mikolich, Fiona Ogren, Justin Rice, Mahesh Yadav

Advisor: Ingrid Shockey

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Advisor: Rajeshwari Dutt

4 p.m.

Development of the Inspire Engineering Mentoring Program

Students: Matthew Jackson, Thomas Kostelak, Leah Pervere, Sarah Quatieri

Advisors: Laureen Elgert and Scott Jiusto

 

A reception will follow in Higgins House at 5 p.m., where the judges’ decisions will be announced.

 

2014 PRESIDENT’S IQP AWARD HONORABLE MENTION

 

Maitland Garden Village Perseverance Park Redevelopment

Students: Lucine Bahtiarian, Tyler Collins, Katherine Connors, Zachary Goddard

Advisors: Lorraine Higgins and Scott Jiusto

 

Recycling by Bicycle: A Green Alternative to Expand Recycling and Create Jobs in Windhoek

Students: Anne Jacobsen, Malick Kelly, Logan Roche, Evan White

Advisors: Melissa Belz and Robert Hersh

Offices and Departments

Ingrid Shockey
Ingrid Shockey
Teaching Professor,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
Ingrid Shockey is an environmental sociologist whose work concerns natural literacy and the interplay of human-wilderness relationships. These domains include topics in biodiversity loss, climate change perceptions, and our sense of place and identity with respect to the landscap [...]
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Corey Dehner
Corey Dehner
Associate Professor of Teaching,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
A public interest lawyer in my previous life, I was drawn to academia by its capacity to help facilitate attitudinal changes, foster dialogue, and inspire students to be ethically minded leaders. I thrive on the energy of students, particularly when I see them develop a newfound [...]
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Stephen McCauley
Stephen McCauley
Associate Professor of Teaching & Department Head,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
Stephen McCauley is a geographer whose work focuses on exploring how cities change and how urban futures can be inclusive, green and resilient. His broad substantive interests include climate change preparedness, urban resilience, energy system innovation, community participation [...]
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Laureen Elgert
Laureen Elgert
Professor,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
I joined WPI in 2011 as a scholar and teacher with training in public health, environmental policy, and international development studies. My research and teaching interests focused on the environment-development nexus, where tensions between sustainability and livelihoods often [...]
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Scott Jiusto
Scott Jiusto
Adjunct Teaching Professor, The Global School
My teaching, research, and community engagement is integrated through my participation in WPIs Global Projects Program, where I help students prepare for and conduct projects in places such as London, Venice, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Washington and Worcester. Through the WPI Cape To [...]
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Lorraine Higgins
Lorraine Higgins
Teaching Professor,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
My field is rhetoric, and I teach writing as a form of inquiry and problem solving. One challenge in my teaching is to get students to see writing that way. It is not simply window dressing for ideas they already have; writing is a way to create and test ideas, to engage in a dia [...]
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Melissa Belz
Melissa Belz
Associate Teaching Professor,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
I am a geographer with a focus on the cultural landscape, meaning landscapes that are shaped by people. I am interested in development, how and why places change, and why certain traditions endure. I study this mainly through vernacular architecture (traditional regional design). [...]
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Robert Hersh
Robert Hersh
Adjunct Teaching Professor, The Global School
Before coming to WPI in 2004,  Bob worked for a number of years as a Fellow at Resources for the Future, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC that conducts research and policy analysis on environmental quality and natural resources,  and as the Brownfields Director at the [...]
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