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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Kataryzna Koscielska, Oliver Salmon | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Mapping of HTLV-1 Tax Functional Domain Conferring Cellular Senescence" Advisor: Destin Heilman |
| 2008 | Chelsea Bierkan, Courtney Rheault, Katharine Woodman | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Adaptive Reuse Plan for the Worcester County Courthouse" Advisor: Leonard ALbano |
| 2008 | Neal Orman | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "GPU Optimization of an Existing Free-Viewpoint Video System" Advisor: Robert Lindeman |
| 2008 | Briana Morey, Ravi Vasudevan | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "100W Class D Audio Amplifier" Advisors: John McNeil, Andrew Klein |
| 2008 | Jorge Alejandro, Muzhtaba Islam, Thomas Niemczycki | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Automation of a Telescope Imaging System" Advisor: John Orr |
| 2008 | Sanouri (Fernando) Ursprung | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "Battling Malaria: A History of International Health Aid" Advisors: William A.B. Addison, Peter Hansen |
| 2008 | Dana R. Asplund, Kalun Fu, Yilmaz Kiymaz, Timothy Loughlin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | "The Alligator: A Video Game History of a Civil War Submarine" Advisor: Robert Lindeman |
| 2008 | Daniel Capozzo, Robert Groezinger, Keet-Fung (Frankie) Ng, Marisa Siegel | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Manufacturing Engineering | "Generation Y, Baby Boomers and Web Design: Usability Through Eye Tracking" Advisor: Soussan Djamasbi |
| 2008 | Michael Demers, Ryan Lehrmitt, Robert Pantalone | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Manufacturing Engineering | "High-efficiency Coolant Nozzle Design for Abrasive Wire Wafer Slicing Machine" Advisor: Yiming Rong |
| 2008 | Benjamin Dwyer, Martin Maccaferri, Christian Wester | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "Design and Realization of a Laser Holographic Otoscope" Advisor: Cosme Furlong |
| 2008 | Jared Buhler, Troy Coverstone, Nicholas Cummings, Siobhan Fleming, Thomas Huleatt, Theodore McDonald, Patrick Renaud, Megan Yocom | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "W.A.R.R.I.O.R.S. III – WPI AIAA Research Rocket" Advisor: John Blandino |
| 2008 | Justin Carmichael | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "DC Glow-Discharge Plasma Gun" Advisor: Rafael Garcia |
| 2008 | Christina Ernst | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Structure/Function Studies of kekkon5, a Putative Novel Component of the Cellular Adhesion Machinery" Advisor: Joseph Duffy |
| 2008 | Belin Beyoglu, Martin Ivanonv | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | "Technical Analysis of CAN SLIM Stocks" Advisor: Michael Radzicki |
| 2008 | Lisa Marie DiTroia, Heather Hassett, Justine Roberts | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Microthreads for Stem Cell Delivery in Cardiac Applications" Advisors: Glenn Gaudette, Marsha Rolle |
| 2008 | Denise Gleason, Kristoffer Jensen, Garima Painuly | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Proton Exchange Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Enhanced Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance" Advisor: Ravindra Datta |
| 2008 | Catherine Casey, Katie Hudon, Elizabeth Stewart | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Design of a Multipollutant Sorbent for Coal Gasification" Advisors: Jennifer Wilcox, Erdem Sasmaz |
| 2008 | Kevin Gagnon | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Synthesis of Multipyridyl Ligands for Multipoint Photodimerization" Advisor: Venkat Thalladi |
| 2007 | Eugene Douglass (Chemistry) | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Synthesis and Quantitative Testing of Electrochemical and Optical Sensors in Surface Formats" Advisor: Grant McGimpsey |
| 2007 | Kerri George (Biochemistry) | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "The Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Osteoclast Differentiation" Advisor: Jill Rulfs |
| 2007 | Todor Kiryazov, Gregory McHale, Daniel Mezynski, Phillip Sweeney | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | "ComputerWorld Survey System" Advisors: David Brown, Diane Strong |
| 2007 | Jeffrey Pelligrino, John Scimone, Kaushal Shrestha | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "AMISR RF Amplifier Test Station" Advisor: John Orr |
| 2007 | Brian Foley, Sean Hallinan, Hans Jensen | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Non—Invasive Metal Detection" Advisors: Stephen Bitar, Reinhold Ludwig, Sergey Makarov |
| 2007 | Kevin Bobrowski, Christopher Korzeniowski, Francisco de Molina Cobo | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Search and Rescue Robot" Advisor: James Duckworth |
| 2007 | John Bosch, Joseph Hsu, Erin Mazuera, Kelly Osberg | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Demographic Preferences in Web Design: Usability Testing Through Eye Tracking" Advisors: Soussan Djamasbi, Thomas Tullis |
| 2007 | Brandon Germain, Robert Shaw | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | "From FPS into Strategy CTF in UT2k4" Advisor: David Finkel |
| 2007 | Andrew Port, Jeremy Ristau | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "One—Dimensional Viscoelastic Cell Motility Model" Advisor: Roger Lui |
| 2007 | Jessica Clark, Sean Mulready | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Optimal Portfolio Analysis with Turnover Constraints" Advisor: Arthur Heinricher |
| 2007 | Samuel Feller, Nathan Malatesta, Nicholas McMahon | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | Advisor: Kenneth Stafford |
| 2007 | Colin DeGraf, Keeley Stevens | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Lateral Force Calibration for Probe Microscopy" Advisor: Nancy Burnham |
| 2007 | Rachel Berg, Matthew Clark | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Analysis of an Onboard Infrared Camera Assembly" Advisor: Nikos Gatsonis |
| 2007 | Stephanie LeGare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | "Drawing Back the Curtains: Finding New Ways to Assess and Improve Tutoring Services in the Writing Center at WPI" Advisor: Lorraine Higgins |
| 2007 | Donna Davidson | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "Inhibition of HIV—1 Tat—Induced Inflammation by the NF—kB Subunit RelB" Advisor: David Adams |
| 2007 | Charles Gammal (ME/ECE), Erika Hall, Rachelle Horwitz, Stephanie LeGare | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "A Device for Monitoring the Severity of Peripheral Edema" Advisors: Kristen Billiar, Yitzhak Mendelson, John McNeill, Raymond Dunn |
| 2007 | Priya Jayachandran | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Kinetics of Nanoparticle—Based DNA Hybridization" Advisor: Susan Zhou |