Engineering Design Symposium
Designing a better future
The UNB Engineering Design Symposium is an annual event where final-year engineering students showcase their designs and prototypes to the community. More than half of the projects are sponsored by external clients where students are mentored by practicing engineers.
Student projects from each program are presented during the annual symposium.
2024 Design Symposium
The 2024 Engineering Design Symposium was a virtual and in-person event hosted at the Wu Conference Centre.
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
- 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Virtual and in-person: Wu Conference Centre
- Open to the public
- Free of charge
2024 Engineering Design Symposium winners
Chemical Engineering
First Place: Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade for Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station - I. M. Lousise Kamana, M. Ibrahim, A. Rathinavelu, J. Weaver
Second Place: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of a Lime Kiln, Irving Pulp and Paper - A. Kerr, B. MacDonald, M. Lipsett, C. Smith
Third Place: Producing Hydrogen from Waste Aluminum Dross - J. Ellis, P. Levesque, J. Seamans, M. Turnbull
Civil Engineering and Geological Engineering
Best technical report and best presentation, Civil Engineering: Serenity Lane-Rainsford Lane Active Transportation Connection - Z. DesRoches, L. Harris, K. Kirkbride, K. MacLean
First Place, Civil Engineering: Fish Passage Potential on Aboiteaux Structures within the Bay of Fundy - H. Morrissey, M. Buzas, S. Butland, B. Maclean
Second Place, Geological Engineering: Slope Stability along the West River Road - C. Galaise, M. Probert, A. Snodgrass, E. Young, J. Hogan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
John F. Murphy Prize ($1000 for Any Concentration): Force Myography Wearable Device (Electrical Design) - J. MacPherson, L. Morrison, R. Meredith, S. Boyd
John F. Murphy Prize ($1000 for Power/Renewable Energy): Nanogrid Nexus (Software Design) - C. Fiander, C. Davis, Y. Rizk, J. Soehner, B. Irvine
Software engineering prize ($1000): AI House Predictor (Software Design) - M. Lalonde, R. Greenan, T. Donovan, G. Tamayo, B. Jacobs
IEEE NB Section Prize ($600): CubeSat NB, Satellite Comm & Ground Station - B. MacEwen, C. Corscadden, P. Ainguah, T. Stewart
Geodesy and Geomatics
First Place ($1000): The future of earthquake damage detection; Using AI to detect damages with off-nadir satellite imagery - A. Barrieau, S. McNally, A. Nielsen
Second Place ($750): Viability of aerial GPR for infrastructure planning - C. Rafuse, E. Speziale, N. Tubb
Third Place ($500): QuickAssess AI; Automation of the property assessment process - R. Matchett, C. Paul, G. Mathers
ANBLS Award ($500): Supplementing legal survey plans for virtual home buyers - Z. Economou, D. Fox, S. Sawler
Best Poster: The next step for crop rotations; Using satellite interferometry for predictive analysis - R. Hughes, C. O'Neill, J. Rees
Technology Management and Entrepreneurship
First Place ($1000): Reactive Power - S. Ables, T. Vickers, N. Burns
Second Place ($500): TactiX - M. Kassimi, I. Khan, R. McIntosh, M. Nguyen
