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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| 2015 | Paulo Carvalho, Sean Weaver, Anurag Kesari | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Phlebot: The Robotic Phlebotomist" Advisors: Patrick Flaherty, Gregory Fischer |
| 2015 | Jose Andrade, Austin Holliday, William Michalski, Juan Hernan Parra, Veronica Rivero Gorrin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Growing Power Vertical Farm" Advisors: Leonard Albano, Leffi Cewe-Malloy |
| 2015 | Angelia Giannone | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2015 | Zachary Arnold, Danielle LeRose | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "Smartphone Gait Inference" Advisors: Emmanuel Agu, Joseph Petruccelli |
| 2015 | Christopher Hango | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "The Five Stages of Grief: A Composition and Performance for Brass Ensemble" Advisor: Douglas Weeks |
| 2015 | Michael Derryberry, Jermiah McCarthy | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection" Advisor: Xinming Huang |
| 2015 | Daniel Gendin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Mathematical Model of Laminate Materials" Advisor: Burt Tilley |
| 2015 | Melissa Dery, Kyle Gerlack, Zachery Johnson, Maya Rhinehard | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | "Optimizing CoMag System Operations: Billerica, Mass., Wastewater Treatment Plant" Advisors: John Bergendahl, Jeanine Plummer |
| 2015 | Daniele Mucaro | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | |
| 2015 | Andrew Beaupre, Tyle Collins, Aras Nehir Keskin, Cody Woodard-Wallace | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "Design and Production of a 3-D Printed Wireless Hexapod" Advisor: David Planchard |
| 2015 | Evan White | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | |
| 2015 | Brian Eccles, Brendan McLeod, Timothy Murcko, Thomas Watson, Mitchell Wills | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "WALRUS Rover" Advisors: Sonia Chernova, Taskin Padir, Ken Stafford |
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| 2015 | Mark Mantell | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2015 | Angelica Zawada, Tyler Alexander, Nysa Casha | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | "Determinants of Success in WPI Student-Led Organizations" Advisors: Jim Doyle, Sharon Wulf |
| 2015 | Rachel Blakely | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology | |
| 2015 | Yan Zhang | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | |
| 2015 | Dusty Cyr, Radu Morar, Joseph Sperry | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Helicopter Sling Load Stabilization with Active Control" Advisor: Raghvendra Cowlagi, David Olinger |
| 2015 | Jennifer Garbarino, Sarah Kaptur | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Biochemical and Myosin Xi in the Moss Physcomitrella patens" Advisors: Destin Heilman, Luis Vidali |
| 2009 | Michael Morin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Educational Uses of COMSOL Multiphysics Carbon Dioxide Absorption with Chemical Reaction" |
| 2009 | Charlie Mezak | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "Life in the Ledges" Advisor: Constance Clark |
| 2009 | Alisha Begin, Stepen Shin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Adsorption of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Using ZSM-5" Advisors: Robert Thompson, John Bergendahl |
| 2009 | Daniel Tennant, Julia Berg, Joseph Strong | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | "Petrified" Advisor: Robert W. Lindeman |
| 2009 | David Munger | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "The Use of Photoresist Derived Carbon as Microelectrodes for Genetic Assays" Advisor: Susan Zhou |
| 2009 | Elisabeth Beinke, Keilin Bickar, Joshua Doyle, Alexander Schwartz | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | "Memory Dash - a Multiplayer iPhone Game" Advisor: David Finkel |
| 2009 | Daniel W. Carney | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Singlet Oxygen Trapping Porphyrins" Advisor: Robert E. Connors |
| 2009 | Samantha G. McGill | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Manufacturing Engineering | "Market and Business Analysis of Microthreads" Advisors: Helen Vassallo, George Pins |
| 2009 | Jessie A. Brasefield, Douglas K. Tischer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Exploring Apoptin's Anti-Cancer Ability: Uncoupling Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling and Multimerization" |
| 2009 | Matthew Dailey, Ilan Shomorony | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Physically Unclonable Functions" Advisors: William Martin, Berk Sunar |
| 2009 | Karen O'Sullivan, Phyllis Wall | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "The Effects of Warm Mix Asphalt Additives on Recycled Asphalt" Advisors: Rajib Mallick, Mindjiang Tao |
| 2009 | Marc Balboa, Ivo Dobrev, Ryan Fosset | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "MEMS for Real Time Imaging Applications" Advisor: Cosme Furlong-Vazquez |
| 2009 | Jennifer Ann Himottu, Alyson J Stuer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Analysis of Bridge Connections: A Comparative Study of Bridge & Joint Design" Advisor: Leonardo Albano |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Gould | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem in 3 Dimensions" Advisor: P.K. Aravind |
| 2009 | Christopher John Pauli, Matthew Clark, Zachary Tetreault, Justin Thomas | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Green Guide for Roads Rating System" Advisors: Frederick Hart, Rajib Mallick |
| 2009 | Eric Andresen | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | "Rhetoric of Global Warming: Multimodal Arguments in Public and Scientific Contexts" Advisors: Lorraine D. Higgins, Chrysanthe Demetry |
| 2009 | Krista Leigh Dietz, Alexandra Valeria Kulinkina | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Brackish Water Pretreatment" Advisor: Jeanine Plummer |
| 2009 | Brian C. Benson, Neal K. Humphrey | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Sand-Swimming Robot" Advisors: Stephan Koehier, Kenneth Stafford |
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| 2009 | Jake Cabrera, Christopher TingHin Cheu, Natasha Deschene, Gaelen Fay Magee | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Structural Design of the WPI Recreation Center" Advisor: Tahar El-Korchi |
| 2009 | Nicholas Amendolare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | "Recommendations for Improving Thermal Efficiency in Massachusetts Low-Income Housing" Advisor: Robert Krueger |
| 2009 | Jeremy Chapman, Nathaniel Law | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Mechanical Autonomous Jellyfish" Advisor: Michael Demetriou |
| 2009 | Aaron Holroyd, Punsak Koakiettaveechai, Brett Ponsler | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "Hand-Eye Coordination in a Humanoid Robot" Advisor: Brad Miller, Charles Rich |
| 2009 | Daniel Asselin, David Beavers, Stephan Jakubowski | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Investigation of Plasma Charging Effects" Advisor: John Blandino |
| 2009 | Christopher M. Drouin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "The Mindful Reader: Learning- Augmented News Aggregation" Advisor: David C. Brown |
| 2009 | Shreelekha Mandal | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Functional Specificity of Lipid Elongases in Development" Advisor: Joseph Duffy |
| 2009 | Allison P. Smyth | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Drag-Aid MK, Race Car Crash Detection" Advisor: Stephen J. Bitar |
| 2009 | Meghan Pasquali, Nicholas Pelletier, Jennifer Richards, Jonathan Shoemaker | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Development of a New System to Treat Hip Dislocation in Canines" Advisor: Glenn Gaudette |
| 2009 | Tahsin Hassan, Vasil K. Savov, Alihusain Y. Sirohiwala | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "An Interactive Application Demo for the AD8295" Advisor: John McNeil |
| 2009 | Nicholas Alden, Zachary Humerick, Andrew Teixeira | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Molten Salt Gasification of Biomass" Advisors: Ravindra Datta, James Dittami |
| 2009 | Jonathan E. Hayden, Hiroshi Mita, Jason R. Ogasian | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Autonomous Mapping Robot" Advisors: R. James Duckworth, David Cyganski |
| 2009 | Eric Connelly | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Imaging L-Alanine and Inosine-Induced Germination of Bacillus Anthracis Using Atomic Force Microscopy" Advisor: Terri Camesano |
| 2009 | Nicholas Amendolare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Conserving Energy through Fuel Poverty Mapping in Worcester, Massachusetts" Advisor: Robert Krueger |