Spring 2012 Senior Design Competition Showcases Students’ Best Work

On Friday, May 11, 22 student teams from civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering presented their senior design projects to a panel of six industry judges in hopes to win one of the four monetary awards.

Thanks to a generous donation from Don and Karen White, the top overall team won $1,000, and the best projects from the other three disciplines won a $250 cash prize.

This semester’s winners were as follows:

Overall Best Project: The Upcyclatron, mechanical engineering
Team members:Ross Cholmia, Devin Eldridge, Warren Linn, Brian Lopez, Tom Serra, Carl Simonsen

Best Project, Civil Engineering: Southeast Corridor Extension RidgeGate Station
Team members: Hamad Al‐Thani, Amornthep Boonlert, Jeremy Deischer, Quyen Liu, Saman Mehdi, David Nwafor,
Carl Tiu

Best Project, Computer Science and Engineering: ARIS Project
Team members: Nasser Al‐Khalifa, Ryan Doubrava, Sun Rey Eagle

Best Project, Electrical Engineering: Hum Sniffer (first place)
Team members:Joshua M. Perry, Moshe Redmon

Best Project, Electrical Engineering: Danger Ranger (second place)
Team members: Andrew Koepke, Ryan C. Smith

Read about all of the projects at engineering.ucdenver.edu/seniordesign and stay tuned for photos from the event.