Top ten award winners and special awards for 2021 Capstone Expo
Thank you, class of 2021, for an amazing capstone program year, driven by your hard work and innovation! With the challenges we all faced this year, it is a testament to your character and strength. We are so proud of you!
A panel of judges joint us to identify the top ten projects and winners of special awards. The judges feedback was overwhelmingly positive and commended your ‘out of the box’ thinking, your creativity, and your social conscious, exhibited through your project choices.
We would like to thank again our panel of judges for the support!
After hours of diligent work our panel of judges selected these top projects:
Top Ten Projects and Special Awards
#1 place (awarded $100/student, sponsored by BlackRock)
Project S21-34: SMART Glove
Team members: Erik Castro, Brian Cheng, Nicholas Chu, Gary Qian, Thomas Luy
Adviser: Dr. Hana Godrich
#2 place (awarded $75/student, sponsored by 7x24 Exchange Metro NY)
Project S21-10: Improvements to the Viability of. Solar Panels in the Field
Team members: Nathaniel Glikman, Alexander Laemmle, Nicholas Meegan, Bhargav Singaraju, Sukhjit Singh
Adviser: Dr. Michael Caggiano and Cameron Greene (L3Harris)
#3 place (awarded $50/student, sponsored by L3Harris)
Project S21-49: Mental Health Chatbot: KANA
Team members: Jennifer Huang, Samuel Zahner, Nishad Nalgundwar, and Vincent Chan
Adviser: Dr. Kristin Dana
#4 place ($25/student)
Project S21-13: Eagle-View: Realtime Onboard Monitoring in Agriculture for Weed Clusters
Team members: Andrew Dass, Andrew Vincent, Virajbhai Patel, Harsh Desai, Jeffrey Samson
Advisers: Dr. Dario Pompili and Khizar Anjum
#5 place ($25/student)
Project S21-45: RU-Therapy
Team members: Khizer Humayun, Akash Govindaraju, Sianna Arruda, Rebekah Bediako, Hedaya Walter, and Katherine Moreira
Adviser: Dr. Hana Godrich
#6 place ($25/student)
Project S21-11: Project LOUIS
Team members: Sahil Patel, Darshan Singh, Luan Tran, Tan Ngo, and Khanh Nguyen
Adviser: Dr. Kristin Dana
#7 place ($25/student)
Project S21-38: F-SCAN DS: Foot Splinter, Cut, and Nick Detection System for the Purpose of Preventing Amputations in Diabetics
Team members: Amber Haynes and Maria Rios
Advisers: Dr. Jorge Ortiz
#8 place ($25/student)
Project S21-02: Real-time Analytics of Hurricane Gliders
Team members: Radhe Bangad, Matthew Chan, Brian DelRocini, Kinjal Patel, Jasmine Philip
Adviser: Dr. Scott Glenn
#9 place ($25/student)
Project S21-21: Tracking Cleaning Progress with Computer Vision
Team members: Andrew Ko, Edler Olanday, Parth Patel, Piotr Zakrevski
Adviser: Dr. Yuqian Zhang
#10 place ($25/student)
Project S21-20: CO2NSUME
Team members: Samantha Moy, Shreya Patel, Atmika Ponnusamy, and Nandita Shenoy
Advisers: Dr. Jorge Ortiz
Best in Research Award ($50/student)
Project S21-49: Mental Health Chatbot: KANA
Team members: Jennifer Huang, Samuel Zahner, Nishad Nalgundwar, and Vincent Chan
Adviser: Dr. Kristin Dana
Best in Impact Award (awarded $50/student)
Project S21-38: F-SCAN DS: Foot Splinter, Cut, and Nick Detection System for the Purpose of Preventing Amputations in Diabetics
Team members: Amber Haynes and Maria Rios
Adviser: Dr. Jorge Ortiz
Best in Commercialization ($50/student) a tie between two teams
Project S21-31: Occupancy Monitoring System with Computer. Vision Algorithms
Team members: Samantha Cheng, Kylie Chow, Sonia Hua, Sneh Shah
Adviser: Dr. Yuqian Zhang
Project S21-52: I. O. Clean
Team members: Jonathan Banks, Edward Gaskin, Alex Martorano
Adviser: Dr. Kevin Lu (Stevens) and Dr. Hana Godrich
Congratulation to this year’s senior students who participated in the ECE capstone program and their advisers for a job well done!
Prof. Hana Godrich