Engineering the Technology of Tomorrow at SCU Engineering's Senior Design Conference
Jose Diaz
For the first time in over two years, over 400 guests came out to the 52nd Annual Senior Design Conference for the School of Engineering. This year we had 212 senior Broncos present their capstone projects spread over 16 sessions throughout campus, including the new Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation. In total, the senior design conference showcased seventy unique projects across showroom floors.
A few of the projects showcased included an “Automated Donation Tracking and Certification App for Colombian Food Bank” that logs and tracks donations and donors, an “Autonomous Vending Automobile (AVA),” a mobile solar-powered vending machine designed to move across college campuses and provide caffeinated beverages, and a “Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 14-specific Inhibitor for Hepatocellular Carcinoma”, a project that aims to create a PARP14-specific small-molecule inhibitor via click chemistry techniques that will help regulate an overexpressed PARP14 in liver cells that tend to be cancerous. Alumni/ae and industry judges evaluated the student teams on their ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying engineering, science, and mathematics principles. A winning team was chosen from each session, except for a tie in the Mechanical Engineering Session 2, resulting in 17 winners for this year's conference! The highest-scoring teams from each session will be recognized at the Senior Awards and Honors Convocation on June 10, 2022.
The conference was a great success, and it could not have been possible without the support of faculty, staff, students, and friends of the University. A special thank you to all who were involved!
To learn more about Senior Design Conference, read project abstracts, and view the photo gallery, check out our Senior Design Conference web portal.
Below is a list of all of this year’s winning projects:
BIOENGINEERING SESSION 1
Poly(ADR-ribose) Polymerase 14-specific Inhibitor for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Seniors: Clarissa Silvers, Colin Sim
Advisors: Ian Carter-O'Connell, Bill Lu
BIOENGINEERING SESSION 2
Shear Detection of Microencapsulated Cells for Monoclonal Antibody Production Scaleup
Seniors: Dwight Johnson, Kendall Defelippi
Advisor: Maryam Mobed-Miremadi
CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING SESSION 1
Supetai Well Water Purification
Seniors: Claire Russon, Nicole Valdivia, Geovanni Usher
Advisor: Aria Amirbahman
CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING SESSION 2
Emergency Relief Structure for Natural Disaster Evacuees and the Homeless Population
Seniors: Rodrigo Mendez, Margaret Tolan, Madeline Yee
Advisors: Reynaud Serrette, Rachel He
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SESSION 1
OliveAI
Seniors: Beckett Johnson, Ben Kummert, Alex Lewis
Advisor: Zhiqiang Tao
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SESSION 2
EMT: Software-based Energy Management Tool for WiFi IoT Devices
Seniors: Nidusha Kannan, Aastha Chawla, Sreya Goyalia
Advisor: Behnam Dezfouli
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SESSION 3
Large Scale Database Audio Collection of Tuberculosis Patients
Seniors: JT Vinolus, Jordan Randleman, Daniela De La Torre, Aimee Kerr
Advisor: Silvia Figueira
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SESSION 4
Autonomous and Interactive Control of a Mobile Robot
Seniors: Tanner Kaczmarek, Stephen Tambussi, Dylan Hoover, Kevin Molumphy
Advisor: Christopher Kitts
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SESSION 5
Orient: Teaching OOP with AR
Seniors: Shivangi Kar, Stephanie Lu
Advisor: Sharon Hsiao
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SESSION 6
Automated Donation Tracking and Certification App for Colombian Food Bank
Seniors: Arren Leung, Adrian Ramirez Lopez, Alex Fang, Rodrigo Mejia
Advisor: Angela Musurlian
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SESSION 1
Cost Efficient Radio Telescope
Seniors: Tyler Ikehara, Brian Benedicto, Nick Arroyo
Advisor: Kurt Schab
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SESSION 2
Remote Crop Disease Detection System Using Deep Learning with IoT
Seniors: Ivy Chung, Anoushka Gupta
Advisor: Tokunbo Ogunfunmi
INTERDISCIPLINARY SESSION 1
Machine Learning fMRI Autism Classifier
Senior: Nicholas Luckenbach
Advisors: Zhiqiang Tao, Lang Chen
INTERDISCIPLINARY SESSION 2
Modular Oceanic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Novel Actuation (MOANA) 2.0
Seniors: Ryan Konrath, Eva Kennar, Jake Taylor, Andrew Knaus, Silas Kidd Myers, Daniel Gutierrez
Advisor: Christopher Kitts
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SESSION 1 (TIE)
Coconut Oil Space Cooler
Seniors: Alex Fessler, Largim Zhuta, Hannah Covington
Advisor: Hohyun Lee
Victoria Relief Foundation Kitchen Appliances
Seniors: Guillermo Escobar, Ben Voelz, Seth Brown, Shane Murphy, Leslie Valenzuela
Advisors: Godfrey Mungal, Jes Kuczenski
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SESSION 2
Autonomous Vending Automobile (AVA)
Seniors: Alec Lindeman, Antonio Matusich, Jordan Hibbs, Jagos Jovanovic, Nick Elwell
Advisor: Godfrey Mungal