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º£½ÇÉçÇø Design Day 2026

Meet the new generation of º£½ÇÉçÇø Faculty of Engineering designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs

Rencontrez la nouvelle génération de concepteurs, innovateurs et entrepreneurs de la Faculté de génie de º£½ÇÉçÇø

Event detailsÌý´¥ Floor plans | Student projectsÌý´¥ Sponsors


º£½ÇÉçÇø 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.

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.


º£½ÇÉçÇø Design Day 2026 at a glance

Event details

April 9, 2026
11:00 AM –
4:00 PM

SSMU Ballroom andÌýCafeteria 201-A (3480 McTavish St)

The venue is wheelchair accessible. If you require any accommodations, please contact the raeanne.pollard [at] mcgill.ca (Design Day team).
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Floor plans

SSMU Ballroom

SSMU Cafeteria 201-A

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Student projects

Bioengineering

BIO01 AI-assisted production of novel terpenoids with high affinity for serotonin receptor systems
Edward Tong, Tri Vinh Truong

BIO03 In-vitro production of template DNA for mRNA manufacturing
Alex Butler, Han Ru Liu, Kori Zhang

BIO04 Microfluidic platform for sequential integration of vascular cells and islet organoids
Giselle De Leon

BIO05 Optimization of a radiofrequency ablation system for the treatment of uterine fibroids using conductive injectable solutions
Emma Geoffroy, Anne-Frederic Laurin, Claire Levasseur, Alexandra Schuck

BIO06 Developing a robotic bioprinter for reconstructive esophagectomy procedures
Felix Lavoie, Martin Pone, Aaron Xiao, Jun Xiao, Yitian Zhang

BIO07 Design and fabrication of a custom franz diffusion cell and PVA membrane for the characterization of nanovesicle diffusion kinetics
Juan Manuel Rocha Angel, Eve Barrette-Vanasse, Gabriel Linaje-Ferrel, Syphax Ramdan, Anna Xuyao Shi

BIO08 Polyfold: evaluation of two leading open-source molecular structure prediction algorithms to inform their utility in diverse biological applications
Michelle Levy, Joseph Marsilio, Victor Novakov, Henry Stephenson, Dan Voicu

BIO09 Development of an open-source 3D bioprinter with multi-extrusion capabilities to print bronchial constructs comprised of multiple lung cell types
Julianna Bede, Laurianne Daoust, Milana Farah, Osandi Pallemulla Hewage, Letizia Marello

BIO10 Design of a low-cost bioprinter with a coaxial ionic crosslinker misting system for automated hydrogel-based tumoroid fabrication
Liela Andringa, Rachel Jung, Alex Jung, Yousif Al Shajlawi

BIO11 Screening of engineered yeast strains and statistical optimization of fermentation parameters for the production of β-carotene in shake-flasks and benchtop bioreactors
Moriah Campbell, Eloise Soderbom, Iris Sun, Ella Wang

BIO12 Yeast metabolism investigation for fermentation of non-alcoholic beer
Mika Chang, Josh Negenman, Liam Sterne

BIO13 Modeling and economic analysis of process intensification for trastuzumab manufacturing
Mario Jardon, Archinlin Wang

BIO14 Spatio-temporal modeling of biomedical data with video diffusion models
Elliot Cole, Toky Raharison Ralambomihanta, Yitao (Eric) Sun, Jackson Yu

Bioresource Engineering

BIOR04 Water independence in urban gardens: design a self-sufficient water collection system in a community garden
Marie-Anne Dessureault, Natasha Lyons, Laura Tremblay, Sarah Wambolout

BIOR01W Pneumatic electrical trigger to improve nitrogen cannons for avalanche control
Phillipe Charest, Khloe Lu, Aleix Toews

BIOR01F Digestate to clean water: an algae-based approach
Tristan Brunger, Kevin Fitzsimmons

BIOR05 Design of automated irrigation system for orchid production
Imad Boumenna

Electrical and Computer Engineering

DP-01 Investigation and modeling of thin film lithium niobate intesity modulated/direct detection (IM/DD) optical links for GPU server interconnects
Antoine Coderre-Chouinard, Benjamin Gervais, Maverick Hoziel, Lukas Kuhzarani, Aristides Zergiotis

DP-02 Bridging wearables and medicine: a unified data capture solution
Laurent Chiricota, Maria El-Hage, Jessie Kurtz, Samy Sabir, Vladimir Venkov

DP-03 Machine learning-assisted design correction and performance analysis of photonic devices
Marcello Audino, Max Bernhart, Emile Labrunie, Muhammed Husnain Mohiudin

DP-04 Prometheus swarm - Hoverbot
Joel Boyer, Andrew Nemr, Emilie Ruel, Fabian Saldana, Ethan Wu, Patrick Zakaria

DP-05 Integration of a robotic system for automated cyclic voltammetry antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST)
Rami El-Nawam, William Gagnon-Desharnais, Yvehenry Julsain, Marshall Moussavi, Michael Popescu, Estelle Saab

DP-06 GenAI for teachers
Teddy El-Husseini, Mohamed El-Machmouchi, Ali Khasawneh, David Marji, Brian Morava, Anders Woodruff

DP-07 Portable electrotactile text-to-braille scanner
Matthew Liogas, Ambroise Tauzia, Rui Yi Wang, Tina Zhang

DP-08 Haptic feedback for hydration and vital-sign monitoring
Ryan Barile, Frederic Bernatchez, Matthew Dybka, Alessandro De Fredericis

DP-09 On-device machine learning ethics for automatic speech recognition models
Sydney Brajer, Amy Ding, Sophia Li, James Madden, Kennedy Olsen

DP-10 Antenna scheduling system
Lena Bousserhane, Adam Corbier, Noor Jetha, Sirine Tarhouni

DP-12 Healthy UI: chrome extension
Jonathan Batanian, Martin Eskaros, Farhad Guliyev, Vivek Motta, Shu Tian

DP-13 MAGS - motorized antenna for ground station
Karl Bouez, Christopher Tse on Fat, Danny Hatoum, Robin Kilgour, Alex Lee, Omar El Sayed

DP-14 Multi-modal neuro-reasoning medical agent
Loïc Duchesne, Manuel Hanna, Ang Li, Cher Li, Hujun Ni, Nara Yun

DP-15 Holoportation: live 3D object capture and transmission for CSA’s AR astronaut training
Mahmoud Amin, Namir Habib, Thibaut Chan Teck Su, Haoyuan Sun

DP-16 ER-queue
Steve Chen, Cody Choo-Foo, Maxime Courchesne, Connor Tate

DP-17 Comparative analysis of large language models in automated state machine design
Mohamed Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Tiffany Miller, Marc-Antoine Nadeau, Rehean Thillainathalingam

DP-18 º£½ÇÉçÇø Formula Electric driverless electrical integration
Mathieu Godbout, Raj Kirpalani, Chris Loh, Mathieu Pestel

DP-19 Benchmark for LLM-based code generation with domain models
Mohamed Abdelhady, Philippe Aprahamian, Tarek El-Akkaoui, Jude Sousou

DP-20 Real-time surgical data extraction from patient monitors
Yoonjung Choi, Kyujin Chu, Sara Tahdi, Sophia Xu, Mingxuan Yue, Eric Zhu

DP-21 Autonomous last-mile drone delivery testing platform
Alan Brotherton, John-Paul Chouery, Samy Harras, Yuheng Liu, Martin Paiva

DP-22 Benchmark for LLM-based code generation with domain model
Sara Andari, Alice Godbout, Sebastian Reinhardt, Arjun Sharma

DP-23 Healthy UI
Hamza Alfarrash, Ahmed Mossa, Omar Moussa, Anastasiia Nemyrovska

DP-24 Cyberglass
Simon Cao, Yuting Li, Simiao Rao, Cleo Tang

DP-25 MARA (mobile app for robotic arms)
Emilia Gagne, Julia Grenier, Antoine Phan, Camille Pouliot

DP-26 Electrical and mechanical analogue modelling of patent ductus arteriosus for clinical decision support
Annabelle Huynh-Rondeau, Ian Moore, Melissa Qian, Clementine Ruiz, Jason Shao

DP-27 Development of an electric control unit and electronically actuated continuously variable transmission (CVT) for application on a Baja SAE series vehicle
Pierre-Olivier Bluteau, Remy Laurendeau, Diana Rekkas, Radu Andrei Takacs

DP-28 R1D4 - hospital assist robot project
Jérôme Desrosiers, Natalia Andrea Lucena Henao, Isbat-ul Islam, Paul Kevorkov, Behrad Rezaie, Yuri Sorice

DP-29 On-orbit collision avoidance assistant
Camilo Berdugo, Pei Yan Geng, Neeshal Imrit, Li Yang Le, Dmytro Martyniuk, Luis Jarquin Romero

DP-30 Building a scalable machine learning pipeline for diabetes biomarkers
Julien Audel, Rico Li, Kevin Li, Tim Pham, Anastasis Lamprianos Stappas, William Wang

DP-31 Modular phased array for Bluetooth direction finding
Justin Jradi, Alex Maalouf, Alek Polesky, Joseph Saab

DP-32 Vectorized knowledge base for enhancing diagnostic model determinism
Mathieu Allaire, Vlad Arama, Ben Bouhdana, Jatin Patel, Leon Song

DP-33 Learning directly and continually from preferences
Nicolas Bolouri, Liam Di Chiro, Luke Freund, Amgad El Gamal, Achraf Ghellach

DP-34 OFFRgrocery: development of an AI assistant grocery app
Houman Azari, Alexander Liu, Raymond Liu, Colin Xiong

DP-35 AI-assisted pre-operative assessment: enhancing ASA prediction and anesthesia planning
Sahar Fathi, Sofia Galanopoulos, Tayba Jusab, Mona Kalaoun, James Luu

DP-36 AI agents for academic productivity
Lynn Haddad, Soraya Jureidini, Daniel Reimer, Joseph Rossi, Karl Stephan, Tara Zovighian

DP-37 DesignÌýandÌýimplementationÌýofÌýaÌýsignalÌýamplificationÌýmoduleÌýforÌýaÌý16-antennaÌýbreastÌýcancerÌýdetectionÌýsystem
Marleine Atalla, Zheng Yuan Shi, Luka Werner, Yunxiao Zhang

DP-38 Combined thermal and flow imaging in plasmonic PCR system
Eason Chen, Jeremy Tu, Yuran Wang, Zhibo Wang

DP-39 Linear and geometric approaches to satellite attitude control
Kenz Zaghib

HT-01 Thermostatically controlled load model for improved grid flexibility
Cesar Leonardo Villa

HT-02 Transmission expansion planning in greenfield systems with battery energy storage
Anh Ngo

HT-03 Multi-stakeholder stochastic optimization for district scale energy planning with DERs
Fadi Abou El Hassan

HT-04 Radai-inertial state estimation for autonomous navigation
Irene Simier

HT-05 RF domain-aware object detection for the classification and time-frequency localization of GNSS interference
Gabriel Kersessov

HT-06 Evaluation of machine learning prediction models for estimating the outage duration using historical utility data
Dorothy Ma

HT-07 Goal-conditioned robotic manipulation with flow matching
Yanlin Zhu

HT-08 Color decomposition and sub-rule extraction of arc problems
Hongshuo Min

HT-09 Musical telepresence: augmented reality for synchronous musical interaction
Michel El-Hallal

Mechanical Engineering

A | Folding arm joint for drone
Fouad Al-Laham, Salman Dajani, Charles Morin, Karim Saliba

AA | Project 11: design and improvement - off-grid water supply
Ali Azam, Alexandru Finca, Jonny Guertin, Daniel Krykhtin

AB | Biomimetic system for low water use
Jakob Bieri, Léana Haibeh, Ross Tansey, Stefano Yazbek

AC | Touching innovation: prototype of a portable 3D scanning system for pediatric end-of-life mementos
Benjamin Blanshay, Alexie Burns, Zhehao He, Damian Loch

B | Electronically actuated continuously variable transmission (E-CVT) for racing applications in Baja SAE
Junan Tasnin Alam, Max Finch, Khawaja Azwad Shahri, Gavin Williams

C & BIO02 | Development of a superior vertebral implant for percutaneous spine interventions
Sophie Allard, Jad Ashkar, Oscar Cruz, Toufic Jrab, Elisabeth Lawton

D | Redesigning and rebuilding a safe electrospinning apparatus
Charles Barreaud, Nikita Carelov, Youssef Elghobary, Vincent Theberge

E | Custom detox system for artificial seawater
Matthew Adams, Emile Boudreau, Ella Godun, Alex Laurin

F | Designing interior window inserts for existing buildings to improve airtightness and thermal performance
Deniz Emre, Jana Hajj-Hassan, Mira Muhanna, Riad Tahan

G | Design of a testing rig for kidney stones removal
Jordan Buchanan, Stephen Evuleocha, Isaac Hall, Eliott Rozental

H | Bidirectional cable-driven ankle exoskeleton
Marlon Hautecoeur, Ethan Jacques, Alex Rosen, Gabin Vernon

I | Development of a testing setup to assess coating adherence of a new liquid biopsy
Elias Adb-El-Nour, Joseph Iacono, Joe-Najm Matar, Jason Wong

J | Forcing sensing integration for ultrasound probes
Georges Ayoub, Simon Le Beuf, Juliette Fogarty, Anna Imbert

K | Design of a modular compliance test rig for º£½ÇÉçÇø Formula Electric
Lora Izambard, Victoria Loumaye, Maxime Filion, Kells Moore

L | Modular motorized attachment for manual wheelchair
Midori Hamagaki-Richard, Shiuan Lee, Patrice Legare, Markus Maile

M | Design of a portable continuum robot for ear, neck and throat surgery
Zachary Flynn, Russel Ismael, Laurence Liang, Maxim Petkun, Nicholas Rochwerger

N | Design of an anatomincally correct dynamic aorta phantom for the TAVR procedure
Aidan Bouden, Glen Gaige, Yingtong Luo, Elaine Yang

O | Design of an external adaptive damping module for an FSAE race car suspension damper
Estelle Huy, Jonas Maarek, Eric Masselot, Rocco Racioppo

P | Automating rework dough batching and handling for consistency in industrial pizza crust production
Mika Gagné, Maxime Gourmelen, Adam Messier, Panagiotis Torabi

Q | Adhesive-based roller cleaner robot
Aidan Kimberley, Henri Lapointe, Antoine Malenfant, Dylan Myers

R | Design of a modular bench-scale rocket engine test stand for the º£½ÇÉçÇø Rocket Team
Benjamin Jackler, Martin Michaut, Esteban Perreault, Louis Raillat

S | P1: artificial skin platforms for studying insect biting and stinging behavior
Tran Huynh, Emma Marc-Boyle, Mikaela Phung, Matteo Venturelli

T | Hoop deployment mechanism for cube sat demonstration of plasma magnet propulsion
Samuel Chavolla, Grady McConnell, Jocelyn Poon, Yazmin Purdon

U | Back support exoskeleton test bench for torque and force measurement
Adam McCormick, Simon Radhakrishna, Cameron Rowat, Christopher Storozuk

V | Motorized music mallet stand to assist children with disabilities
Jessica Mizrahi, Garner Ross, Andrew Titleman, Sahra Zimmer

W | Drone-based seed dispersal system for afforestation
William Van Hove, Saif Qureshi, Thomas St-Cyr, Ludovic Talbot

X | Design and fabrication of a radiolucent jig for controlled evaluation of human torsos under rotation and translation.
Celine Choueiry, Sarah Hanna, Saba Salamat, Simer Virk

Y | Integration of rotational motion in liquid biopsy device testing rig
Lucas Bessai, Eadoin Burns, Alan Deng, Pascal Williams

Z | A mechanical wildfire defense system for residential structures
Armain Labeeb, Colas Taylor, Efe Topcu, Willem Yates

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Sponsors

Design Day is made possible thanks the following internal sponsors:

NSERC Chair of Design in Engineering, º£½ÇÉçÇø 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

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Engine Capstone Design Prizes

º£½ÇÉçÇø Engine Centre is offering the Engine Capstone Design Prizes to eligible Capstone Design teams participating in the 2026 Design Day.

Teams are invited to submit their applications by March 29, 2026, for a chance to win up to $300 in cash prizes.

For more information, please visit the Engine Capstone Design Prize page.

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