Fall 2022 Swanson School Design Expo

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DESIGNEXPO SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING December 9, 2022 Welcome to the Swanson School’s sixteenth Design EXPO! We thank you for joining us this evening to celebrate our students’ talents and achievements. Tonight’s Design EXPO will feature 63 student projects that traverse the design space from problem identification, specification of objectives and constraints, conceptual development, to, in many cases, result in an actual prototype. In this way the EXPO provides an opportunity for students to display their creativity and ingenuity.

Many of our student projects come directly from the Swanson School’s Capstone Design Courses and were submitted by graduating seniors. The Capstone Design Courses enable students to address real-world problems either posed by industry or identified by the teams themselves.

Alongside these projects our EXPO will also highlight concepts and prototypes from students in our product realization courses.

As in past years, we welcome everyone in attendance to text in a vote for their favorite project as a part of the EXPO’s “People’s Choice Award” while our judges from industry evaluate the projects to determine: • Best in the department • Best Overall Design Judging will begin at 5 p.m. and end at 7:45 p.m. Winners will be announced after the results have been calculated.

We hope that you enjoy learning more about these exciting projects and have opportunities to discuss details with our students. We are proud of all their accomplishments. Enclosed you will find a list of the design projects, team members, and faculty advisors who have joined us this evening for this special event.

We would like to thank Interim Dean Sanjeev Shroff, Associate Dean Mary Besterfield-Sacre, the Swanson School of Engineering faculty members, and our generous industry partners who have provided guidance to the student teams. Special thanks to the judges for their time and support of this exciting endeavor. We would also like to thank the family, friends and community members and partners who have gathered here to support our students.

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DEPARTMENT OF

BIOENGINEERING Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mark Gartner BIO-1 IV Shower Guard

BIO-5 Shoe Donning Assist Device for AFO Braces

Mentor: Dr. Brady Bielewicz

Mentor: Megan Murray

Dalia Fantini Marcos Zegarra Abigail Fisk Andres Leon-Vargas Devon Stafford Christine Sullivan Emma Lynch Olivia Gardner

Sida Wilson Jacob Antonello Emily Gorges Rachel Shaw Evan Eisenhart Olivia Porcello Sean Wescott Allison Neirotti

BIO-2 Redesigning Nasal Cannula Routing

BIO-6 Automated Syringe Drug Push

Mentor: Patricia Klinefelter Tuite

Mentor: Joe Samosky

Benjamin Newell Karson Curran Aidan Bell Yulia Yatsenko Jordan Ferrell Noah Carpe Abigal Book Aidan McMahon

Tatyana Reese Cambell France Alyssa Aguglia Himavarsha Yerraguntla Alex Ezerins Tianyang Li Arvind Venkatraman

BIO-7 Improved Urine Specimen Collection BIO-3 Resolving the Endoscopic’s Thumb Mentor: Dr. Asif Khalid, MD

Alyssa Long Heather Shannon Monica Lebaudy Garrett Martin Nishant Chitluru Melody Whittaker Robert Patrick Donahue Carley Brimmeier

Mentor: Becky Clarkson

Alexandra Hascall Lalia Alamri Madison Haver Kaitlin Chung Jessica Axelson Pragya Malhotra Nataline Goldstein

BIO-8 Hands-Free Teeth Brushing Mentor: Michael Komoroski, DMD

BIO-4 IV Pole for Wheelchair/Beds Mentor: Jennifer Wasco

Kareem Al-Bahrani Natalie Jackson Zaiad Chowdhury Christian Hangey Ashwat Subbaraman Lev Ivanov

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Jessica Steinberg Kristyn Usilton Varshini Ramanathan Justin Zbikowski Noah Lochran Katherine McDonough Danielle Isenberg

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BIOENGINEERING (continued)

BIO-9 EDS Shoulder Reduction Trainer

BIO-11 Special Needs Dentisrty Trainer

Mentor: Richard Debski

Mentor: Lynne Taiclet, DMD

Yu-hsuan Chao Karhik Iyer Jeremy Reimenschneider Natalie Danielsen Young Kim Eric Shaker Molly Bevenour

Kanika Yadav Jami Stuckey Julianna Castle Anna Maywar Rachel McLoughlin Emily Walkenhorst Michael Coughlin

BIO-10 Instructional Swaddling Blanket Mentor: Tara Stickley

Michael Haugh Kaely Carlson Vincenzia Vargo Jewelia Rempuszewski Arjun Kumar Marshall Malin Hailey Linden

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DEPARTMENT OF

CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Faculty Advisor: Professor John Sebastian CEE-1 Brownsville Municipal Center

CEE-5 Strip District Park Project

Faculty Mentors: Dr. John Oyler, Prof. John Sebastian, Dr. Steve Sachs, Prof Matt Geary, Dr. Sebastian Lobo-Guerrero, P.E., Prof Jason Esser

Faculty Mentors: Dr. Mark Magalotti, Dr. Alex Stevanovic, Prof. John Sebastian, Prof. Matt Geary, Dr. Alessandro Fascetti

Industry Mentors: Joe Baratovich and Tracy Zivkovich, City of Brownsville

Industry Mentors: Gavin White, Riverlife

Jerry Wiernusz Josha Fisher

Siddhesh Iyer Thomas Martz

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kent Harries

Faculty Mentors: Dr. Kent Harries, Prof. John Sebastian Industry Mentors: John Yadlosky, HDR; Bill Crawford, TWE Engineering; Craig White, JMT; Jason Esser, S&B USA / Pitt; Jason Zang, PennDOT; Eric Setzler, City of Pittsburgh; Jennifer Nolan-Kremm, HDR

Isabella Cicco Christopher Tirpak

CEE-3 Tiny House Community Faculty Mentors: Dr. John Oyler, Prof. John Sebastian, Dr. Marcel Minutolo, Dr. Steven Sachs, Prof. Richard Feder Industry Mentors: Deborah Gross, Councilwoman - City of Pittsburgh; James Murray, Chief of Staff, City of Pittsburgh; Ayanna Jones, Sankofa Village Community Garden

Isabel Lee Dylan McGettigan

Kyle Robinson Jason Puglisi

CEE-4 Low Head Dam Removal Faculty Mentors: Prof Werner Loehlein, Prof John Sebastian Industry Mentors: Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, American Rivers; Paul Schweiger, Gannett Fleming; Benjamin Israel, Gannett Fleming; Dr. Rollin Hotchkiss, Professor BYU; John Cenkner, Cenkner Engineering; Alan Herman, Cenkner Engineering

Ari Wynn Toby Berman

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Logan Edmonds Nat Clementi

CEE-6 Center Road Bridge Replacement

CEE-2 Frick Park Bridge

Joseph Sciulli Lindsay Popovich

Anna Goetz Nicholas Banko

Industry Mentors: John Yadlosky, HDR; Edward Skorpinski, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; Bill Crawford, TWE Engineering; Craig White, JMT

Jake Walker Zachary Gimbel

Matthew Wobrak Lee Harvey

CEE-7 Improving the Treatment of Pittsburgh Drinking Water Faculty Mentors: Dr. Meng Wang, Dr. Carla Ng, Dr. Leonard Casson Industry Mentors: Frank Sidari, PWSA; Kyle Kaminski, YSI Environmental Solutions; Jay Hardison, Jacobs Engineering

Midori Bridges Samantha Kantorczyk

Amanda Martin Julia Mascho

CEE-8 Duquesne City Center Brownfield Remediation Faculty Mentors: Dr. Sarah Haig, Dr. Vikas Khanna, Dr. David Malehorn, Dr. Meng Wang Industry Mentors: Keith Miller and Associates, RIDC; Tina Rogers, Langan Engineering

Colin Kirschner Noah Harvey

Sydney Robertson Evan Trump

Cameron Bobnar David Katzenberg

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING Faculty Advisors: Dr. Mohamed Ashraf S. Bayoumy and Dr. Nathan Youngblood ECE-1 Visualizing the Cathedral of Learning Using 3D LASER Scanner Faculty Mentor: Nathan Youngblood

ECE-6 Contaminant Picker Faculty Mentor: Amr Mahmoud

Michael Nowak Bruce Jia Zachary Hartman Ben Tanay

Adam Caves Mark Reth Joseph Schurer Collin Hough

ECE-7 Robotic Blackjack Dealer ECE-2 Animal Identification and Localizaiton

Faculty Mentor: Mai Abdelhakim

Faculty Mentor: Steven Jacobs

Industry Mentors: Alex Short, NNL; Chris Westerlund, NNL

Industry Mentor: Sean Dowhy, BPMI

Curtis Maher Luca Mahoney Nicholas Lowe Kyle Cullen

David Jones Aurimas Balciunas Shane Raible

ECE-3 Laser-Pointer-Following Robot Faculty Mentor: Sam Dickerson

Alexandros Getchell Matthew Kaiser Awaaz Dahal Veronica Roth

ECE-4 Tendon-Driven Soft Hand Exoskeleton Faculty Mentor: Sam Dickerson

Daniel Braunstein Tyler Sheetz Bryan Hess Michael Etter

ECE-5 Rubik’s Cube Solver Faculty Mentor: Liang Zhang Industy Mentors: Alex Short, NNL; Chris Westerlund, NNL

Peri Hassanzadeh Matthew Meehan Prosper Tjelmeland Alexander Haver

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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Faculty Advisor: Dr. Scott Streiner IE-1 Automating a Solution to Labor Shortages Faculty Mentor: Karen Bursic

IE-5 A Supply Chain Analysis of Laptop Procurement at LMI

Industry Mentor: Adam Olsen, IDL Worldwide

Faculty Mentor: Amin Rahimian Industry Mentors: Kerry McCarthy, LMI; Jessica Delph, LMI

Malik Talaat Eric Peters Giaco Gentile Andrew Polaski

Dawson Wolfe Mariana O’Doherty Zoe Yarsky Joseph Stiller

IE-2 Supervised Machine Learning in Healthcare: Predicting Patients’ Access to Care Faculty Mentors: Taewoo Lee, Caroline Kolman

IE-6 Small Supplier Visibility Risk Assessment Dashboard

Industry Mentor: Shufang Ci, Insightin Health

Faculty Mentor: Jay Rajgopal Industry Mentor: Jess Troiano, MSA

Heather Little Kayla Edwards Natalie Mann

IE-3 Discrepant Material Report Digitalization and Cost Analysis at JADCO Manufacturing Faculty Mentor: Mostafa Bedewy Industry Mentors: Michael Lewis, JADCO Manufacturing; Kendra Gagliano, JADCO Manufacturing

Tara Schroth Jack Kremer Meghan Wassmer

Josh Puleo Brady Regan Victoria Michalenko Madeline Kingsbury

IE-7 It Takes THYME: A Time Study and Simulation Modeling Project at Paragon Foods Faculty Mentor: Bopaya Bidanda Industry Mentor: Matthew Burns, Paragon Foods

IE-4 JADCO Safety Dashboard and Storage Rack Design

Joaquin Hollero Emma Schuszler Hannah Baluch Anaya Joynes

Faculty Mentor: Joel Haight Industry Mentors: Michael Lewis, JADCO Manufacturing; Holly Santilo, JADCO Manufacturing

Elizabeth Petley Victoria Likovich Christopher Paladino Evan Mancuso

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & MATERIALS SCIENCE Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Schmidt MEMS-1 Integrating Sports into STEM Education for 6th - 12th Grade Black Students: Basketball Sleeve

MEMS-6 Development of a System to Simulate ACL Injuries

Faculty Mentors: Nikhil Bajaj, David Schmidt

Faculty Mentor: Pat Smolinski

Christopher Rodi Halima Morafa Rajiv Philip Brian Karabin

Joshua Frantz Kick Roovers

MEMS-7 Development of an Internal Tracking Device for Bicycles

MEMS-2 Prototype Binder Jet Printer for Magnetically-Assisted Printing Faculty Mentor: Markus Chmielus

John Davison Elian Pineiro Maya Roman

MEMS-3 Development of a Remote Handling Vehicle for use in Irradiated Environments

Industry Mentor: CycleBax

Cindy Nguyen Jonah Bender Ronald Musto Shoulammite Soku Jonathan Troup Sarah Fritzsche Richard Smith

MEMS-8 Projects in the Ocular Biomechanics Laboratory

Industry Mentor: Naval Nuclear Laboratory

Morgan Dryburgh Blake Steen Cole Bowman Theo Goltzman

Faculty Mentor: Ian Sigal, Laboratory of Ocular Biomechanics

Ruben Verhagen Emma Ahlgren Sarah Wygant

MEMS-4 Filtration Testing Setup for 3D Printing Porous Metal Filters Faculty Mentor: Markus Chmielus

MEMS-9 Development of a NanCoGen Electric Power Generation System Industry Mentor: Chad Eckert

Siji Li Michael Marynchak Peter DeNicola

Michael Lincoln Marie Jones

MEMS-5 Development of a Process to 3D Print Parts for Vintage Cars Faculty Mentor: David Schmidt

MEMS-10 Extreme Heating Rate Processing of Amorphous Metal Ribbons using Static and Reel-to-Reel Processing Methods Facutly Mentor: Paul Ohodnicki

William Conran Jade Turner Alex Kulczycki David Schwartz Rissa Towsley

Benjamin Schneck

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THE ART OF MAKING: HANDS-ON SYSTEM DESIGN AND ENGINEERING Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joe Samosky AOM-1 Verbal-Eyes: Closed-Captions Aid for Classrooms Reece Basehore Kate Bonifacic Sophia Buda Connor McDermond AOM-2 Adapta-Bowl: Physical Education Equipment for Disabled Students Karson Curran Alex Hascall Nickolai Miller Lily Tibaldi AOM-3 Tangible Language: Promoting Independent Communication for Students with Impairments Oday Abushaban Haajar Ahmad-Ali Shreyo Das Hessan Jafarah Ronald Musto Angel Pampena

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AOM-4 Helping Hand: Easy Open Accessible Doors Steven Diaz Ylan Phan Andrew Richards Piper Toto AOM-5 Atlas Adapt: Accessible Phyiscal Education for All Tyler Hansen George Spann Dawson Winston Justin Zbikowski AOM-6 Accessible Assistant: Making Doors More Accessible Jeffery Alexander Aaron Chau Sam Lord Matthew McDonough Gabby Wassel

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PRODUCT REALIZATION Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eric Winter PR-1 BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) David Katzenberg Mikaela Kaufmann Cole Sanchez Brandon Taylor

PR-4 Kensington e-Lock Liam Diefes Yinhao Qian Lucas Ramsey Joseph Szlavik Alyssa Zito

PR-2 Cardboard Alternatives Matthew Mcdonough Sarai Morato Emily Richard Josiah Wiggins

PR-5 Magnetic Micrsoswitch Opportunities Sarah Fritzsche Marselle Lottie Matthew Symnoski Delaney Young

PR-3 Macy at the Door (Dog Alert System) Alex Hascall Tim Porter John Sima Nick Viduya Jiayi Zhao

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PR-6 Security Lock Sam Hunn Aaron McVaugh Anna Strauss Arvind Venkatraman

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MEDICAL PRODUCT PROTOTYPING Faculty Advisor: Dr. Pete Hill MPP-1 BreakAway: A Safe, Detachable Connector for Medical Tubing Systems

MPP-5 Novel Shunt Applicator for MinimallyInvasive Fetal Hydrocephalus Treatment

Industry Mentors: Dr. Michael Gimbel, UPMC; Dr. Whitney Sunseri, UPMC Children’s Hospital; Dr. Dale King UPMC Children’s Hospital

Faculty Mentor: Youngjae Chun, PhD

Udaya Goguladinne Yiming Li Neeshil Patel

Industry Mentor: Stephen P. Emery, MD, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC

Nicholas Lagerman Nathaniel Mitrik Samil Paul

MPP-2 Cric Hunters Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carl Snyderman

William Duncan Sean Klevens Katrina Zougari

MPP-3 The Drain Catcher Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard L. McGough

Jordan Barzeksky Annabel Martin-Varnum Ruth Segall

MPP-4 Gargoyle: Operating Table Fluid Management Device Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathon Hughes, UPMC Industry Mentor: Briana Meyer, UPMC

MPP-6 Auto-cane Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patrick Sparto

Zhonglin Gou Wenjie Hu Mikaela Kaufman Aaron McVaugh

MPP-7 Freehand Ultrasound Faculty Mentors: Dr. Steven Orebaugh, Dr. Carl H. Snyderman

Joel Fadness

MPP-8 TranquiLift II GEES Scholarship Project Faculty Mentors: Anna Dzuricky, Dr. Jonathan Pearlman, 2020 TranquiLift Team, Chuck’s Barbershop

Joel Fadness

David Cervera Lucas Marks Ryan Seger Qi Teng

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