Last week, the College of Engineering and Computing hosted its Undergraduate Research Celebration at Dewberry Hall on the Fairfax Campus. The event showcased the students’ amazing work across various fields, from robotic pianos to canine combat training vests.
The winning teams (listed below) each received a $1000 cash prize for their exceptional achievement. Congratulations to all the winners.
Outstanding Project Awards
Selected by a panel of alumni judges, the award honors projects that demonstrate overall excellence in motivation, design, results, potential impact, and presentation.This year’s winners of the Outstanding Project Award:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Environmental Monitoring
Maggie Coombs, Nikitha Kumar, Ethan O’Connell, Rylan Pettit, and Grant Sibley
Mechanical Engineering
Design of a Logistic Management Tool (LMT) for Drone-Based Agricultural Surveillance at Scale
Salma Awad, Dyar Aziz, Markus Garretson, Max Hollant, and Chris Wilson
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Entrepreneurial Mindset Awards
Sponsored by KEEN, the award recognizes projects that exemplify the 3 C’s of the KEEN Framework: Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value.
This year’s winners of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Award:
Can LLMs Simulate Personas with Reversed Performance?
Sai Adith Senthil Kumar
Computer Science
Enhancing Government Asset Transparency: An AI-Blockchain-IoT Framework for Public Sector Accountability
Gazi Tarik Essawi, Rida Hasan, Daniel Huynh, Eric Kim, Ronitt Murjany, Minh Nguyen, Farzam Noori, Noah Tomas Ramsden, Sophia Riehl, Alex Trinh, and William Watson
Cyber Security Engineering
People’s Choice Award
Chosen by popular vote from event attendees, the award goes to the project that captured the most community enthusiasm.
People’s Choice Award
Mobile Prosthetic Clinic for Remote Healthcare
Haya Al-Bana, Ikram Fathi, Andy Gomez, and Jana Nahas
Bioengineering