UNB Engineering News

Students in their final year of engineering at UNB presented their capstone projects virtually this year in the first-ever online Design Symposium. 

Final year students worked in groups throughout the past year on a real-world design project from an industry client and were supervised by both industry mentors and a faculty supervisor. At the Design Symposium, students presented their designs to their client partners and to the public and alumni. 

Dr. Michel Couturier, the chair for collaborative engineering design education and professor of chemical engineering, says " we received many positive comments regarding the quality of the work performed by the students and the platform that we used to hold the symposium.  There were 244 final-year engineering students and 34 second-year Civil Engineering students who gave presentations at the symposium. Close to 1200 people registered for the Design Symposium this year - more than double the attendance at previous in-person symposiums! It was wonderful to see so many UNB alumni, family members and industry representatives take part."

He says because of this year's success, the Faculty plans to hold next year’s Design Symposium using a hybrid approach to take advantage of both the in-person and online models. 

Departments with the Faculty of Engineering choose winning teams who presented at the Symposium. Congrats to all!

Chemical Engineering: 

First place: Reduction of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Sludge Disposal Costs; presented by Patrick Bowen, Paul Hashem, Andrew Hilborn, Finnegan Kummer

Second place: Sulfur Dioxide Replacement at Irving Paper Limited; presented by Tess Lyons, Taylor MacDonald, Katelyn McAllister, Sweta Mungur

Third place: Optimization of D2O Upgrader; presented by Alexandra Chedore, Jessica Davis, Kieren Hume, Sean Murphy

Civil Engineering:

Best CE Technical Report
Third Choice Engineering: Connor Blanchard, Graeme Clark, Ryan MacDonald, Lucas Marshall, Keagan Rankin

Best CE Technical Report: 1st Runner up

Brun-Terra Consulting: Kari Anderson, Shelby Banfield, Zackariah Gallant, Nathaniel Isnor, Isabel Loewen

Best CE Technical Report: 2nd Runner up
H2Operations: Alyssa Bernier, Kristen Burns, Kate deWinter, Megan Stone, Alyssa van de Riet

Best CE Presentation
H2Operations: Alyssa Bernier, Kristen Burns, Kate deWinter, Megan Stone, Alyssa van de Riet

Best CE Presentation: 1st Runner up
Third Choice Engineering: Connor Blanchard, Graeme Clark, Ryan MacDonald, Lucas Marshall, Keagan Rankin

Best CE Presentation: 2nd Runner up
Brun-Terra Consulting: Kari Anderson, Shelby Banfield, Zackariah Gallant, Nathaniel Isnor, Isabel Loewen

Electrical and Computer Engineering:

IEEE NB Chapter prize for technical excellence:

Smart Grid Digital Twin: Alex Everett, Braden Haley, Liam Hogan, Joshua Power

John F. Murphy prize ($1000) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (students in any concentration):

CubeSat NB - EGSE, ADCS, and OBC Project (EAOP): Julie Brown, Billie O’Connor, Mackenzie Savoy, Mary Ann Sims

John F. Murphy prize ($1000) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (power and renewable energy concentration):

NB Power Distribution Primary Current Measurement System: Ken Chambers, Danielle Jewett, Thanh Ngo, Thomas Ryan

Geomatics Engineering:

1.Monitoring Salmon Habitat using UAV Technology in Fundy National Park: Karla Brown, Conor Sexton, Lesley Spencer

2.Combining Close Range And UAV Imagery To Create Dense Point Clouds In Urban Settings: Taylor Deruiter, Julia Diemert, Elsa Dumontet

3.UNB Virtual Model: Kaila Reid, Anna Morrison, Ian Anderson, Jordan Major

Geological Engineering:

Best Presentation Award

HydroFront: Syed Ammar Qaiser, Justin Ferguson, and Leah Crossley

Best Report Award

EnviroFirst: Grace McNally, Kassidy Totton, Morley Eve MacDonald, and Alex McFarlane

Software Engineering: 

David Macneil Prize 

Chexy: A two-player strategy based game: Alexandre Moreira de Carvalho, Amir David, Ben Myles, Jakob Roberts, Tye Shutty

Technology Management and Entrepreneurship:

Team V-Arm: Caitlin Pepper, Curtis Lough, Joseph Richardson, Tram Ngo 

Note: Mechanical Engineering did not choose award winners this year.