Design EXPO Showcases Engineering Student Talent

Best Overall Project and People's Choice

The Adapta-Bowl team won both the Best Overall Project and the People's Choice Award. Pictured (from left): Dr. Joseph Samosky, Course Director, The Art of Making; Alex Hascall, Karson Curran, Lily Tibaldi, and Nickolai Miller.

Each semester, students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering get the chance to show off their creativity and highlight their designs at the Design EXPO, held this year on December 9, 2022. Students prepared their displays showcasing their work from the School’s Capstone Design courses or highlighted concepts and prototypes from the Product Realization, Medical Product Prototyping and The Art of Making courses.

The students presented their projects, and judges from industry visited the booths in turn to talk with students and view their work.

This year’s winners are:

Best Overall Project
Adapta-Bowl: Physical Education Equipment for Disabled Students
Karson Curran, Alex Hascall, Nickolai Miller, Lily Tibaldi

People’s Choice Award
Adapta-Bowl: Physical Education Equipment for Disabled Students
Karson Curran, Alex Hascall, Nickolai Miller, Lily Tibaldi

Department Awards

Bioengineering

1st Place Resolving the Endoscopic’s Thumb
Alyssa Long, Heather Shannon, Monica Lebaudy, Garrett Martin, Nishant Chitluru, Melody Whittaker, Robert Patrick Donahue, Carley Brimmeier

2nd Place (TIE) Automated Syringe Drug Push
Tatyana Reese, Cambell France, Alyssa Aguglia, Himavarsha Yerraguntla, Alex Ezerins, Tianyang Li, Arvind Venkatraman

2nd Place (TIE) EDS Shoulder Reduction Trainer
Yu-hsuan Chao, Karhik Iyer, Jeremy Reimenschneider, Natalie Danielsen, Young Kim, Eric Shaker, Molly Bevenour

Civil and Environmental Engineering

1st Place Tiny House Community
Isabel Lee, Kyle Robinson, Dylan McGettigan, Jason Puglisi

2nd Place Frick Park Bridge
Joseph Sciulli, Isabella Cicco, Lindsay Popovich, Christopher Tirpak

3rd Place Strip District Park Project
Anna Goetz, Logan Edmonds, Nicholas Banko, Nat Clementi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

1st Place Tendon-Driven Soft Hand Exoskeleton
Daniel Braunstein, Tyler Sheetz, Bryan Hess, Michael Etter

2nd Place (TIE) Animal Identification and Localization
David Jones, Aurimas Balciunas, Shane Raible

2nd Place (TIE) Containment Picker
Michael Nowak, Bruce Jia, Zachary Hartman, Ben Tanay

Industrial Engineering

1st Place Small Supplier Visibility Risk Assessment Dashboard
Josh Puleo, Brady Regan, Victoria Michalenko, Madeline Kingsbury

2nd Place It Takes THYME: A Time Study and Simulation Modeling Project at Paragon Foods
Joaquin Hollero, Emma Schuszler, Hannah Baluch, Anaya Joynes

3rd Place JADCO Safety Dashboard and Storage Rack Design
Elizabeth Petley, Victoria Likovich, Christopher Paladino, Evan Mancuso

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

1st Place Filtration Testing Setup for 3D Printing Porous Metal Filters
Siji Li, Michael Marynchak, Peter DeNicola

2nd Place (TIE) Integrating Sports into STEM Education for 6th - 12th Grade Black Students: Basketball Sleeve
Christopher Rodi, Halima Morafa, Rajiv Philip, Brian Karabin

2nd Place (TIE) Extreme Heating Rate Processing of Amorphous Metal Ribbons using Static and Reel-to-Reel Processing Methods
Benjamin Schneck

The Art of Making: Hands-On System Design and Engineering

1st Place Adapta-Bowl: Physical Education Equipment for Disabled Students
Karson Curran, Alex Hascall, Nickolai Miller, Lily Tibaldi

2nd Place Tangible Language: Promoting Independent Communication for Students with Impairments
Oday Abushaban, Haajar Ahmad-Ali, Shreyo Das, Hessan Jafarah, Ronald Musto, Angel Pampena

Product Realization

1st Place Kensington e-Lock
Liam Diefes, Yinhao Qian, Lucas Ramsey, Joseph Szlavik, Alyssa Zito

2nd Place Security Lock
Sam Hunn, Aaron McVaugh, Anna Strauss, Arvind Venkatraman

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