MIE celebrates capstone students at 2017 Design Expo & Chair's Reception - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

April 7, 2017 – On April 6, more than 100 faculty, students, industry clients, alumni and proud parents celebrated the achievements of MIE’s capstone design students. Over 250 students worked in teams to complete 66 projects for top industry clients. This year, the department was proud to introduce two new award prizes, the John H. Weber Scholarship and The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award, thanks to the generosity of MIE alumni. The awards were given out by David F. Poirier (IndE 8T1), MIE Advisory Board Chair, and board member John Peri (IndE 8T4), respectively.

This year’s winners are:

Mechanical Engineering

John H. Weber Scholarship

“Test Apparatus for Nose Landing-gear Shimmy”
Members: Eeshaan Patil, Arshdeep Dhaliwal, Abhirav Kotwal, Harsh Soni
Supervisor: Kamran Behdinan
Client: ARL-MLS / a collaborative project with SPP Canada Aircraft

First Place:

“Optimization of a Wind-Powered Water Pump”
Members: Charlotte Bierman-Dyk, Jordan Lee, Helen Song, Anita Tran
Supervisor: Amy Bilton
Client: Winds of Change

Second Place (tie):

“Baseball Pitching Machine”
Members: Robert Goldberg, Aiden Solala, Adam Thomas, Karan Shukla
Supervisor: David Sinton
Client: Blue Jays

Third Place:

“Gesture Recognition Device”
Members: Jun Lin Guan, Xuecheng Wang, Chaochan Liu, Yudi Dong
Supervisor: Jean Zu
Client: VDML

Industrial Engineering

The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award:

“Social Media Analytics: Making the Most of Online Data”
Members: Anton Blotchtinski, Jason Rizk, Vibhor Sachdeva
Supervisor: Scott Sanner
Client: Shopify

Second Place:

“GRW and MACD Predictive Financial Platform”
Members: Amanzhol Zhangeldin, Qi Pan, Louis Vo
Supervisor: Roy Kwon
Client: Bank of America

Third Place:

“User Experience Redesign”
Members: Ralph Santo, Ashton Sidhu, Sneha Shekar
Supervisor: Mariano Consens
Client: IBM

Traditional Land Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.