UNB Engineering News

Students in their final year of engineering at UNB presented their capstone projects this year in the eighth annual Engineering Design Symposium. 

Dr. Michel Couturier, the chair for collaborative engineering design education and professor of chemical engineering, says " this was the highest attended event we’ve held, with both in-person and online attendees able to see the projects and presentations by our students.”

There were 209 students grouped into 54 teams who took part in the Design Symposium – and those teams worked throughout the academic year on a real-world design project from an industry client, supervised by both industry mentors and a faculty supervisor. At the event, students presented their designs to their client partners and to the public and alumni. 

Departments with the Faculty of Engineering choose winning teams after presentations were made, and the projects are part of their final marks as students. Congrats to all!

Chemical Engineering - Irving Oil Plant Design Competition:

First Place: Macrofouling Control through Chlorine Dioxide Injection

Team members: Baker, A. Leahy, C. Thompson, V. Vardhan

Second Place: The Production of Isotopically Enriched Coolant Salt

Team members: Brown, N. Hartery, E. Keilty, L. Martin

Third Place: Wastewater Treatment Plant for Big Stop Restaurants

Team members: Donahue, C. MacKay, L. Wagner, R. Williams

Civil Engineering and Geological Engineering

Best Technical Report Awards:

First Place, Geological Engineering: Rock Solid Technologies

Chad White, Soowhan Sung, Rylan Parenteau, Matthew Morgan

Second Place, Civil Engineering: PentaStruct

Jessica MacDonald, Erinn Chambers, Kate Cunningham, Luke Jillett, Will Luimes

Best Presentation Awards:

First Place, Civil Engineering: PentaStruct

Jessica MacDonald, Erinn Chambers, Kate Cunningham, Luke Jillett, Will Luimes

Second Place, Civil Engineering: Concrete Construction Solutions

Abby Eldridge, Patrick Rose, Nada Mahmoud

Electrical and Computer Engineering Awards are:

The John F. Murphy Prize: Satellite Communication and Ground Station (CubeSat NB)

Thomas Boyle, Ethan Brewer, Brett Robertson, Connar Scott

Demand Response Control Algorithm (NB Power)

Sienna Coward, Samuel Hache, Max Hartling, Connor MacDonald, Eric Zundel

Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering

First Prize: The Open Sonar Project

Graham Christie, Isaac Fuller, Kara Sanford

Second Prize: Analysis of Reality Capture Technologies for Geomatics Purposes

Timothy Brothers, Mary Cronin, Alexander Hill-Stosky 

Third Prize: InGuide: An Indoor Navigation Application

Jason Cox, Aidan Donnelly, Nathan Milan

Mechanical Engineering

First Place: Design of Retractable Solar Arch

Michael Arthurs, Finley Corbett, Alexander MacMillan, Alexander Strelkov

Second Place: Design of a Subsonic Impact Testing Device

Team Members: William Colwell, Guy Drapeau, Colin Ernst, Brendan Shea, Jacob Sylliboy,

Third Place: Design of a Retort Sterilization Unit for Indoor Farming

Team Members: Kyle Choi, Menghan Liu, Michael Maas, Samantha Piekarski

Best Presentation: Salmon Cage Bracket Redesign for Cooke Aquaculture

Team Members: Hunter Bell, Joseph Doherty, Alexandre Hayward, Mark O’Connor

Software Engineering

IEEE NB Section Prize: Production Ready Web Applications

Nathaniel Caron, Carter James MacLennan, Joao Viana Rocha Pontes, Sahil Saini, Frédéric Verret

Technology Management and Entrepreneurship

Prize Sponsors:  APEGNB + RBC

First Place: TekBoot

Alexandre Banks (ECE), Caroline Burpee (ECE), Luc Bouvier (ME), Julia Hill (ME)

Second Place: Accuvene

Alex Moore (ECE), Jordan Hoyt (ECE), Jack Shaw (ECE), Daniel Bradbury (ECE)