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Robotics Engineering

 

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Congratulations to all our 2021 Robotics Engineering students! Every year we typically announce awards and honors during our graduation reception -- this year, with our students and faculty at home and socially distanced, we're honored to announce our award winners and RBE honorees online.


Major Qualifying Projects

 

Our virtual Project Presentation Day was on April 30th, and our students did a magnificent job presenting their projects via live webinar. WPI's Project Presentation Day is the culmination of students' year-long project work and intended to be the final synthesis of their time at WPI, and as such there are several honors available to those who participate.

 

The winner of the Provost's MQP Award in Robotics Engineering is:

MQP 31 - Partial Hand Prosthetic

Mia Buccowich (BME) and Andrew Strauss (RBE)

Advised by Prof. Marko Popovic

Watch their project video in the link provided!

 

Provost's MQP Award Honorable Mentions:

MQP 3 - Optically Driven Robots

Kyle Lang (ME), Brandon Persons (RBE)

Advised by Profs. Balaji Panchapakesan and Loris Fichera

 

MQP 5 - Robotic Waste Sorting V2

Laura Bünger (ME), Isabelle Chan (RBE/ME), Nicole Cotto (CS), Maya Sun (CS)

Advised by Profs. Berk Calli and Sarah Wodin-Schwartz

MQP 19 - Autonomous Drone Pollination

Connor Craigie (RBE), Nathan Stallings (RBE), Peter Guglielmino (RBE), Zeynep Seker (RBE/ME)

Advised by Profs. Carlo Pinciroli, Greg Lewin, and Cagdas Onal

 

MQP 20 - Multi-Modal Locomotion Robot

Andrew Euredjian(RBE/CS), Ankur Gupta (CS/MA), Revant Mahajan (RBE/CS), Dante Muzila (ME)

Advised by Profs. Michael Gennert, Mahdi Agheli, and Randy Paffenroth

 

In extenuating circumstances and/or if there are teams who performed with merit equal to the Provost's Award winner, the RBE Department may choose to give Robotics Engineering Department Award.

 

The winner of this year's Robotics Engineering Department Award is:

 

MQP 2 - SCREAM 3.0: Super-elastic Continuum Robot for Endoscopic Articulation and Manipulation

Sabrina Liu (RBE), Phillip Abell (ME), Samuel Johnson (RBE), Zhongchuan Xu (RBE)

Advised by Profs. Loris Fichera and Yuxiang Shawn Liu

 

Finally, to celebrate the work our teams have put into the multiple aspects of their presentation, the Robotics Engineering department is giving awards to our Best Poster and Best Video. The winner of Best Poster will have their poster printed and on display the next academic year, and the Best Video will be displayed on our website's main page carousel for a year.

 

The winner of this year's Best Poster is:

MQP 22 - Needle Intervention System with Mirror Ultrasound Imaging

Isaac Abouaf (RBE), Aditya Malik (RBE)

Advised by Prof. Haichong Zhang

Sponsor: Dr. Igor Sorokin (UMass Medical School)

(Click here to see the poster!)

 

The winner of this year's Best Video is:

MQP 2 - SCREAM 3.0: Super-elastic Continuum Robot for Endoscopic Articulation and Manipulation

Sabrina Liu (RBE), Phillip Abell (ME), Samuel Johnson (RBE), Zhongchuan Xu (RBE)

Advised by Profs. Loris Fichera and Yuxiang Shawn Liu

(Click on the link above to see the video!)

 


Outstanding Students

 

Every year we also honor several students who exemplify the best of Robotics Engineering. Please join us in congratulating the following winners:

 

Salisbury Prize

Sabrina Liu (RBE)

Kalani Picho (RBE/ME)

(Information about the Salisbury Prize)

 

Outstanding Senior Award

Isabelle Chan

Outstanding Senior Award Honorable Mentions

Revant Mahajan

Zhongchuan Xu

Outstanding Junior Award

Brian Katz

Outstanding Service Award

Zeynep Şeker

 

Our thanks and congratulations to all of you!