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Engineering Design Symposium

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.

2026 winners

The 12th Annual Engineering Design Symposium was held on April 2, 2026.

First place ($1,000)

Hexoris Engineered for Extremes: Isaac Richard, Josh Pothier, Lance Keddy, Will Wilcox (Technology Management and Entrepreneurship)

Second place ($750)

Semi-Autonomous Platooning for Forestry Logistics: Caleb Enns, Darian Gray, Zack Duncan (Mechanical Engineering)

Third place ($350)

High-Power Battery Module: Benjamin Hughes, Christopher Taylor, Connor Breen, Tyler Jenkins (Electrical Engineering)

3D Printing Aboard a Ship: Craig Bush, Said Obaid, Vincent Poitras (Mechanical Engineering)


First place ($500)

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Recycling for Trailway Brewing: Myles Barnett, Ethan Crowley, Landen MacDonald

Second place ($300)

Small Scale Post-Combustion Carbon Capture: Jaswin Krishnamoorthy, Meghna Mandaliya, Mahmoud Moustafa, Noelle Tapley

Third place ($200)

Upgrading Chlorine Dioxide Generation to Support Project NextGen at Irving Pulp & Paper: Maxime Basque, Mackenzie Keenan, Luke Myers-Leblanc, Peter Nyenhuis


Best report

First place

Coastal Erosion and Seawall Rehabilitation at Miscou Island: Kate MacKenzie, Charles Toole, Maren Wheaton, Ava White

Second place

Low Carbon Concrete: An Evaluation of Natural Pozzolans from Southern NB as Supplementary Cementitious Materials: Jonathan Beers, Sean Beland, Callen Dockendorff

Third place

Route 105: Keswick River Bridge Replacement: Shawn Carrier, Cameron Harris, Rebekah Kierstead, Kyle Leblanc

Best presentation

First place

Big Hole Tract Subdivision Master Plan — Road, Trail, and Park Networks and Drainage Solution: Isaac Buchanan, Chandler Campbell, Josephine Chisholm, Félix-Adam Fournier, Olivia Gourley, Waylon Matchett

Second place

South Riverfront Walking Trail Berm Design: Nathanial Doiron, Lucy Kidney, Charlie MacPhee, Townsend Robichaud

Third place

Route 105: Keswick River Bridge Replacement: Shawn Carrier, Cameron Harris, Rebekah Kierstead, Kyle Leblanc

Best poster

First place

Coastal Erosion and Seawall Rehabilitation at Miscou Island: Kate MacKenzie, Charles Toole, Maren Wheaton, Ava White

Second place

Improving Concrete for the Future: Exploration and Mine Design for Pozzolanic Rocks in Southern NB: Sidney Easthouse, Shannon Hegger, Adam Helmke, Vele Rafa Nonan, Kayla Winters

Third place

Pabineau Band Office Design: Caleb Curwin, Daniel Kamala, Finlay Kearney-Staunton


John F. Murphy Prize in Electrical and Computer Engineering ($1,000 for any concentration)

CubeSat NB: VIOLET2 Satellite Comms System (B. Petersen, T. Lavigne): Blake Dauvin, Chris Carson, Morgan Kini, Olivia Gerry Rice

John F. Murphy Prize in Electrical and Computer Engineering ($1,000 for power/renewable energy project)

EV based Fast Frequency Regulation System: Mathieu Basque, Caleb Carr, Colin Higdon, Cameron Smith, Kohen Prince-Vautour

IEEE NB Section Prize ($1,200)

A Wireless Electrified Roadway Demonstration System (C. Rouse): Andrew Goulard, Christian McAuliffe, Maria Mahmood, Nicholas Ashfield

Excellence in SWE ($1,000)

SmartLIMS: Integrating Deep Learning into an ISO-Compliant Laboratory Information Management System for Thermophysical Property Prediction: Dennis Cristian, Emma Mattinson, William Mazerolle, Pierre Ekotto Mebande, Mya Beth Welton

David Macneil Prize ($500)

EmgLab: An AI-Assisted EMG Validation Platform for Collaborative Signal Analysis: Tina Kashwani, Ahmad Adnan Khan, Leora Prakash Mascarenhas, Pratik Mishra, Daniel Oluwatoyosi Olorunfemi


First place ($1,000)

Process Improvement for the New Brunswick Land Registration System: Owen Crawford, Eric Grenier, Jadon Williams

Second place ($750)

Geodetic Control Network Design for New Brunswick: Kallum Fletcher, Bergen Fraser, Ben LeBlanc

Third place ($500)

Machine Learning for Hyperspectral Classification for Vegetation Monitoring: Julien-Patrick Chavy-Waddy, Eric Douglass

ANBLS Awards ($500)

Process Improvement for the New Brunswick Land Registration System: Owen Crawford, Eric Grenier, Jadon Williams

Best poster

Geodetic Control Network Design for New Brunswick: Kallum Fletcher, Bergen Fraser, Ben LeBlanc


First place ($2,000)

Ozone Hockey: Michael Doiron, Nathaniel Dryden, Dominic Losier, Jake Profit

Second place ($1,000)

CADD-E: Jakob Ashfield, Noah Lydon, Brett Melanson, Patrick Sullivan

Third place ($500)

Hexoris Engineered for Extremes: Lance Keddy, Joshua Pothier, Isaac Richard, William Wilcox


Contact

Faculty of Engineering
Head Hall, H1045 
engineer@unb.ca
506 453-4570