Fall 2025 Engineering Project Review
Team 1
Corrosion Detection & Analysis Robot (CDAR)
Students: Andrew Smith (EE), Jennifer Callan (ME), John Loulo (ME), Jonathan Farnham (CE), Paolo Cacio (ME)
Advisor: Mahdi Farahikia
Stakeholder: Echem Consultants LLC, Brandon Torres
Description: CDAR is an autonomous corrosion-detection robot designed to survey concrete structures in a user-defined grid. Using a half-cell sensor, it maps potential differences on the concrete surface to identify areas of possible rebar corrosion. This system enhances inspection speed, accuracy, and repeatability while reducing technician workload.
Team 2
Tabletop Printed Circuit Board Tester
Students: Alec McCormack (EE), Martin Aguilar Solano (EE), Philip Hanhurst (CE), Cody Higbie (ME), Troy Maurizzio (ME), Menachem Leitner (ME)
Advisor: Kerry Ford
Description: The goal of this project is to develop a system capable of testing a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) for opens and shorts. This ensures the integrity of the PCB, and confirms that there are no major manufacturing defects during the fabrication process.
Team 3
Design of a Customizable and Localizable Flood Advisory System
Students: Edward Atristain (CE), Briana Bonilla(EE), Michael Macri (ME), Aileen Pastrana (ME), Logan Rodriguez (ME), Yuriy Yakymiv (EE)
Advisor: Julio J. Gonzalez
Description: A vertical pipe is installed with its bottom positioned slightly above the normal water level of the river. At each one-foot interval along the pipe, a water-level sensor is mounted facing outward. Inside the pipe, there is an STM32 development board equipped with Bluetooth capability, along with all necessary electrical wiring and a power bank. The top and bottom caps ensure that the pipe is waterproof. A mobile app is installed on devices to receive notifications when the river water rises to the level of each sensor.
Team 4
Self Balancing Electric Unicycle
Students: Evan Kharlamb (CE), Aneysies DeMore (ME), David De La Cruz (EE), Sara Bernabe (ME), Alianna Jimenez-McCoy (ME)
Advisor: Damodaran Radhakrishnan Co-Advisor: Graham Werner
Description: We are building an electric unicycle from the ground up. Electric unicycles are a newer segment of micromobility, being a highly compact yet comfortable vehicle for shorter urban trips. We seek to iterate on current designs, improving safety, comfort, and functionality.
Team 5
Solar Endurance UAV
Students: Aaron Mendoza (ME), Sean Wilk (CE), Jake Rosenfeld (ME), Abdulrahman Saleh (EE), Christian Geraghty (ME), Allan Vinod (ME)
Advisor: Kevin Shanley
Description: This project focuses on designing and building a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of extending its flight time by 30% beyond standard battery limitations. By integrating lightweight, flexible solar panels directly into the wing structure, the aircraft generates its own renewable energy mid-flight to recharge its battery while soaring. This system demonstrates how sustainable energy can be used to increase the endurance of drones for long-range missions like environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue operations.
Team 6
Wireless-Powered Train Mechanism
Students: Jake Hansen (ME), Christopher Monvil (ME), Matthew Regan (ME), Terence Tackie (EE)
Advisor: Ping-Chuan Wang
Stakeholder: Kai Di Feng, IKM Technology
Description: This project aims to revolutionize the world of high speed train travel by removing the catenary pantograph, which is a graphite strip that sits on the top of the train that, through contact with a copper wire, transmits power to the train. We are developing a way to transmit the power without physical contact, using a set of transformers mounted along side of the train. By doing so, high speed trains will be able to continue pushing their top speeds, while also reducing the need for maintenance when the graphite strip on the pantograph begins to wear out.
Team 7
Throw Tracking Disc Golf
Students: Scott Van Sise (CE), Garrett Grathwohl (CE), Nicholas Hutchins (CE), Bradley Guiteau (EE), Alex Ouellette (ME), Stephen Kirtyan (ME)
Advisor: Graham Werner
Description: Our project is a chip made using a microcontroller to track the parameters of each individual throw you make when playing disc golf. The microcontroller will read in your throws values such as acceleration, pitch, and spin rate to give back a table to the user on how to improve their throws.
Team 8
Heart Simulator
Students: Luca Giammarino (ME), Morgan Lanberg (ME), Russell Vitug (ME), Sofia Sulaiman (ME), Alex Wyant (CE)
Advisor: Rachmadian Wulandana
Description: Through this project, our team seeks to simulate blood flow through the left side of the heart, using engineering components to visualize the purpose of each of its components. Project inputs such as a pump, valves, tubing, and a reservoir will be implemented to replicate the heart muscle’s key components, like the left ventricle, mitral and aortic valves, lungs, and pulmonary veins. Creating an operating fluid cycle that successfully mimics each feature in the left side of the heart will allow this project to inform people on the fundamental operation of the heart’s blood flow using engineering.
Team 9
K.A.R.E.N: Knowledge-Adaptive Robotic Execution Network
Students: William Hamling (EE), Emily Thiel (EE), Stephanie Rhoades (ME), Shaima Herzallah (ME), Grace Fevola (ME), Ramiro Cuacuas (CE)
Advisor: Kerry Ford
Description: Traditional robotic arms require complex programming for every task, limiting their accessibility and flexibility. For our senior design project, we are designing an AI-powered 6-DOF robotic arm that solves this by understanding natural voice commands and using computer vision to autonomously manipulate objects in its workspace. By integrating speech recognition, vision-language models, and ROS-based control on Raspberry Pi 5, the system translates commands like 'put the green block in box 1' into coordinated physical actions without manual programming.
Team 10
Chaos; Synchronization, Minimizing, Controlling
Students: Kelly Pender (ME), Matthew Barraclough (EE), Larissa Mitchell (EE), Jaheem Townes (EE), Shoshana Shapiro (PHY)
Advisor: Mohammad Zunoubi
Description: This project takes on three different ways of controlling and managing chaos in a variety of scenarios. There is nonlinear circuity, inverted pendulum control, and earthquake load control on buildings. This project uses different methods for each "arm" of the project, and hopes to both display nonlinear control, and touch on novel control of nonlinear circuity, particularly in Chua's Circuit.
Team 11
Co-linear Mecanum Drone for Internal Security
Students: Cole Enslen (CE), Edwin Yang (CE), Matthew Gold (ME), Matthew Suazo (ME)
Advisor: Vincent Liao
Description: The project is to create a drone that utilizes a mecanum wheel to provide a wide range of motion on a 2D plane. The drone will have many features such as remote control, video streaming, and computer vision, which are all essential to allow it to manage it's security tasks.
Team 12
Ski Boot Flex Tester
Students: Coltrane Fracalossi-Lail (ME), Tyler Foy (EE), Riley Kaan (ME), John Vacca (ME)
Advisor: Ping-Chuan Wang
Description: Our project consists of a machine which will test/measure the flex in a ski boot. The machine will display to users a general standardized flex index to the boot that they are interested in. Thus, delivering a tool to the consumer, which will be used to choose a comfortable and correct boot for their skiing skillset.
Team 13
Matrix Audio Hub
Students: Colton Arenella (CE), Peter Harvill (ME), Eric Rosenfield (EE), Ian Brady (EE)
Advisor: Mahdi Farahikia Co-advisor: Kerry Ford
Description: Our group is designing the Matrix Audio Hub, which will take 4 instrument input signals and 2 speaker input signals and output them to between one and four outputs. It will have a GUI, interlocking and fit in a standard 19" rack. It will allow for user defined phase shifting to enable speaker groups to be set up and a focal point for the sound to be determined.
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