Widener Engineering Students Sweep ASME Philadelphia Project Competition Awards
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Philadelphia section recently awarded two teams of Widener engineering students all three of its engineering project competition awards, after judging projects from five area colleges and universities.
The annual competition supports senior design engineering projects.
Widener’s biomedical engineering team won honors for best oral presentation and best overall presentation. The team project, adivsed by Associate Professor Saeed Tiari, chair of biomedical engineering, was titled “Smart Prosthetic Sleeve for Temperature Control.” Students on the team included Kayleigh Armstrong, Yamen Jlilati, Akem Kpuyuf and Victoria Rebelo.
The mechanical engineering team won the best poster award. The team project, advised by Assistant Professor Conor Marr and sponsored by Boeing and supported by Parker Lord, was titled “Design of an Isolator Fatigue Test Table.” The team included students Boston Blake, Nicholas Campanella, Jonathan Custer, Anthony Husbands, Lukas Nachimson and Michael Walker.
The awards were judged by industry professionals in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers who looked at the scope of the work, its applicability to industry and the students’ abilities to clearly present, explain and defend their designs. Widener students competed against nine other engineering student design teams out of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Villanova University and Thomas Jefferson University.
The competition began in the fall with a record number of proposals submitted to the society from multiple universities in the region Widener’s two teams were selected to receive a $600 award each to support development of their projects and were selected as finalists to attend the society banquet. They presented the culmination of their work at the society’s banquet on April 21 and won all three competition prizes.