Senior Design
Senior Design (BE 4950 and 4960) is a full year capstone project for Bioengineering. Students, working in groups, conceive, design, and develop a bioengineering project, whether a medical device, molecular biological therapeutic, or research tool. Projects are inherently interdisciplinary, and can involve biomaterials, electronics, mechanics, molecular biology, nanotechnology, and microfluidics.
Funding for this class is made possible in part through the generosity of the Benjamin and Anne A. Pinkel Endowed Student Projects Fund. The fund was established through a generous gift from Sheila Pinkel on behalf of the estate of her parents, Benjamin and Anne A. Pinkel, and serves as a memorial tribute to the lives of her parents. Benjamin Pinkel received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930.
Senior Design 2023-2024
Instructors: Erin Berlew, David Meaney, Dayo Adewole
Directing Project Manager: Erin Anderson (PhD 2024)
Teaching Assistant: Afua Nkansah-Andoh (Masters 2025)
Project Managers: Jerry Gao (BE 2023, Masters 2024), Melanie Hilman (BE 2020, Masters 2021, PhD 2026), Jessica Ling (BE 2023, Masters in Robotics 2024), Riya Mathur (Masters 2024), Henry Plamondon (Masters 2024)
Accolades (by team number):
Team 01 - ADONA - Bioengineering Senior Design Competition Winner, Finalist at the Student Design Showcase at the 2024 Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota, Semi-Finalist at the 2024 Rice360 Global Health Design Technologies Conference, Semi-finalist at the 2024 Texas Christian University's Values and Ventures Competition
Team 02 - OASIS -3rd Place in Global Health at the 2024 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition
Team 04 - VITAFLOW - 3rd Place at the at the Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2024) Undergraduate Senior Design Poster Competition
Team 05 - Erias - Semi-Finalist at the 2024 Rice360 Global Health Design Technologies Conference
Team 06 - See-Rynge - Finalist at the Student Design Showcase at the 2024 Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota, finalist for the 2024 President’s Innovation Prize
Team 08 - LAPPI - 1st place winner for the 2024 SB3C/NSF Undergraduate Student Design Competition, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Prize at the 2024 Rice360 Global Health Design Technologies Conference
Team 10 - Epilog - Bioengineering Senior Design Competition Winner, Winner of the Technology and Innovation Prize at Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition
Team 11 - NG-LOOP - Bioengineering Senior Design Competition Winner
Team 14 - DRIPPY - 2nd Place at the Student Design Showcase at the 2024 Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota
Senior Design 2022-2023
Instructors: Erin Berlew, Sevile Mannickarottu, and David Meaney
TAs / Project Managers: Erin Anderson (BE PhD 2023), Julia Dunn (BE 2022, Masters 2023), Melanie Hilman (BE 2020, Masters 2021, PhD 2026), & Alexa Rybicki (BE 2022, Masters 2023)
Accolades (by team number):
Team 01 - BAMBI - Bioengineering Senior Design Competition Winner; Winner of the Technology and Innovation Prize at Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition; Winner for the 2023 Medronic/BMES Student design competition in the category, AI/ML related to treatment of Cardiac, Respiratory, or Stroke diseases; Finalist at the Student Design Showcase at the 2023 Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota; Advanced Health Finalist for the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition.
Team 02 - StablEyes - Bioengineering Senior Design Competition Winner; Winner of the Judges' Choice Award at Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition; Finalist at the Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2023) Undergraduate Senior Design Poster Competition; Advanced Health Finalist for the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition.
Team 03 - UroSmart - Advanced Health Finalist for the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition; Semi-finalist at the Student Design Showcase at the 2023 Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota; Validation Award from the Penn Wharton Innovation Fund.
Team 04 - Stabel - Semi-Finalist at the 2023 Rice360 Global Health Design Technologies Conference; Global Health Finalist for the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition.
Team 05 - inSPIRE - Bioengineering Senior Design Competition Winner; Winner (as AeroLux) for the 2023 Medronic/BMES Student design competition in the category, Electrical/Computer Science; First place winner for the 2023 SB3C/NSF Undergraduate Student Design Competition; Accepted into the VIP-X 3-month accelerator program.
Team 06 - minerva - Semi-Finalist at MIT's Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge.
Team 08 - Smart-C - Global Health Finalist for the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition; Semi-Finalist at the 2023 Rice360 Global Health Design Technologies Conference; Semi-Finalists in the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs at Smith College; Grant winner from the Penn Wharton Innovation Fund.
Team 11 - Sonura - Winner of the 2023 President's Innovation Prize; 1st Place Winner in Advanced Health for the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition; Founders' Award of $5000 at Texas Christian University's Values and Ventures Competition; Semi-Finalists in the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs at Smith College; Finalist for "Optimizing Health Span" at the Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge; Finalist at Emerging Medical Innovation Valuation Competition at the 2023 Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota; Semi-Finalist at the Venture Lab Startup Challenge.
Senior Design 2021-2022
Instructors: Sevile Mannickarottu, David Meaney, and Michael Siedlik
TAs / Project Managers: Erin Anderson (BE PhD 2023), Melanie Hilman (BE 2020, Masters 2021, PhD 2026), Jonathan Mairena (BE 2021, Masters 2022), & JeongInn Park (BE 2021, Masters 2022).
Accolades (by team number):
Team 1 - MEViD - Second Place at the 2022 M&T Summit; Finalist at the Design of Medical Devices Conference at the University of Minnesota; Finalist for the Global Health Track of the 2022 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition.
Team 2 - MOD EZ-IO - Winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2022.
Team 3 - Harvest by Grapevine - Winner of the 2022 President's Innovation Prize; Winner of the Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund; Penn Wharton Innovation Fund Implementation Award Winner; Semifinalist for the Venture Lab 2022 Startup Challenge; Finalist for the Pear Startup Competition; Finalist for the Pear Accelerator; Finalist for the Wharton MBA Fund Pitch Competition; Finalist for the Digital Health Track of the 2022 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition.
Team 6 - Chrysalis - Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner; People's Choice Award for the Rice 360 Global Health Design competition; Third Place in the Penn Nursing Innovation Accelerator Competition; Finalist in the Advanced Health Track of the 2022 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition.
Team 7 - EquitOx - Winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2022.
Team 8 - Modulo Prosthetics - Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner; Third Place in the Rice 360 Global Health Design Competition; Venture Labs Penn Wharton Innovation Fund Validation Award; Winner of the Technology and Innovation Prize at Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition.
Team 9 - Cygno Technologies: Cor-Assist - Second Place in the Emerging Medical Innovation Valuation Competition at the University of Minnesota; Winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2022.
Team 10 - Pedalytics - Finalist in the M&T Innovation Fund Competition; Penn Wharton Innovation Fund Implementation Award Winner; Winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2022.
Team 11 - ReiniSpec - Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner; Winner of the Leadership Prize at Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition; Winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2022.
Senior Design 2020-2021
Instructors: Brian DiPaolo, Sevile Mannickarottu, and David Meaney
TAs / Project Managers: Erin Anderson (BE PhD 2023), Sophie Burkholder (BE 2020, Masters 2021), Melanie Hilman (BE 2020, Masters 2021), & Vera Lee (BE 2020, Masters 2021).
Accolades (by team number):
Team 4 - Tula - Grand prize winner of the Weiss Tech House Senior Design Pitch Competition for 2021 and a winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2021.
Team 5 - RHO Therapeutics - Semi-finalist in the Rice 360 Design competition for 2021.
Team 7 - IdentiFly - Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner.
Team 8 - TeleMedTree - Winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2021.
Team 9 - OtoAI - Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner, winner of a Wharton Venture Labs Innovation Fund Validation Phase Award for 2020, and winner of the Technology and Innovation Prize at Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition.
Team 11 - rUmVa - Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner and winner of a Berkman Opportunity Fund for 2021. rUmVa also won the "Best Application Award" (Video) for the Medical Robotics for Contagious Diseases Challenge for 2021, as part of the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics at Imperial College, London.
Senior Design 2019-2020
Instructors: Brian DiPaolo, Sevile Mannickarottu, and David Meaney
TAs / Project Managers: Erin Anderson (BE PhD 2023), Abbas Idris (BE Masters 2021), Michael Magaraci (BE 2013, BE PhD 2021), Kayla Prezelski (BE 2019, BE Masters 2020), and Jared Rifkin (BE 2019, BE Masters 2020).
Accolades (by team number):
Team 5 - relieVR - RelieVR was a Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner and was the 2nd Place Winner of the 2020 International Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design Healthcare Design Competition Digital Health Track and winner of the 2019 Berkman Prize for Innovation at Penn Engineering.
Team 10 - SchistoSpot - This team was a Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner and also won the "Pioneer Award" at Penn Health-Tech's Rothberg Catalyzer in 2019.
Team 13 - Relila - Relila was a Bioengineering Senior Design competition winner and won 2nd place at the 2020 M&T Summit.