Provost's MQP Awards
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 |
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| 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 " |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 2023 | Lena Dias, Harmoni Larrabee, Mitchel Tanguay | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | Neurotype Café" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 2023 | Alex Boucher Jr | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | Structural Analysis of Kek1's Interaction with the EGFR" |
| 2023 | Nicole Dombrowski | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Feasibility of Using a PIPs Detector for Neutron Detection" |
| 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" |
| 2023 | Alex Friedman | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | "A Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Design" |
| 2023 | Alana Miska | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Development of Module for Fire Dynamics" |
| 2023 | Samantha Brown, Alyssa Magaha | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Creating a Multi-Robot, Multi-Human, Multi-Platform System" |
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| 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" |
| 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" |
| 2023 | Arthur Ames, Charlotte Clark, Evelyn Dube, Declan Murphy | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "Creating the Pwnable Claw Machine" |
| 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" |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |