The Volgenau School of Engineering Undergraduate Research Celebration took place on Monday, April 10, 2017. Students presented their mentored projects for exhibition before the entire Mason community. Industry representatives served as real-world judges for the competition, and the grand prizes included $1,000 cash awards from Dean Ball. The competition showcased a variety of research, design, scholarly work, and individual/group projects.
The event was sponsored by:
Applied Systems Analytics, LLC
The Beck Foundation
Charles C. Joyce, Chairman, Volgenau School of Engineering Advisory Board
Lisa M. Donnan, Volgenau School of Engineering Advisory Board
Dovel Technologies
Volgenau School of Engineering Corporate Partners
Volgenau School of Engineering
Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, & Research (OSCAR)
The award winners were:
Opportunity to present to the Dean’s Advisory Board
Christopher Pertsch V - Systems Engineering
Development of an In-Situ Total Phosphorus Analyzer for Aqueous Environments
Dora Obodo, Antarius Daniel, Ahmad Mia, David Le, Lan-Khanh Tran, Qudsia Javid - Bioengineering
Spinal Cannulation Automated Navigation (SCAN) Robotic System
Keynote Presentations
Naomi Folta, Gus Hernandez, Richard Regalado, Alberto Perez, Shawn McElwain – Mechanical Engineering
Vehicle Lean Recovery System
Benjamin McCall, Aryan Toughiry, Puja Patel, Joel Williams, Rohini Shah – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gunshot Detection Using the Active Shooter Tactical Response Assistant (ASTRA)
People’s Choice Award
Bradley Boccuzzi, Zonara Najmi, Salma Mahmoud, Emmanuel Tagoe, Yiwei Fang, Jason Willis – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Swarm Robotics
Outstanding Project Awards
Marissa Howard, Sameen Yusuf, Sara Sharif, Rohit Madhu - Bioengineering
Application of Hydrogel Nanoparticles for a Rapid Latent Tuberculosis Diagnostic Test
Francisca Wood, Morgan Sisk, Forrest Bussler, Anuradna Nagulapati, John O'Brien - Bioengineering
VorSpiel: A wearable technology for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children
Dora Obodo, Antarius Daniel, Ahmad Mia, David Le, Lan-Khanh Tran, Qudsia Javid - Bioengineering
Spinal Cannulation Automated Navigation (SCAN) Robotic System
Alayna Bigalbal – Civil Engineering
Potential Impact of Hurricane-induced Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise to the Chesapeake Bay Natural Preserves
Kostyantyn Shcherbina, Connor Stapp, Erin Shulte, Omar Sangid, Zepher Begnell - Bioengineering
A Touch Screen-based Application for Stroke Rehabilitation
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Osaze Shears
Real Estate Price Prediction Through Machine Learning
Jeremy Johnston
Smart Sensor Webs for Environmental Monitoring
Marissa Howard, Sameen Yusuf, Sara Sharif, Rohit Madhu
Application of Hydrogel Nanoparticles for a Rapid Latent Tuberculosis Diagnostic Test
Kostyantyn Shcherbina, Connor Stapp, Erin Schulte, Omar Sangid, Zepher Begnell
A Touch Screen-based Application for Stroke Rehabilitiation
Eadom Dessalene
The Amazon Robotics Challenge: Automating the Warehouse
Oliver Douglas, Jonathan Gorman, Rishi Verma
Design of a 2 kW DC Motor Controller
Omar El-Ghazawi, Dilpreet Singh, Htoo Win, Gantulga Batbold, Mohammed Almazrooei
AC-Coupled Turboelectric Propulsion System Simulator
Keynote Speaker - Benjamin McCall, Aryan Toughiry, Puja Patel, Joel Williams, Rohini Shah
Gunshot Detection Using the Active Shooter Tactical Response Assistant (ASTRA)
John Wong, Michael Au, Elvis Yapura, Alexis Wang
Light Intensity Calibrator for THELMA
Keynote Speaker - Naomi Folta, Gustavo Hernandez, Richard Regalado, Alberto Perez, Shawn McElwain
Vehicle Lean Recovery System
Levern Currie
Cultured Neuronal Network Bot
Francisca Wood, Morgan Sisk, Forrest Bussler, Anuradha Nagulapati, John O'Brien
VorSpiel: A wearable technology for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children
Ankit Malhotra, Sai Risshie Makineni, Jay Faganiya
Power Gym
Alayna Bigalbal
Potential Impact of Hurricane-induced Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise to the Chesapeake Bay Natural Preserves
Ryan Davidson, Oscar Jaramillo, Abdullah Alkhudair, Chirag Sharma, Ahmed Amkor, Borhan Fanayan
Intra-Vehicle CAN Bus ECU Signal Fingerprinting for Intrusion Detection
Eden Haney, Nikita Chub, Jeffrey Tucker, Ronald Pomposini, Jason Haun
Transmitter for a Miniature Satellite
Olga Lorenz
Rubrika - a web application for faster rubric creation, grading, commenting, and more
Osaze Shears
Real Estate Price Prediction Through Machine Learning
Jeremy Johnston
Smart Sensor Webs for Environmental Monitoring
Marissa Howard, Sameen Yusuf, Sara Sharif, Rohit Madhu
Application of Hydrogel Nanoparticles for a Rapid Latent Tuberculosis Diagnostic Test
Kostyantyn Shcherbina, Connor Stapp, Erin Schulte, Omar Sangid, Zepher Begnell
A Touch Screen-based Application for Stroke Rehabilitiation
Eadom Dessalene
The Amazon Robotics Challenge: Automating the Warehouse
Oliver Douglas, Jonathan Gorman, Rishi Verma
Design of a 2 kW DC Motor Controller
Omar El-Ghazawi, Dilpreet Singh, Htoo Win, Gantulga Batbold, Mohammed Almazrooei
AC-Coupled Turboelectric Propulsion System Simulator
Keynote Speaker - Benjamin McCall, Aryan Toughiry, Puja Patel, Joel Williams, Rohini Shah
Gunshot Detection Using the Active Shooter Tactical Response Assistant (ASTRA)
John Wong, Michael Au, Elvis Yapura, Alexis Wang
Light Intensity Calibrator for THELMA
Keynote Speaker - Naomi Folta, Gustavo Hernandez, Richard Regalado, Alberto Perez,Shawn McElwain
Vehicle Lean Recovery System
Levern Currie
Cultured Neuronal Network Bot
Francisca Wood, Morgan Sisk, Forrest Bussler, Anuradha Nagulapati, John O'Brien
VorSpiel: A wearable technology for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children
Ankit Malhotra, Sai Risshie Makineni, Jay Faganiya
Power Gym
Alayna Bigalbal
Potential Impact of Hurricane-induced Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise to the Chesapeake Bay Natural Preserves
Ryan Davidson, Oscar Jaramillo, Abdullah Alkhudair, Chirag Sharma, Ahmed Amkor, Borhan Fanayan
Intra-Vehicle CAN Bus ECU Signal Fingerprinting for Intrusion Detection
Eden Haney, Nikita Chub, Jeffrey Tucker, Ronald Pomposini, Jason Haun
Transmitter for a Miniature Satellite
Olga Lorenz
Rubrika - a web application for faster rubric creation, grading, commenting, and more
Zachary Ferguson
Texture Seam Minimization
Olivia Franjie, Laura Glew, Srivalli Kommaraju, HyunTaek Lim
A Tri-Planar Spinal Alignment Measuring Device for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Chris Rios, Lauren Hirt, Shaun Meyer, Vy Tran, Kaitlyn Scott
Remote Video Estimation of Blood Pressure Employing Differential Pulse Transit Time
Mona Elkholy, Abdelrahman Gouda, Racha Salha, Yasser Alhindi, Ella Novoselsky
VioArm- A Customized Prosthetic for Playing the Violin
Christopher Pertsch V
Development of an In-Situ Total Phosphorus Analyzer for Aqueous Environments
Clara Currier
The OPM Cyber Breach as Engineering Failure
Kian Ghaffari, Coleman Mullins, Christian Koudelka
Flexible Acoustic Sensor for Continuous Monitoring of Arteriovenous Graft Patency
John Carroll, Caroline Abramson, Chris Margopoulos, Faie Almofeez
Design of a System to Optimize Contrail Generation
Wesley Chan, Ian Brierly, Md Ashraf Ansary, Cong Do, Robert Nguyen, Trac Truong
Reaction-Wheel Driven Aquatic Vessel
Bradley Boccuzzi, Zonara Najmi, Salma Mahmoud, Emmanuel Tagoe, Yiwei Fang, Jason Willis
Swarm Robotics
Dora Obodo, Antarius Daniel, Ahmad Mia, David Le, Lan-Khanh Tran, Qudsia Javid
Spinal Cannulation Automated Navigation (SCAN) Robotic System
Kristine Mosuela, Tri Nguyen, Mohamed Diraz, Kevin Izadpanah, Joe Lartey
Developing a mobile app "Cric" to incentivize bike riding
Mohammad Rana, Prakruthi Karuna
CitizenHelper: A Streaming Analytics System to Mine Citizen and Web Data for Nonprofit Organization
Iman Gulati, Abbas Idris, Neil Jacob, Brian Khong
Blockage Detection in Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Systems through Interferometry
Taimur Sohrab, Gideon Anderson, Ayman Al Handali, Kishn Parbadia, Rafael Gomes, Conner Eveker
Digital Theremin Violin
Morgan Yang, Thomas Chrissley, Connor Maloy, Anthony Mason
Design of a Marine Debris Removal System
Daniel Howe
Modelling Dynamical Systems using MATLAB SIMSCAPE
Adam LaFemina, Sohail Mukhtarzada, Robert Yu, Ayo Raymond, Kyler Sparks
Supercomputer Robot Controller
Zachary Ferguson
Texture Seam Minimization
Olivia Franjie, Laura Glew, Srivalli Kommaraju, HyunTaek Lim
A Tri-Planar Spinal Alignment Measuring Device for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Chris Rios, Lauren Hirt, Shaun Meyer, Vy Tran, Kaitlyn Scott
Remote Video Estimation of Blood Pressure Employing Differential Pulse Transit Time
Mona Elkholy, Abdelrahman Gouda, Racha Salha, Yasser Alhindi, Ella Novoselsky
VioArm- A Customized Prosthetic for Playing the Violin
Christopher Pertsch V
Development of an In-Situ Total Phosphorus Analyzer for Aqueous Environments
Clara Currier
The OPM Cyber Breach as Engineering Failure
Kian Ghaffari, Coleman Mullins, Christian Koudelka
Flexible Acoustic Sensor for Continuous Monitoring of Arteriovenous Graft Patency
John Carroll, Caroline Abramson, Chris Margopoulos, Faie Almofeez
Design of a System to Optimize Contrail Generation
Wesley Chan, Ian Brierly, Md Ashraf Ansary, Cong Do, Robert Nguyen, Trac Truong
Reaction-Wheel Driven Aquatic Vessel
Bradley Boccuzzi, Zonara Najmi, Salma Mahmoud, Emmanuel Tagoe, Yiwei Fang, Jason Willis
Swarm Robotics
Dora Obodo, Antarius Daniel, Ahmad Mia, David Le, Lan-Khanh Tran, Qudsia Javid
Spinal Cannulation Automated Navigation (SCAN) Robotic System
Kristine Mosuela, Tri Nguyen, Mohamed Diraz, Kevin Izadpanah, Joe Lartey
Developing a mobile app "Cric" to incentivize bike riding
Mohammad Rana, Prakruthi Karuna
CitizenHelper: A Streaming Analytics System to Mine Citizen and Web Data for Nonprofit Organization
Iman Gulati, Abbas Idris, Neil Jacob, Brian Khong
Blockage Detection in Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Systems through Interferometry
Taimur Sohrab, Gideon Anderson, Ayman Al Handali, Kishn Parbadia, Rafael Gomes, Conner Eveker
Digital Theremin Violin
Morgan Yang, Thomas Chrissley, Connor Maloy, Anthony Mason
Design of a Marine Debris Removal System
Daniel Howe
Modelling Dynamical Systems using MATLAB SIMSCAPE
Adam LaFemina, Sohail Mukhtarzada, Robert Yu, Ayo Raymond, Kyler Sparks
Supercomputer Robot Controller