2022 ECE Capstone Expo Award Winners

Congratulation to this year’s senior students who participated in the ECE capstone program and their advisers for a job well done!

The Capstone Expo was back in person this year and was held in the BSC. Capstone Expo Day demonstrated our students’ exceptional capabilities.

A panel of judges joint us to identify the top ten projects, recognized 3 special awards (best in research, best in impact, best in commercialization) and award three Galbiati Entrepreneurial awards (total of $5,000). Our judges were very impressed with the quality of the projects and commended our students’ capabilities and enthusiasm. The capstone teams did a fantastic job and made us all proud!

Before we announce the winning projects, I would like to thank everyone involved with this year’s capstone program:

Many advisers undertook students’ guidance this year. We would like to thank the ECE faculty who supported the program and advisers inside and outside of Rutgers who contributed their time and effort to help our students. Their efforts and support are key to the success of our capstone program and the students’ learning experience.

We would like to acknowledge the support of the following industry sponsors: 

• Don Bachman, Head of Strategy, Russelectric, a Siemens Business, and board member at 7x24 Exchange Metro New York Chapter;
• Joe Rambala, President, Electronic Warfare, Space & Airborne Systems, L3Harris;
• BlackRock;
• Galbiati family.

Many thanks to our panel of judges for their effort and time taken to support and celebrate our students’ achievements. The panel included: Minning Zhu (Rutgers ECE), Soyab Khatumbra (L3Harris), Alexander Loh (BAE Systems), Adam Novak (General Dynamics Mission Systems), Yaniv Myszkin (Audible), Don Bachman (Siemens), Milap Shah (Microsoft), Niral Shah (Apple), Will Cheng, Sabian Corrette (Rutgers), Pragati Sharma (Rutgers), Darshan Singh (Intel), Aditi Satish (Rutgers), Umama Ahmed (L3Harris), Roshni Shah (American Express), Scott Yappen (Foley Power Systems), Swetha Angara (TD Securities), Xuemeng Li (Hunter College), Marina Eskander (Concord Engineering Group), James Bibby (Schindler Elevator Corp), Steven Wu (Nuro Inc), Bhargav Tarpara (Capable Health), Parth Kanani (Empire Circuits), Anish Seth (Rutgers), Pavan Desai (Johnson & Johnson), Tim Petersen (L3Harris), Frank Hoffman (Lockheed Martin), Akash Nayak (Fidelity Investments)

Their expertise, care, and insights where priceless in making the hard decisions as for the top projects.

A very warm thank you to our wonderful ECE staff: Arletta Hoscilowicz, Pamela Heinold, John Scafidi, Kevin Wine, and Christopher Reid. As always, their commitment and hard work made this event and others happen. Many thanks to Demetrios Lambropoulos who worked tirelessly to support the capstone program around the year and to all the undergraduate students who helps with capstone expo: Aayushi Kasera, Shreya Pandey, Ritika Rao, Anisha Barde, Anurag Vattipalli, Roshan Patel, Sreetulasi Mannepalli, Aaron Soner, Adam D'Souza, Rohan Rahalkar, Emma Heinold, Harvey Zhang and Arthur Patlewicz.

After hours of diligent work, here are the awards granted by our panel of judges:

Top Ten Projects: 

#1 place (awarded $100 per student, sponsored by 7x24 exchange, Metro NY chapter)
Project S22-26: Streamlining SDR Implementation of Neural Networks Through GNURadio Module Development
Team members: Morriel Kasher and Michael Zhao
Adviser: Dr. Predrag Spasojevic
 
#2 place (awarded $75 per student, sponsored by L3Harris)
Project S22-35: Portable Electronic System for a Microfluidic Impedance Cytometer
Team members: Darwin Arias-Lizano, Talya Erblich, Emily Gruber, and Nicolas Rubert  
Adviser: Dr. Umer Hassan
 
#3 place (awarded $50 per student, sponsored by BlackRock)
Project S22-34: Internal Combustion Engine Heat Recovery & Conversion
Team members: Christina McLaughlin, Bryan Guaricela, and Edward Avkhukov
Adviser: Dr. Michael Caggiano
 
#4 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-16: iCARE
Team members: Nitya Sathish, Sahreen Kaur, Kyle Boyce, Seyma Guleryuz, and Angelica Corella Castro
Adviser: Dr. Hana Godrich

#5 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-24: Project V.I.S.I.O.N
Team members: Justine Catli, Amit Patel, Sumant Pottepalem, and Kevin Zhang
Adviser: Dr. Hana Godrich and Don Bachman (Siemens)

#6 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-40: Autonomous Ocean Cleanup
Team members: Esteban Salazar, Vaishnavi Gandhi, Ranea Alghawi, Amber Guthrie, and Anthony Apostolides
Adviser: Dr. Dario Pompili
 
#6 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-07: POWER MOVE
Team members: Tint Aung, Jason Nitti, and Vatsal Patel
Advisers: Dr. Hana Godrich   
 
#8 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-06: Monitoring Bus Capacity
Team members: Sowmya Balakrishnan, Carla Jaraplasan, Sachin Mathew, and Angela Shaw
Adviser: Dr. Hana Godrich
 
#9 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-31: Solar Powered Heliostat
Team members: Justin Serrano, Andrew Retana, Patrick Lahey, and David Whiteman
Adviser: Dr. John McGarvey and Dr. Sumati Sehajpal

#10 place (awarded $25 per student)
Project S22-09: Smart Car Control System based on EMG Signal
Team members: Tianyu Qin, Jiacheng Wang,  Jiaxi Xu, and Zhiyun Qin
Advisers: Dr. Bo Yuan

Best in Research Award (awarded $75 per student)
Project S22-28: Transcript Coding for Mental Health Research
Team members: Jack Bessen, Christian Brito, Mohammad Said Kharboutli, and William Yubeaton
Adviser: Dr. Anand Sarwate
 
Best in Impact Award (awarded $75 per student)
Project S22-35: Portable Electronic System for a Microfluidic Impedance Cytometer
Team members: Darwin Arias-Lizano, Talya Erblich, Emily Gruber, and Nicolas Rubert  
Adviser: Dr. Umer Hassan

Best in Commercialization (awarded $75 per student)
Project S22-40: Autonomous Ocean Cleanup
Team members: Esteban Salazar, Vaishnavi Gandhi, Ranea Alghawi, Amber Guthrie, and Anthony Apostolides
Adviser: Dr. Dario Pompili

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The Galbiati Entrepreneurial Awards: First place with $2,500
Project S22-07: POWER MOVE
Team members: Tint Aung, Jason Nitti, and Vatsal Patel

Advisers: Dr. Hana Godrich   
 
The Galbiati Entrepreneurial Awards: Second place with $1,500
Project S22-09: Smart Car Control System based on EMG Signal
Team members: Tianyu Qin, Jiacheng Wang, Jiaxi Xu, and Zhiyun Qin

Advisers: Dr. Bo Yuan
 
The Galbiati Entrepreneurial Awards: Third place with $1,000
Project S22-26: Streamlining SDR Implementation of Neural Networks Through GNURadio Module Development

Team members: Morriel Kasher and Michael Zhao
Adviser: Dr. Predrag Spasojevic

 
Congratulations to the students and advisers!!!