Meet the new generation of ³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ Faculty of Engineering designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs
Rencontrez la nouvelle génération de concepteurs, innovateurs et entrepreneurs de la Faculté de génie de ³ÉÈË´óƬ
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³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ Design Day showcases engineering design projects and celebrates the achievements of our students in the fields of: engineering design, aerospace, biomaterial, electronics, bioengineering, resource management, software engineering, sustainability, thermodynamics/ thermofluids, vehicular technologies, virtual reality, 3d printing, machine learning, manufacturing, power and electricity, and robotics.
Note: The venue is wheelchair accessible. If you require any accommodations, please contact the raeanne.pollard [at] mcgill.ca (Design Day team).
Design Day vise à présenter des projets de conception d'ingénierie et de célébrer les réalisations de nos étudiants dans plusieurs domaines tels: conception en genie, aérospaciale,  biomatériaux, electroniques, bioingégnerie, gestion de ressources, ingénerie logicielle, durabilté, thermodynamiques, thermofluides, technologies de véhicules, realité virtuelle, impression 3d, apprentissage automatique, fabrication, énergie et electricité, robotique.
Note : Le lieu est accessible aux fauteuils roulants. Si vous avez besoin d'aménagements, veuillez contacter raeanne.pollard [at] mcgill.ca (±ô'é±ç³Ü¾±±è±ð).
³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ Design Day 2025 at a glance
Event Details
April 8, 2025
11:00AM – 4:00PM
SSMU Ballroom andÌýCafeteria 201-A (3480 McTavish St)
Floor Plans
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Student Projects
Bioengineering
BIOENG 1 Treatment of chronic sinusitis headache with electrical patches using microcurrent stimulation
Tianrui Wang
BIOENG 2 Developing a rational device design for regulated drainage in glaucoma filtration surgery
David Bettan, Christopher Coluni, Adi Orlov, and Mark Tchinov
BIOENG 3 Cell-free production of template DNA to support mRNA production
Taisei Fu, Olivia Lopardo, Berine Wehbeh, and Emma Wong
BIOENG 4 Cryocatheter ablation of the gallbladder: a novel treatment for cholecystitis
Kelliane Béland, Joseph Grotsky, Zachary Gurbery, and Olivia Ouellet
BIOENG 5 TapTomics 2.0
Yaman Al Janaideh, Steven Xu, Laura Jahchan, Serena Kim, and Quinten Bennett
BIOENG 6 Development of a porous microneedle patch for transdermal therapeutics
Reefah Kabir, Lila Oualim, Dalya Messaoudi, Sidrah Alousi-Jones, and Floraine Baudin
BIOENG 7 Deep generative models for representing and synthesizing multiple sclerosis patient 3D MRI images
Mona Wang, and Ritchie Yu
BIOENG 8 An investigation into gas bubble dynamics under vacuum in mimicked blood vessel channels
Ella Gadoury, Massimilliano Garzia, Olivier Morin, and Samuel Nidelli
BIOENG 9 Flux balance analysis of S. Cervisiae for the in silico optimization of metabolic fluxes in the mevalonate Pathway
Laura Hebert, Liam Fetherstonhaugh, Sophie McLean, and Haley Janvrin
BIOENG 10 Computer controlled gas mixing system for probing neural circuits of respiratory function
Olivia Clague, Leticia Le Goff, Vanessa Piche, and Andrew Xie
BIOENG 11 Development of a neuromusculoskeletal model for the prediction of voluntary torque of the human ankle
Ingi El Shahid
BIOENG 12 Development of an integrated radiofrequency coil and shim array for ultra-high field mri of the brain
Rusvir Trana, Chloe Jacquet, Graeme McDougall, and Grace Shi
BIOENG 13 Estimations of atomic hydrophobicity using molecular dynamics
Angela Wang, and Kevin Xu
BIOENG 14 Tissue clearing for high resolution 3D imaging of rodent brain vasculature
Trinity Fearon
BIOENG 15 Engineering substrate selectivity and catalytic activity of taxadiene 5 a-hydroxylase involved in early steps of taxol biosynthesis
Sara Fraser, Beth Cushnie, Leanne Gauthier, and Gabriel Straface
BIOENG 16 Design and fabrication of microfluidics for optical and electrical sensing
Akash Aniche, Arnaud Benchetrite, Andrea Khoury, Inès Hafit, Yzza Msahi, and Mathilde Wagner
BIOENG 18 Development of a parallelized light-induced protein micropatterning technique for high-throughput patterned-based contractility screening (PaCs) applications
Di Ah Lim
BIOENG 19 Continuous wearable bladder state detection technology through microwave sensing for urinary incontinence
Tuna Gedik, Emmanuel Menacho Tardieu, Karim Mustafa, and John Eric Hamilton
BIOENG 20 Development of a standardized machine for multi-tissue extracellular matrix decellularization
Ian Chuang, Michael Parsons, Ayoub Rabhi, and Alain Peng Zhang
Bioresource Engineering
BIORES 1 Primary treatment optimization for morehouse foods Canada’s wastewater
Linda Wu, Laurie Bernier, and Simone Cole
BIORES 3 Optimization software for developing a sustainable hydrogen refueling network in Quebec's freight sector
Malik Cherrat, and Karim Hoyek
BIORES 5 Sand filtration system for reducing turbidity of recycling drainage water on Tourne-Sol farm
Sophie Guite
BIORES 11 Sustainable water management system for factory acceptance testing processes
Martin Ma, Justin Siegman, Camille Laboisse, and Isabella Vignuzzi
BIORES 12 Optimizing apple usage with advanced ethylene gas monitoring
Sara Lapointe, Jasper Sieniewicz, and Danaé Gilbert
BIORES 14 Design of a nutrient delivery system for a lunar greenhouse
Molly Keyes, and Lara Szabo-Banicz
BIORES 16 Flood resilience in vaudreuil-dorion: strategies for managing urban stormwater runoff
Marie-Eve Hebert, Sarah Wakeling, and Anthony McCall
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 1 ASIC Implementation of a rocket ejection circuit
Oliver Yun
ECE 2 Porting JAMScript to ESP32
Gabriel Huppe, Howard Yu, Qihao Wu, and Zichen Gao
ECE 3 Office support app for not-for-profit companies
Qi Chen, Yida Pan, Zahra Landou, and Meriem Semmar
ECE 4 GreenLlama: an energy efficient and socially aware llama deployment
Bill Zimmerman, Souhail El-Hayani, Sofia Velasquez Sierra, and Haroun Gessuous
ECE 5 State machine driven LLM framework for UML model automation
Samar Abdulkarim, Evan Boyd, Alec Tufenkijan, and Karl Bridi
ECE 6 Solar wind AI
Aiden Bierstock, Eric Dayan, Platon Leftakis, and Maxx Railton
ECE 7 Holoportation: live 3D object capture and transmission for CSA's AR astronaut training
Roxanne Archambault, Aleksej Dejanov, Anh Tu Nguyen, and Alex Turianskyj
ECE 8 Ai-Digital Nurse Avatar (ADiNA)
Nazia Chowdhury, Yu An Lu, Annie Gouchee, and Allison Hall
ECE 9 Control system for high altitude balloon
Adam-Philippe Trottier, Lili Begin, Alexandru Adrian, and Eduard Anton
ECE 10 Automated cavity detection using image processing and deep learning
Idris Hachemi, Simon Younaki, Andrew Chirita, and Moncef Amchech
ECE 11 Machine learning for identifying neurons
Athmane Benarous, Shidan Javaheri, Siger Ma, and Thibaut Baguette
ECE 12 Redesigning JAMScript tools for high-performance and scalability
Jason Bergeron Meza, Woojin Jang, Jean Kaznji, and Andrei Sandor
ECE 13 Dietary health mitigation app
Nikolas Pasichnik, Lucy Zhang, Tessa Hason, and Samantha Perez Hoffman
ECE 14 Project ALTAIR: power and telemetry
Dakota Rolston, William Fontaine, Albert Caupin, and Nathan Savard
ECE 15 Mining software repositories
Karim El-Husseini, Al-Faysal Haidar, Joseph Roustom, and Zuhair Mesam Salwati
ECE 16 NerveGPS
Keith Crochetiere, Andrew Kan, Adam Simard, and Emmy Song
ECE 17 Robot R1-D4 with LMM and vision integration
Walid Aissa, Zakaria Benhssein, Jules Delabrousse, and Bilar Mokhtari
ECE 18 Cook
Massimo D'Errico, Le-Tao Li, Nicolas Murphy, and Kristian Myzegari
ECE 19 PULSE: play updates and live sports events
Matthew Cabral, Gianluca Piccirillo, Nabil Aminer, and Sasha Denouvilliez-Pech
ECE 20 Office support app for not-for-profit companies
Tarran Johnston, Marco Vidalon Baldeon, Yongde Yu, and Quentin Zhang
ECE 21 Office support app for not-for-profit companies
Shyam Desai, Mohammad Junaid Arif, Minji Chang, and Harry Park
ECE 22 Luminara
Lin Wei Li, Estefania Vazquez, Qin Xuan Xu, and William Zhang
ECE 23 Autonomous greenhouse
Steopa El Idrissi Lamghari, Zhanna Klimanova, David Ly, and Tran Tuan Khai Tuan Phan
ECE 24 Office support app for not-for-profit companies
Mohammed Elsayed, Abdul Ali, and Youssof Mohamed
ECE 25 Supervised machine learning for 3D blood vessel segmentation
Imad Baida, Landon Ra Dagenais, Charles Blancas, and Mohamed Elsamadouay
ECE 26 End-to-end optimization of optical communication links with deep learning
Charlie Gil, Tom Haene, and Alexandre Sleiman
ECE 28 Space Collison Prevention System (SCPS)
Radu Petrescu, Daniel Makhlin, Yassine Meliani, and Shady Guindi
ECE 29 Splash agentic features
Samuel Faubert, Rashya Anggaraksa, Winnie Yongru Pan, and Yixuan Qin
ECE 30 Increasing energy efficiency in Canada: highspeed rail in the Montreal-Toronto corridor
Karen Dakkak, Patrick Zoghbi, Mario Ghorayeb, and Kale Rusaw
ECE 31 Design and fabrication of custom flexible PCB's for electrochemical biosensing and sweat collection via lontophoresis
Nicholas Sun, Pierre Khoury, Nardo Edward Jean Gilles, and Salim Benchekroun
ECE 32 Pipeline development to analyze high-resolution functional MRI and neurophysiology data
Justin Regoli, Marc Bretones, Nicolas Bosteels, and Mateo Ronflard
ECE 33 Dietary health mitigation app
Kevin Luo, Aymen Ouali, Eric Joung, and Androw Abd El Malak
ECE 34 CleverCut: automated haircutting solution
Athavan Thambimuthu, Daiyan Islam, Abhigyan Praveen, and Saviru Perera
ECE 35 On-orbit collision predictor
Wasif Somji, Yassine Mimet, Erik Cupsa, and Masa Kagami
ECE 36 R1-D4 app and swarm robots
Anjuli Singhal, Joey Hershkop, Paolo Bizzarri,and Noorjahon Abanty
ECE 37 SmartCart
Chrisovalantis Vatos, Jared Matthews, Sadek Mahmood, and Jasmine Taggart
ECE 38 Increasing energy efficiency in Germany: high-speed rail in developed nations as a means to reduce emissions
Karim Gorgy, Bassel Sharif, and Sameer Karam
ECE 39 Hospital robot simulation and the promethus AI
Eric Xia, and Yong-Jung Song
ECE DH1 Mining software repositories
Raphael Fontaine, Parsa Langari, Mahirul Islam, and Aditya Negi
ECE DT1 Optimal control of networked subsystems with asymmetric coupling
Mohamed-Amine Azzouz
ECE HT3 Machine learning based switching networks for hybrid precoding using dynamic array-of-subarrays
Jakob Rylo
Mechanical Engineering
MECH A Autonomous farming robot
Mohamed-anis mansour, Rui Wang,and Yingqi Wang, and David Gonzales
MECH AA Design of undertray and mid-wing aerodynamics and mechanical design for an FSAE electric race car
Alexander Casalanguida, Valentine Huy, Romain Vanmoen, and Louise Quincy
MECH AB Assembly and testing of a robotic spine system
Charles-Olivier Laroche, David Auclair-Borduas, Jacob Ahmad, and Afnan Waheed Ahmed
MECH B ³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ Baja Racing - gearabox overhaul
Anika Olsen, Red Singer, Achraf Maine, and Ada Santavy
MECH C Solar panel cleaning device
Annabel Jones, Ana Floarea, Avinash Lal, and James Peters
MECH D Propulsion and control for station-keeping of a high altitude balloon beacon
Michella Marj, Naya Estephan, Ahmad Achour, and Ryan Salman
MECH E Multi-surface cleaning attachment for drones
William Robinson, Justin Goodman, Kaiz Dhamani, and Jonah Dalfen
MECH F Design and fabrication of mechanical shock simulator for MDA Space
Alycia Arithoppah, Athanasios Dollas, Alessia Giannini, William Parada, Ricardo Percopo
MECH G Development of a suspension mechanism for the ³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ robotics rover
Wadih Al Helou, Lucie Giannoni, Loïcia Lopez, and Noa Garbarini
MECH H ARA robotics – underwater bathymetry probe
Karim Al Sabbagh, Nicolas Thirion, Frederic Vallee, and Auriano Julsain
MECH I P33: scout fish for water quality monitoring
Mark Teron, Menka Sharma, Sameer Riaz, and Yiwen (Chris) Liu
MECH J Analysis, development and manufacturing of a new steering assembly for MFE25
Cyril Comaty, Louis-Thomas Roy, Andy Cai, and Aidan Christoffersson
MECH K Design of a liquid cooling controller for an FSAE electric race
Francois-Xavier Duclos, Philip Becker, Marina Pereira, and Shridhar Baichoo
MECH L Fibreglass recycling: ecological process development through palletization
Louis-Charles Trottier, Anthony Albert, Sacha Perrin, and Nathan Zittoun
MECH M Design of a Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (COPV) for the ³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ Rocket Team
Jay Patel, Adrien Lenud, Natasha Chepel, and Thibaut Brague
MECH N MHD liquid metal column for a fusion reactor
Maxwell Au, Megan Boone, Louis Mounier, and Ana Quintero Garcia
MECH O The plasma magnet cubesat
Pierre-Antonin Thibault, Lorne McLeod, Conlan McConnell, and Séamus Kaip
MECH P Liquid-nitrogen temperature stage for super-resolution 3D fluorescence microscopy
Andrew Behling, Vanessa Manevska, Elio Saade, and Tianshu Liu
MECH Q Development of an environment cell for in-situ battery testing
Christian Hogikya, Sean Letchford, Matthew Korp, and Ralitsa Nedyalkova
MECH R Designing a novel device to treat uterine fibroid tumors
Caroline Thom, Adrian Szekely, Isabelle Ouimet, and Andrea Ramage
MECH S Easy to use off grid well water system
Jana Mouchaimech, Viviane-Laura Tain, Meriem Djafri, and Haoxuan Albert Li
MECH T Design and testing of a ventricular dynamic phantom to assess
Pierre Chamoun, Alexandre Chelhot, Julien Marcogliese, and Sarah Said
MECH U Automated polymer delivery system
Patrick Tufenkdjian, Andrew Lee, Amanda Hui, Owen Howard, and Matthew Janiszewski
MECH V Sustainable power: small-scale wind turbine made from recycled wind turbine blades
Sheng Qi, Philip Michael Iacono, Emanuele Magazzino, and Lucas Vorsanger
MECH W Parabolic mirror for laser induced fluorescence measurements in fluid mechanics
Sandra Gauthier, Vincent Moy, Ronan Mazaud, and Charles-Antoine Degardin-Sagnier
MECH X Redesigning moth-class sailboat hydrofoils
Youssef Abdelaal, Juan Carrau-Carrero, Alex Wang, Charlie Ruiz
MECH Y Design of easily manufacturable and repairable QuadPlane for experimentation and testing of flight controls during transition
Ghali Qaidi, Abdullah Taltello, Larissa Azzopardi, and Alois Luong
MECH Z Obstacle detection enhancement for standard white cane
Isfa Ur Rashid, Frederick Lupena, Syed Shah Abrar, and Zachary Tremblay
Sponsors
Design Day is made possible thanks the following internal sponsors:
NSERC Chair of Design in Engineering, ³ÉÈË´óÆ¬ Faculty of Engineering, Trottier Institute of Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Bioresource Engineering