2019 - 2020 Projects
Highlighted table row denotes project finalist
Biomedical Engineering
| Project Number | Project Name | Sponsor | Instructor | Students |
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BME 101 (001) |
Development of a Multi-head Microencapsulator for More Efficient Production of Regenerative Medicine Products | SpherIngenics, Inc. | Michael McClure (mccluremj2@vcu.edu) | Ayoub Baaddi, Tyler Heath, Marika Whitlatch, Vidal Bejar-Padilla |
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BME 102 (002) |
Waterproof Osseointegration Covers for Army Vet who Lost Both Legs Above the Knee | Quality of Life Plus Program | Thea Pepperl (aapepperl@vcu.edu) | Colton St Clair, Manav Parekh, Aryon Shariati, Dillon Forte, Mitchell Hoag |
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BME 103 (003) |
Reading cue to scan all the way to the left for smart tablet | Quality of Life Plus Program | Paul Wetzel (pawetzel@vcu.edu) | Emily Cheng, Hannah Peters, Bradley Zoll |
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BME 104 (006) |
Clean Lines for Pediatric dialysis | Children's Hospital of Richmond - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | Thea Pepperl (aapepperl@vcu.edu) | Ayo Clark, Kyla Bosh, Erica Duerbeck, Sara Flores, Shaheda Mehsut |
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BME 105 (009) |
Wearable skin conductance measurement device | VCU Department of Occupational Therapy | Paul Wetzel (pawetzel@vcu.edu) | Samantha Zhao, Mansi Shah, Sahil Chindal, Kristin Kim, Jason Burch |
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BME 106 (016) |
Toe walking insole measurement tool | VCU Department of Occupational Therapy | Thea Pepperl (aapepperl@vcu.edu) | Sri Bankuru, Michelle Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Arth Shah |
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BME 107 (017) |
Narcotic Waste Management | Narcotic Waste Management | Brian Taylor (bataylor2@vcu.edu) | Melanie Blackman, Christopher Largaespada, Jersey Krupp, Prerna Yadav |
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BME 108 (018) |
Safe Hands for Adaptive Rowing | Sportable | Carrie Peterson (clpeterson@vcu.edu) | Jehad Alamoudi, Abigail Park, Alexander Windsor, Fatimah Abualsaud, James Filson |
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BME 112 (092) |
Contour Foam Seating to Cue Sitting Balance in Children with Impaired Postural Control | VCU Health - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Carrie Peterson (clpeterson@vcu.edu) | Samuel Kossol, Omprakash Lankalapalli, Neil Patel, Shane Albin |
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BME 115 (107) |
Surgical Delivery of a Regenerative Biologic for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Repair | Embody | Jennifer Puetzer (jlpuetzer@vcu.edu) | Chasity Kay, Neeha Gambhirrao, Rohani Patel, Anupama Pathak, Ushna Arora |
Chemical & Life Science Engineering
| Project Number | Project Name | Sponsor | Instructor | Students |
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CLSE 201 (020) |
CHT/Quantum Silicones Flammable Siloxane Waste Reduction | CHT USA | Ben Ward (bcward@vcu.edu) | Mansour Alobaid, Brianna Hughes, Faisal Kamal |
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CLSE 202 (021) |
Reduced O2 entering cans during canning process of craft beer (Clone) Starr Hill, Hardywood | Starr Hill Brewery | Ben Ward (bcward@vcu.edu) | Colin Bailey, Imani Bynum, Curtis Farmer |
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CLSE 203 (022) |
Rapid, Point of Care Test for Diagnosing Acute Cardiac Ischemia – Carry Over | VCU Health Systems - Nephrology and Anesthesiology | Daniel Conway (dconway@vcu.edu), Nastassja Lewinski (nalewinski@vcu.edu) | Brenda Mauricio Arce, Collin Rodrigues, Ernesto Tinoco Benitez |
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CLSE 204 (023) |
Nylon 6 Batch Reactor Design | AdvanSix, Inc | Michael Peters (mpeters@vcu.edu) | Olivia Cummings, Robert McMillin, Cristian Romero-fuentes, Christopher Vasey |
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CLSE 205 (024) |
Process Cooling Improvement (Modeling and Design) - Sabra | Sabra | Tom Roper (tdroper@vcu.edu) | Muhammad Ali, Enoch Comber, Kimberly Cox, Alexander Kim |
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CLSE 206 (025) |
Wastewater Treatment Improvements (Solids Removal) - Sabra | Sabra | Mo Jiang (mjiang3@vcu.edu) | Fatimah Abu Hussain, Mohammed Alotaibi, Abdullah Altorki |
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CLSE 207 (027) |
Develop a low cost, high throughput screening methodology for chemical additives. | ChemTreat | Tyler McQuade (tmcquade@vcu.edu) | Bailee Crisinati, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Youssef Amin |
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CLSE 208 (028) |
The Global Plastic Pollution Challenge - Identification, Sampling Methodology, and Mitigation Strategies | Suez | James Ferri (jkferri@vcu.edu) | Abdullah Almutairi, Abriel Armour, John Perkins |
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CLSE 209 (078) |
Design of a Heat Exchanger for a Production Crystal Growth Reactor | Kyma Technologies | Frank Gupton (bfgupton@vcu.edu) | Maranda Paolucci, Zachary Rivers, Marko Collins |
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CLSE 210 (095) |
Measurement ofThermal Conductivity of Hydrocarbon Mixtures and Fuels | Afton Chemical Corporation | Ram Gupta (rbgupta@vcu.edu) | Steven Gannon, Matthew Glace, Tien Vuong |
Computer Science
| Project Number | Project Name | Sponsor | Instructor | Students |
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CS 301 (029) |
Database analysis and set up | Friendship Circle of Virginia | Hong-Sheng Zhou (hszhou@vcu.edu) | Nazmus Saqib, Abdulateef Oladele, Morgan Jones |
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CS 302 (030) |
Data analytics, visualization and software development for an enterprise-wide healthcare data repository | VCU Health - Radiation Oncology | Preetam Ghosh (pghosh@vcu.edu) | Samuel Coppedge, Michael Fitzgerald, Ali Tayeh, Michael Poblacion |
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CS 303 (031) |
CHSA Web Interface and Database | Capital Horse Shows Association | Lorraine Parker (lparker@vcu.edu) | Kaitlyn Chandler, Christine Lee, Addison Hodges |
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CS 304 (032) |
Automated Information Extraction of Real Estate Data from Listing Signs | CoStar Group, Inc. | Bartek Krawczyk (bkrawczyk@vcu.edu) | Derek-Duy Pham, Fidel Rodriguez, Joshua Lopez |
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CS 305 (035) |
Coding with Beats | VCU College of Engineering | David Shepherd (shepherdd@vcu.edu) | An Nguyen, Matthew Meyer, Edtwuan Bowman, Jorge Villavicencio |
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CS 306 (036) |
Course Builder Internship Opportunity | VCU ALT Lab | Caroline Budwell (ccbudwell@vcu.edu) | Joseph Longo, Aarthi Iyer, Harshitha Mattapally |
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CS 307 (037) |
CodeVA Python SOL Development | CodeVA | Caroline Budwell (ccbudwell@vcu.edu) | Dakota Brown, Cameron Frostick, Benjamin Napier, Seth Vickers, Kenneth Richardson |
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CS 308 (039) |
Effects of Climate Change on US Shipbuilding Facilities | Newport News Shipbuilding | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | Christopher Maybush, Gavin Alberghini, Hakizimana Jeanmarie, Daniel Webster |
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CS 309 (040) |
Storm Runoff Model | Science Museum of Virginia | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | Taryn Hains-Karmilovich, Patrick Sullivan, Vincent Nguyen, Connor Massaro |
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CS 310 (041) |
System for Automatically Delivering Reflection Prompts to Students while Coding | VCU College of Engineering | Kostadin Damevski (kdamevski@vcu.edu) | Angel De la Rosa, Harrison Cook, Elias Pope |
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CS 311 (042) |
DMAT Application: Optimize & Improve User Experience (UX) | Bank Of America | David Shepherd (shepherdd@vcu.edu) | Daniel Lee, Daniel McNamara, Daniel Rodriguez |
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CS 312 (043) |
Augmented Reality App for Asset Management | GeoDecisions | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | Shrey Patel, Nathan Lieu, Suraj Ilavala, Ezra Yim |
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CS 313 (045) |
Monitoring Dynamics of Emergency Vehicles | VCU Emergency Medicine | Tamer Nadeem (tnadeem@vcu.edu) | James Agliano, Peter George, Avery Rector, Daniel Lenton |
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CS 314 (046) |
GAME DEVELOPMENT: CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS | VCU College of Engineering | Krzysztof Cios (kcios@vcu.edu) | Zeshan Wang, Junhui Li, Charles Wells |
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CS 315 (048) |
Data Quality / Predictability | Bank Of America | Bridget McInnes (btmcinnes@vcu.edu) | Heman Baral, Andriy Mulyar, Reagan Zhou |
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CS 316 (049) |
Email Content Anomaly Detection | Capital One | Changqing Luo (cluo@vcu.edu) | Bharat Venkat, Jeremy Bailey, Liam Fernando, Mohammad Usman Malik |
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CS 317 (050) |
Agent Proficiency Prediction | Capital One | Carol Fung (cfung@vcu.edu) | Travis Puckett, Jacob Unterman, Austin Whitby, Tom Nguyen |
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CS 318 (051) |
Math 151 Location Software Project | VCU Mathematics | Irfan Ahmed (iahmed3@vcu.edu) | Maxwell Lindquist, Francisco Esteve, Hailey Barnes, Sarah Yimam |
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CS 319 (052) |
Monitoring Coverage Audit System | Bank Of America | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | King Martin, Vasu Dhingani, Kriti Sehgal |
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CS 320 (053) |
Visualizing the Behavior of a Complex System | Bank Of America | John Leonard (jdleonard@vcu.edu) | Zachary Stephens, Saurav Chatterjee, Brian Zhang |
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CS 321 (054) |
Clinical NLP Processing Pipeline Workflow IntegrationClinical NLP Processing Pipeline Workflow Integration | VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research | Bridget McInnes (btmcinnes@vcu.edu) | Aidan Kierans, John Tarongoy, Judah Sebastian |
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CS 322 (055) |
Drone-Delivered Naloxone SystemDrone-Delivered Naloxone System | VCU Emergency Medicine | Tamer Nadeem (tnadeem@vcu.edu) | Anthony Caliri, Tyler Griggs, Sreepradha Sreekesh, Tin Vu |
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CS 323 (059) |
Demonstration of Image/ Literature - trained AI / ML System for Individual Plant Disease Detection, Classification , and Semantics | Cannon Virginia, Inc | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | Anhhuy Jeffrey Nguyen, Jose Miranda, Revant Reddy, Chady Aboulhosn |
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CS 324 (106) |
A Government’s Node on Afloat’s Permissioned Blockchain | Afloat, Inc | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | Rasha Abuhantash, Christopher Gibbs, Matthew Mawyer, Darren Chan |
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CS 325 (101) |
Interface Development for Visualization and Exploration of Medical Reflective Writings for Clinical Educators | VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research | Bridget McInnes (btmcinnes@vcu.edu) | Sean Kotrola, Suzanne Prince, Aidan Myers |
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CS 326 (089) |
Ballistic Data Acquisition Software System | DuPont | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu) | James Stallings, Micah Parks, John Naylor |
Electrical & Computer Engineering
| Project Number | Project Name | Sponsor | Instructor | Students |
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ECE 401 |
Hack Proof Micro Relays | VCU College of Engineering | Gary Atkinson (gmatkins@vcu.edu) | Dalton Dabney, Isaac Waggoner |
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ECE 402 |
Turtle Guardian | VCU College of Engineering | Michael Cabral (mcabral@vcu.edu) | William Cleveland, Mark Johnston, Jared Carey, Nosayba Hamada |
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ECE 403 |
Modular Power System for Hyperloop Vehicles | VCU College of Engineering | Alen Docef (adocef@vcu.edu) | Matthew Kozak, Adam Ball, Emma McCamey, Abdulrahman Alhaddad |
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ECE 404 |
Predictive Flexible Sensor Platform | Philip Morris USA | Vennie Filippas (avfilippas@vcu.edu) | Caitlyn Hazelwood, Dajion Martin, Jillian Donohue, Adam Neel |
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ECE 405 |
Bell Jar Thermal Vacuum Control System Development | NASA | Ashok Iyer (aiyer@vcu.edu) | Kosuke Yokoyama, Morgan Son |
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ECE 406 |
Blu-Ray Development Kit for Nano Science | VCU College of Engineering | Nate Kinsey (nkinsey@vcu.edu) | Daniel Kuleff, Keegan Miller, Noah Reilly, Tommy Vu |
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ECE 407 |
Cost Effective 3D Enriched Urban Mapping | VCU College of Engineering | Bob Klenke (rhklenke@vcu.edu) | Nicholas Debord, Gabriel Smith |
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ECE 408E |
Collaborative sUAS and UGV operations | VCU College of Engineering | Bob Klenke (rhklenke@vcu.edu) | Michael Kimbrough, Lucas Craft, Lawrence Laney |
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ECE 409 |
Force-Driven Haptic Feedback Robot | VCU - Engineering and Biomechanics Lab | Yuichi Motai (ymotai@vcu.edu) | Kareem Alshomaly, Yaqoub Alqallaf, Hamed AlBastaki |
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ECE 410 |
USPS Smart Container System | United States Postal Service | Ruixin Niu (rniu@vcu.edu) | John Yousef, Luis Franco Argueta, Reindorf Dwamena Addo, Jordan Weiss |
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ECE 411 |
Drone for Search, Rescue and Drug Delivery | VCU College of Engineering | Erdem Topsakal (etopsakal@vcu.edu) | Justin George, Michelle Kao, Keyona Robertson, Maksudul Rana |
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ECE 412 |
High Speed, Low Environmental Impact, One-Way Underwater Communications System | VCU College of Engineering | Erdem Topsakal (etopsakal@vcu.edu) | Ciarra Cartwright Elliott, James Forsberg, Erwin Karincic, Jonathan Lundquist |
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ECE 413 |
Application of Transmission Synchrophasor Data for Symmetrical Component Analysis | Dominion Energy Virginia | Zhifang Wang (zfwang@vcu.edu) | Amer Amr, Harini Mody, Jonathan Walsh, Joseph Burke |
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ECE 414 |
Project Psyche – Image Analysis of Iron Meteorites | Arizona State Univeristy | Ben Ward (bcward@vcu.edu) | George Constantine, Charles Dietzel, Ismilsys Priede Armesto |
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ECE 415 |
Automobile Instrument Cluster Bench Vehicle Simulator | VCU College of Engineering | Weijun Xiao (wxiao@vcu.edu) | Andrew Bell, Samuel Graham, George Kumi, Neel Patel |
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ECE 416 |
Glove Dipping Prototyping Tool | DuPont | Michael Cabral (mcabral@vcu.edu) | Stephen Tan, Christopher Withers |
Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering
| Project Number | Project Name | Sponsor | Instructor | Students |
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MNE 501 (070) |
Core Design and Optimization for LWRs with Ha-LEU fuels | VCU College of Engineering | Zeyun Wu (zwu@vcu.edu) | Liam Carlson, Brendan Fisher, Michael Cartwright, Caleb Taylor |
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MNE 502 (072) |
Compact Wind Turbine for Tactical Energy Production | VCU College of Engineering | Laleh Golshahi (lgolshahi@vcu.edu) | Denver Lackey, Frederick Pinney, Jared Snyder, Jared Graziani |
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MNE 503 (073) |
Thermal Conductivity Measurement System | VCU College of Engineering | Reza Mohammadi (rmohammadi@vcu.edu) | Ramy Aly, Rachel Neller, Eddy Ekouevi, Cheol Han |
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MNE 504 (074) |
Multipledegrees offreedom Magnetic Actuator | VCU College of Engineering | Hong Zhao (hzhao2@vcu.edu) | Trevor Gleeson, Abdulaziz Alkandari, Grayson Chenault, Sebastian Frontuto |
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MNE 505 (075) |
Ballistic Clay Calibration Oven | DuPont | Braden Goddard (bgoddard@vcu.edu) | Jazzmin Payne, Christopher Rodriguez, Joshua Gateley, Jordan Glisan |
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MNE 506 (077) |
Fresnel telescope with fiber-optic bundle for a small satellite (SmallSat) design | NASA | Carlos Castano Londono (cecastanolond@vcu.edu) | Shelby Ireland, Susan McLeod, Christopher Boleman, Zhongyuan Peng |
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MNE 507 (081) |
Structure Subjected to Hydrostatic Load | Newport News Shipbuilding | Frank Gulla (fagulla@vcu.edu) | Andrew Barbieri, Ashley Brown, Hunter Kobrinetz, Adam Mayfield |
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MNE 508 (082) |
Data Center Cooling (submarines) | Newport News Shipbuilding | Gennady Miloshevsky (gmiloshevsky@vcu.edu) | Mark Nuckols, Mitchell Haraburda, David Powers |
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MNE 509 (084) |
Small Footprint Selective Laser Melting Additive Manufacturing | VCU College of Engineering | Ibrahim Guven (iguven@vcu.edu) | Anthony Gonnella, Tyler Dobrucky, Surajkumar Kunthu, Jared Miklosovic |
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MNE 510 (085) |
Temperature and Humidity Controllable Smart Chamber | VCU College of Engineering | Weining Wang (wnwang@vcu.edu) | Sean Engel, Stephen Tignor, Timothy Garrison, Ali Dashti |
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MNE 511 (086) |
Handling of the Letter Tray Sleeve | United States Postal Service | Sheng-Chieh Chen (scchen@vcu.edu) | Abdullah Alattar, Hassan Alhaddad, Patrick Kelly, Derek Pierce |
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MNE 512 (103) |
Dog Treat Training Dispenser | nvntz of Richmond | John Speich (jespeich@vcu.edu) | Matthew Piper, Richard Lester, Anthony Trotta, Zaid Shaikh |
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MNE 513 (106) |
Solid State and Energy Efficient Magnetic Refrigerator | Virginia Commonwealth University | Ravi Hadimani (rhadimani@vcu.edu) | Max Korman, Joshua Harding, Mitchell Haraburda |
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MNE 514 (108) |
Image recognition with machine learning: Artificial Intelligence for mechanical engineers | VCU College of Engineering | Jayasimha Atulasimha (jatulasimha@vcu.edu) | Timothy Bailey, Mark Lozano, Luis Ayala, James Nicholson |
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MNE 515 (013) |
Accurate Measurement System to Precisely Determine Patient Burn Area | VCU Health - Evans-Haynes Burn Center | Joao Soares (jsoares@vcu.edu) | Samuel Baker, Sam Cole, Elisabeth Patton, Eliot Costic |
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MNE 516 (021) |
Reduced O2 entering cans during canning process of craft beer | Starr Hill Brewery | Bradley Nichols (brnichols@vcu.edu) | Brendan Quiroz, Shane McNamara, Jacob Lang, Noah Holden |
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MNE 517 (069) |
Design and Prototype of 3D Printed Wind Tunnel Model with Integrated Force Measurement | NASA | Charles Cartin (cartincp@vcu.edu) | Zachary Clarke, Stephen Holtz, Andrew Wingfield, Cecily Sheffield |
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MNE 518 (073) |
Collaborative Force-Driven Haptic Feedback Robot | VCU - Engineering and Biomechanics Lab | Bradley Nichols (brnichols@vcu.edu) | Ryan Compton, John Gallagher, William Merritt, Joshua Pollock |
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MNE 519 (078) |
Design of a Heat Exchanger for a Production Crystal Growth Reactor | Kyma Technologies | Weining Wang (wnwang@vcu.edu) | Bailey Moore, Daniel McCauley, Justin John, Evan Goff |
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MNE 520 (087) |
Implementation of a Portable Nuclear Reactor Simulator | VCU College of Engineering | James Miller (jgmiller@vcu.edu) | Paul Anhalt, Ryan Walker, Jenna Gaspar |
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MNE 521 (105) |
Recumbent Bike Security | Quality of Life Plus Program | Worth Longest (pwlongest@vcu.edu) | Emily Snyder, Tammi Chen, Justin Williams, Omri Ware |
Multidisciplinary
| Project Number | Project Name | Sponsor | Instructor | Students |
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MULT 601 (BME/MNE 094) |
Recumbent Bike Lift assistance | Quality of Life Plus Program | Thea Pepperl (aapepperl@vcu.edu), Jessika Rojas (jvrojas@vcu.edu) | Isabella Evans-Riester, Sarah Gibson, Baizeed Khan, Andrew Abell, Gery Terrazas |
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MULT 603 (CLSE/MNE 026) |
Design Control Methodologies fortheTribofilm Structure on Engine Surfaces | Afton Chemical Corporation | Frank Gupton (bfgupton@vcu.edu), Hooman Tafreshi (htafreshi@vcu.edu | Youngbin Kim, Edwin Winfield, Kaylyn Hardy, Karlitza Molina-Santiago, Mary Sprague |
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MULT 604 (MNE / CLSE 088) |
Completion of a Small Scale Soft Gel Capsule Device and Process | Pfizer / GSK | Frank Gupton (bfgupton@vcu.edu), Gary Tepper (gctepper@vcu.edu) | Grayson Giddings, Alexander Koch, Jennifer Fore, Madaline Jaszkowski |
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MULT 605 (058) |
Determine the Feasibility of Distinguishing Seafood Species Using Images of the Raw Seafood Flesh | Cannon Virginia, Inc | Robert Dahlberg (dahlbergra@vcu.edu), Dan Resler (dresler@vcu.edu) | Jacob Draddy, Zachary Smith, Daniel Ruiz, Kyle Taylor, Aaron Trent |
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MULT 607 |
Design and Demonstration of a Modular Sail System for Oil and Bulk Tankers | VCU College of Engineering | Carl Elks (crelks@vcu.edu), Karla Mossi (kmmossi@vcu.edu) | James Robinson, Blake Kinkead, Adel Mahmoud, Peter Warasila |
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MULT 608 |
Biometric Sensor | Newport News Shipbuilding | Dean Krusienski (djkrusienski@vcu.edu), Yanxiao Zhao (yzhao7@vcu.edu) | Alexander Will, Kiana Jackson, Cara Brooks, Vanessa Fodong, Kyle Warner |
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MULT 609 |
Automated Palletizing and Stretch Wrapping | Sabra | Frank Gulla (fagulla@vcu.edu), Vitaliy Avrutin (vavrutin@vcu.edu) | Abdullah Alsamani, Tanbirul Islam, Nico Samonte, Arnaud Nzegang, Kathy Truong |
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MULT 610 |
Medication Bottle Sensors | Children's Hospital of Richmond - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | Thea Pepperl (aapepperl@vcu.edu), Sherif Abdelwahed (sabdelwahed@vcu.edu) | Andrew Clements, Saeed Manjili, Misael Mendoza, Huy Duong, Andrew Shenton |