2021 - 2022 Capstone Award Winners

See the photos from the 2022 Capstone Design Expo.

Biomedical Engineering

  • First place: BME 111 - Processing Pipeline for Neuromonitoring Event Detection
  • Second place: BME 109 - Objective Measurement of Finger Tap, Tremor, and Rigidity During DBS Surgery
  • Third place: BME 104 - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Monitoring Device

Chemical and Life Science Engineering

  • First place: CLSE 206 - Design of a Drinking Water Treatment Plant for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Subs
  • Second place: CLSE 213 - Dynamic Flow and Sensing capability for Cooling Tower Studies
  • Third place: CLSE 203 - Feasibility comparison of vacuum distillation and reverse osmosis for dewatering of natural acidic deep eutectic solvents

Computer Science

  • First place: CS 304 - Privacy-first Blockchain-based Data Sharing for Cancer Radio Therapy
  • Second place: CS 309 - Computer-Vision-Aided Wearable Assistive Device
  • Third place: CS 321 - Virtual Reality: Interactive Biophilia Desk Design
  • Honorable mention: CS 314 - Music Composition using Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Honorable mention: CS 320 - Climate Change Game

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • First place: ECE 404 - Drone Controller
  • Second place: ECE 405 - James-River Autonomous Monitoring Environmental Subsurface-Vehicle
  • Third place: ECE 406 - Mood Lighting

Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

  • First place: MNE 504 - 3-D Modeling and Analysis of Byrd Park Pump House Machinery
  • Second place: MNE 512 - Reactor Vessel Stud Hole Plugs for Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Power Plants
  • Third place: MNE 515 - Building systems evaluation of VCU School of Nursing building

Multidisciplinary Teams 

  • First place: MULT 615 - Modular Entertainment Light Fixture
  • Second place: MULT 603 - Tribology Testing of New Automotive Materials
  • Third place: MULT 609 - The Healthy Hulk: A Modular Vertical Farm for the Richmond Community

Best Industrial Awards

  • CS 330 - Helping online authors become more profitable through data aggregation and analysis

Dean's Choice Awards

  • BME 109 - Objective Measurement of Finger Tap, Tremor and Rigidity During DBS Surgery

People's Choice Awards

  • BME 109 - Objective Measurement of Finger Tap, Tremor and Rigidity During DBS Surgery

2021 - 2022 Projects