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College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) students put their technical problem-solving skills on display at the annual CEC Design Expo.

By Miami University

May 16^th, 2025

What is the CEC Design Expo?

Each year at the beginning of May, Miami University College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) student teams take over Millett Hall to showcase their design projects at the annual CEC Design Expo. This year's Expo included Senior Design Projects and graduate research, as well as undergraduate projects competing for design challenge awards.

A design project starts with a real-life engineering or computing problem, which students and companies partner together to solve. Through the process, students gain real-world design and project experience — and businesses benefit from students' technical skills, ingenuity, and fresh perspective. And, at every step, faculty advisors for each project offer mentorship and guidance.

The result is a world of new ideas, strengthened professional relationships, and a tangible, hands-on learning experience that is directly applicable to industry needs.

If your company would like to collaborate with a CEC student group on an upcoming Senior Design project, please contact Jenni Szolwinski, Director of Industry Relations for CEC, at szolwijb@MiamiOH.edu. For more opportunities for companies to connect with CEC students, visit the CEC Industry Relations page.

Explore this year's projects

Engineering students showcase the Sulfur Dioxide Filtration System they designed their senior year at CEC.

A College of Engineering and Computing student explains the functionality of his project at Millett Hall.

The Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering department’s Cold Press Watercolor Paper project took home two awards at the 2025 Design Expo.

Computer Science students discuss their project, AI Tech Rate Negotiation.

Team members from the First Place prize winning team for the Computer Science and Software Engineering department showcase their work.

Engineering students demonstrate the results of their design work exploring autonomous aircraft technology.

CEC students try out a project incorporating a robot hand and arm that mirrors real-time human movements.

Mechanical engineering students hear about a project completed by their fellow student.

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering students share insights from their design project, a press box window mechanism for Yager Stadium.

At the Expo, the Senior Design Projects are judged by students, faculty, and alumni. Final awards by department and category are handed out the next day at a celebratory breakfast — a highlight of CEC's annual Alumni and Friends Conference held each Spring. In 2025, 90 undergraduate project teams and graduate researchers showcased their work to the public. Below, learn the names of the teams and individuals who took home the Expo's top awards.

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE) winners

1st Place: Light-Weighted Privacy Protection Algorithm for AI-Applications in loT-Cloud Environments

2nd Place: AI Assistant

3rd Place: AI Tutor

1st Place: Light-Weighted Privacy Protection Algorithm for AI-Applications in loT-Cloud Environments (Student Team: Joseph Brocato, Liam McGuckin, Jack McMaken, Sriram Ranganathan)

2nd Place: AI Assistant (Student Team: Evan Earhart, Savannah Lescas, Ethan Shea-Stultz, Brady Spears)

3rd Place: AI Tutor (Student Team: Amani Chava, Patience Chowning, Morgan Ford, Liam Fronk, Ada Haley, Autumn Hubbard, Will Houston, Noah Keen, Stefan Stojanovski, Evie Wheatley)

Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering (CPB) winners

Best Device Performance: Biosensor for Glucose and BUN

Best Poster: Paper Team - Cold Press Watercolor Paper

Most Customer-Centric Design: G.U.M. - Glucose Uric Monitor

Most Innovative Design: Colorimetric Sensor for Ketone and Glucose Levels

Best Poster: Paper Team - Cold Press Watercolor Paper (Student Team: Emily Baker, Jan Behrens, Cyrus Dittmar, Sofie Dwyer, Kevin Friedman, Annelise Gayer, Chloe Germanos, Dan Hursh, Gavin Isaac, Jacob Kanuk, Laney McBean, Jessica Rosteutscher, Cael Walker, Herve Tindo, Cullen O'Shea)

Most Customer-Centric Design: G.U.M. - Glucose Uric Monitor (Student Team: Alex Coulombe, Kelsey Kamm, Kevin Araghi, Samuel Karlock, Andrew Stebbins, Dylan Albrecht, Bryn Jones, Riley Stalling)

Best Device Performance: Biosensor for Glucose and BUN (Student Team: Vivian Niekamp, Aidan Scott, Aaron Roskin, Lielyn Mercer, Trey Godfrey, Sabrina Low, David Metzger, Link Carter)

Most Innovative Design: Colorimetric Sensor for Ketone and Glucose Levels (Student Team: Johnny Serrano Flores, Emma Morris , Meghan Tibbs, Zach Renfro, Jason Hinderlong, Aaron Aan Duijvenboode Varkevisser, Maggie Eibler, Nathan Born)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) winners

1st Place: mmWave Radar for Search and Rescue Operations

2nd Place: Seekers Dilemma - RISC-V Benchmark for Hardware Trojan

3rd Place: Navigation and Automatic Control of an Indoor Quadrotor

1st Place: mmWave Radar for Search and Rescue Operations (Student Team: Huan Dang, Sam Kanaan, Lucian Pfister)

2nd Place: Seekers Dilemma - RISC-V Benchmark for Hardware Trojan (Student Team: Jerry Chen, Chris Lallo, Blake Rile)

3rd Place: Navigation and Automatic Control of an Indoor Quadrotor (Student Team: David Leonard, Keaton Ramey, Rajeev Rangaraju)

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME) winners

2nd Place: Pollution Mitigation

1st Place: FSAE Accumulation

3rd Place: Jet Cat

1st Place: FSAE Accumulation (Denver Johnson, Juan Moya, Alec Rode, Florence Xu, Jerry Xu, Yichi Zhang)

2nd Place: Pollution Mitigation (Student Team: Sofi Avila, Owen Boff, Audra Fleming, Amanda Packard, Emari Smiley, Carly Wagoner)

3rd Place: Jet Cat (Student Team: Rhett Benclure, Joe Hite, Will Fahenstock, Glen MacLeay, Ethan Gullett, Joey Maloney)

MUCAT, SEEC, and People’s Choice Award winners

SEEC (Socially Engaged Engineering and Computing) Award winning team

MUCAT Award winning team with Lee and Rosemary Fisher

People's Choice (Undergraduate Design Project) Award winning team

People's Choice Award (Graduate Research) Winner Nadim Mahmud

Miami University Center for Assistive Technology (MUCAT) Design Challenge Award winners

Specialized Modular Adaptive Relief Tracking wheelchair (SMART) Wheelchair (Student Team: Muhammad Danish Malik, Micah Granadino, Abud Hamdan, Shakhzodkhon Mukaddaskhonov, Aung Khant Kyaw, Sajjadur Sajid, Jack Purtiman)

This year's MUCAT Design Challenge Award was presented in collaboration with The Lee and Rosemary Fisher Innovation College@Elm and included a first place $25,000 to be put towards the further development of the project.

Socially Engaged Engineering and Computing (SEEC) Award winners

Lifting Prosthetic (Student Team: Mark Whapham, Conner Gall, Christoper Tsai, Troy Jones, Geremia Balice, Cali Meshew, David Bartolin)

People's Choice Award winners

Undergraduate Student Team Winner: Paper Team - Cold Press Watercolor Paper (Student Team: Emily Baker, Jan Behrens, Cyrus Dittmar, Sofie Dwyer, Kevin Friedman, Annelise Gayer, Chloe Germanos, Dan Hursh, Gavin Isaac, Jacob Kanuk, Laney McBean, Jessica Rosteutscher, Cael Walker, Herve Tindo, Cullen O'Shea)

Graduate Research Winner: MyPath: Efficient and Personalized Accessible Routing for Wheelchair Users Through the Built Environment (Graduate Researcher: Nadim Mahmud)

What's next for these projects?

Even though CEC's seniors from 2025 have now graduated and are embarking on new journeys in the professional world and graduate school, their research and design work will continue evolving. Several projects from this year's Senior Design Expo are continuations of projects begun by graduating classes from years past. Next year, the class of 2026 will continue to build on the success of this year's senior class, and new solutions to real-world problems will continue to emerge.

Footnotes

Photos and Video by Polyrhythm LLC; Written by Katie Rottner

FootNotes

Photos and Video by Polyrhythm LLC; Written by Katie Rottner

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