Provost's MQP Awards

Awarded by
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

These awards offer recognition to those students who have completed outstanding Major Qualifying Projects (MQPs) as a demonstration of their competency in a chosen academic discipline. Each academic department conducts its own competition to select the winners. In 2016, nearly 50 students were recognized for their innovation and achievements in WPI’s project-based learning curriculum.

 

 

Browse Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2023 Claire Behning, Amanda Holbrook Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies, Psychological Science

"Exploring the Effect of CBD on C. elegans with 6-OHDA-induced Parkinson's Disease to Determine Potential Therapeutic Effects "
Advisors: Michael Buckholt, James Doyle, Jill Rulfs, Suzanne Scarlata, Jagan Srinivasan

2023 Caylee Butler, Slater Campbell, Trevor Parks, Charles Snow Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Ropeless Lobster System: Resurfacing Oceanic Locator"
Advisor: William Michalson

 

2023 Adele Brochu, Evan Rios, Kali Sander, Caitlin Strzegowski Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

"Stormwater Management and Design in Framingham, Massachusetts"
Advisors: Suzanne LePage, Paul Mathisen

 

2023 Sophia Togneri Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"Integrating Herbal Medicine into Modern Healthcare Systems:  A Case Study on Artemisia annua in China, the US, and Kenya"
Advisor: John Galante

 

2023 Brianna Ankstitus, Martin Carrau, Malyssa Deranian, Heather McGlauflin, Cherylle Eliza Sabilla Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

"Manufacturing Process Standardization at Affordable Interior Systems"
Advisor: Walter Towner

 

2023 Michael Beskid, Ryan Brunelle, Calista Carrignan, Robert Devlin, Toshak Patel, Kofi Sarfo Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Design and Testing of an Amphibious AUV"
Advisors: Michael Demetriou, Loris Fichera

 

2023 Lena Dias, Harmoni Larrabee, Mitchel Tanguay Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

Neurotype Café"
Advisors: Rose Bohrer, Ben Schneider

 

2023 Stefanie Beaudry, Vanessa Bussiere, Sarah Johnson, Athina Theofilou Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Net Zero and Resilient Housing for Heat Waves"
Advisors: Soroush Farzin, Shichao Liu

2023 Dante Coccagnia, Domenic DiCenso, Mary Suckow Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School

"Evaluating Quality, Environmental Impact, and Economic Sustainability in Support of Benchmarking Efforts at Twelve Guns Brewing"
Advisors: Edward Gonsalves, Aaron Sakulich

 

2023 Jeffrey Marsh Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Copper Homeostasis in Salmonella enterica: cloning, expression, and purification of CopA transporter and CueO cuproprotein"

Advisor: José Argüello

2023 Jessica Wang Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Tiling of Prime and Composite Kirchhoff Graphs "

2023 David Datta Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

"Simulating Intestinal Microbiotic Interactions with Agent Based Modeling"
Advisors: Reeta Rao, Elizabeth Ryder

 

2023 Rachel Chan, Mackenzie Damon, Giulia Herszage Rocha, Kelly McDonald, Madelyn Thrasher Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

: "Device to Aid in Mechanical Ventilation of Obese Patients"
Advisor: Kristen Billiar, Joseph Fehribach

 

2023 Alex Boucher Jr Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Structural Analysis of Kek1's Interaction with the EGFR"
Advisor:  Joe Duffy

 

2023 Nicole Dombrowski Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Feasibility of Using a PIPs Detector for Neutron Detection"
Advisors: Marcel Blais, David Medich


 

2023 Madison Gass, Grace Jolin, Isabel Nearing, Kathryn Woodland Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Detecting Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Red Blood Cell Samples"
Advisors: Sakthikumar Ambady, Ahmet Can Sabuncu

 

2023 Alex Friedman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

"A Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Design"
Advisor: Yunus Telliel

 

2023 Alana Miska Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Development of Module for Fire Dynamics"
Advisor: James Urban

2023 Samantha Brown, Alyssa Magaha Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Creating a Multi-Robot, Multi-Human, Multi-Platform System"
Advisors: Jane Li, Carlo Pinciroli

 

2023 Abigail Berube Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Silanes Form Strong Bond to UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework Surfaces"

Advisor: Ronald Grimm

2023 Colby Frechette, Iris Morin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

Monitoring Ocean Microplastics Through Citizen Science"
Advisors: Laureen Elgert, George Heineman

 

2023 Melanie Castillo, Jacob Gassenheimer, Michael Maffeo, Kristen Stilin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"A Structural Redesign of Terminal E at Logan Airport"
Advisor: Tahar El-Korchi


 

2023 Arthur Ames, Charlotte Clark, Evelyn Dube, Declan Murphy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"Creating the Pwnable Claw Machine"
Advisors: Loris Fichera, Robert Walls

 

2023 Sirut Buasai, Jason Dykstra, Dillon McCarthy, Cindy Trac Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science

Advancing Diffusion Models for Human Activity Recognition"
Advisor: Elke Rundensteiner


 

2022 Silvana Reid Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Assessment of Nucleotide Labeling to Determine Organization of DNA Replication”

Advisor: Destin Heilman

2022 Anna Catlett, Dominick Gravante, Casey Willis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Repurposing PLA into 3D Printing Filament”   

Advisor: John Sullivan

2022 Kylie Belanger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

“Metaphase Chromosome Alignment is Sensitive to Dynein-Dependent Forces at the Cell Cortex”

Advisor: Amity Manning

2022 Brock Jolicoeur Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

“Development of a Microcollimator Array for Neutron Imaging”

Advisor: David Medich

2022 Justin Moy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

“Predicting Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Progression through the Neuromuscular Observational Datahub”

Advisor: Liz Ryder

2022 Elaine Chen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

“A Tsuboniwa: A Garden Dream” 

Advisors: Yunus Telliel, Jennifer deWinter

2022 Hannah Borges, Alexis Nichols, Shreya Puttagunta, Meghan Slaney, Chris Son Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

“Feeding Device for Premature Infants in Low Middle-Income Countries”

Advisors: Solomon Mensah, Dirk Albrecht

2022 Lilly-Beth Linnell Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

“Neuroanatomical Biomarkers for Suicidality in Dissociative Identity”

Advisors: Ben Nephew, Jeanine Skorinko

2022 Michael Berwanger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Photoredox Catalyzed C-H Acetoxylation Through Formal Hydride Abstraction”

Advisors: Stephen Kmiotek, Patricia Musacchio

2022 Benjamin Draper, Sawyer Wofford Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Stair Capable Robotic Vacuum”

Advisors: Siavash Farzan, Jing Xiao

2022 Stephanie Bishop, Peyton Graham, Isabelle Mellor Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

“Cross-Laminated Timber and Structural Resilience” 

Advisor: Leonard D. Albano

2022 William Cross, Adrian Curless, Alexander Simoneau Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

“Ultrafork and Focused KSM: Tools for Memory Optimization in Duplicate Containers” 

Advisor: Craig Shue

2022 Collin Broderick, Adrianna Staszewska Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science

“Defect Detection Automation for Metal Additive Manufacturing with Deep Learning”

Advisors: Diana Lados, Rodica Neamtu

2022 Cole Peterson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School

“A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets”

 Advisor: Alexander Smith

2022 Maya Flores, Colin Stevens, Devon Poisson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

“5G User Equipment Selective Jammer” 

Advisors: Alexander Wyglinski

2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

“Lead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems 

Advisor: Jeanine Dudley

2022 Adraesteia Wong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

“Never Set in Stone: The Creative Process in Transformative Fiction”   

Advisor: Kate McIntyre

2022 Clarissa Casilla Luzardo, Hannah Gelman, Alejandro Gerov Armas, Abigail Perlee Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

“WPI Dining Services Delivery Plan”

Advisor: Sara Saberi

2022 Lexi Ferrini, Allison Lambert, Donovan Robilard Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

“Copula Modeling: “An Application to Workers' Compensation Claims”

Advisors: Jon Abraham, Barry Posterro

2022 Charles Baldwin, Jasmine Duerk, Kaamil Lokhandwala, Dylan Valev Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

“Moonsighted”

Advisors: Farley Chery, Gillian Smith

2022 Tyler Lizotte and Harrison Smith Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

“Design of a 6U Cubesat for an Ionospheric Mission”

Advisor: Nikolaos A. Gatsonis 

2022 Christopher Guerrette, Natalie Mohn Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School

“Development of a Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning System for Gompei’s Goat Cheese”

Advisors: Jim Ryan

2022 Darius Luo, Erin Venard, and Hannah Whitney Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering

“WPI Campus Center Feasibility Study for LEED O+M Certification”

Advisors: Leonard Albano, Soroush Farzin, and Shichao Liu.

2022 Ben Gobler Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

“The Calkin-Wilf Tree; Extensions and Applications”

Advisors: Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius

2021 Emma E. Burleson, Annemarie N. Eastwood, Lauren O. Mitchell, Molly W. Youngs Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

Acid Leachate Active Treatment Pilot System for Cooledge Brook, MA

2021 Olivia Lattanzi Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

Putting the “Other” Center Stage: Examining Modern Language and Nuances of Representation within Theatre