Looking to be inspired? Capstone Expo 2025 is an opportunity to experience the groundbreaking projects of McMaster Engineering students on the brink of their professional journeys. These talented teams have tackled real-world challenges and seized opportunities for creative interventions, presenting innovative solutions that could shape the future.
From a ToastBot that uses advanced control algorithms to achieve the perfect toast every time, to a carpool platform that connects riders, and a cost-effective solution for cell culturing, Capstone Expo 2025 will showcase a diverse array of over 250 innovative projects.
The public is invited to attend on April 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the David Braley Athletic Centre on campus. The event is free and no registration is required.
“Students’ capstone projects showcase innovation in action and have often resulted in entrepreneurial endeavours,” says Sarah Dickson-Anderson, Associate Dean, Undergraduate in the Faculty of Engineering. “In addition to giving our students the opportunity to showcase the technical, transferrable, and professional skills they’ve developed during their time as Mac Eng students, it’s also a great platform for spotlighting emerging talent for industry leaders.”
The wide range of projects feature creative solutions and methods to address pressing local, national and international issues. Each team consults with an academic advisor, while some also work with industry advisors from companies and organizations like MDA Space, Sartorius, Hatch Ltd., Natural Resources Canada and Stelco.
Below is a sneak peek at some of the inspiring projects that will appear at this year’s event. View all 250+ projects that will be on display.
Team #9: dice_devs
Design and play your own version of modernized Yahtzee with additional features and twists.
Team members: John Popovici, Nigel Moses, Naishan Guo, Isaac Giles, Hemraj Bhatt
Capstone advisor: Paul Rapoport
Team #18: Chemware Engineering
Our project is a user interface and model version management tool for modeling and simulating industrial plants. The user interface for a model is represented by a network of nodes and edges that the user can freely modify and edit.
Team members: Madhuran Sivapragasam, Kishor Pandya, Dhrumil Pandya, Rasik Pkharel, Madhu Sivapragasam
Capstone advisor: Spencer Smith
Industry advisor: Vladimir Mahalec
Team #20: Shuttle Squad
MacTransit is a system that helps McMaster commuters track shuttle bus locations, check occupancy levels, and view real-time ETAs, providing a more reliable and transparent shuttle bus service on campus.
Team members: Aysu Ozdal, Andrew Thompson, Arvind Shastri, Stanley Nguyen, George Yazji
Capstone advisor: Vincent Maccio
Team #14: P.C.D.
For future mobile robots with arms to be able to help people at home (or elsewhere), they need to be aware of the spaces occupied by the people around them. Sensors, such as Microsoft’s Kinect, can produce color 3D “point clouds” of the scene in front of the robot, and skeleton tracking software based on these point clouds has been developed for gaming. However, the results provided by skeleton tracking software are inadequate since they only produce stick figures and do not provide the reliability required for the safe interactions of people and robots. The software challenge this project is to develop a system that can reliably detect and track humans in a 3D point cloud space, even when partially obscured, to enable safe human-robot interactions in real-time scenarios.
Team members: Tarnveer Takhtar, Harman Bassi, Kyen So, Matthew Bradbury
Capstone advisor: Gary Bone
Team #9: Mini-MBR Team 9
Under a partnership with Fibracast Ltd., the goal of this project is to design a functional, transportable, small-scale MBR that will be used to treat wastewater on-site from existing sources. Using Fibracast’s own ultrafiltration membrane, FibrePlateTM, and all necessary piping, alarms, and controls, the designed small-scale system will treat post-bioreactor flow to produce clean filtrate.
Team members: Sheel Ayachi, Khushali Shah, Max Rand, Justin Tran, Nicole Liut
Capstone advisor: Kim Jones
Industry partner: Fibracast
Team #13: HydroCarbon Solutions
Optimization of the global location of a BMED plant based on a techno-economic analysis and the consideration of relevant factors, such as the cost of utilities, labour, and land.
Team members: Eileen Cornejo, Ellie Teeple, Ada Chen, Prachi Kapur, Tiffany Tjong
Capstone advisor: Charles De Lannoy
Team #11: Sarmo
Decarbonizing the steel industry is crucial in addressing climate change. Our team designed an electrochemical steel production process inspired by Electra technologies, offering a lower-energy, low-emission alternative to traditional methods, shaping the future of sustainable steel manufacturing.
Team members: Olivia Pilla, Sarah Woods, Rita Filipe, Michael Burton, Ali Syed
Capstone advisor: Drew Higgins
Industry partner: John D’Alessio
Team #14: Earthstone Solutions
Earthstone Solutions Limited has engaged the City of Hamilton in a private-public partnership to design Confederation Beach Stage, a mid-size outdoor entertainment venue with a capacity of 8,000 patrons. This project will revolutionize Confederation Beach Park by redeveloping the aging infrastructure that is currently Wild Waterworks, providing a new space for social connectivity and appreciation of the arts in Hamilton.
Team members: Megan Coulson, Keyra Kam, Alyssa De Bono, Julianna De Luca, Nikola Gligic, Paris Liu
Capstone advisor: Peijun Guo
Industry partners: Earthstone Solutions
Team #16: The Boa Constructors
This project details a multi-use building in Peterborough, serving as a GO train station and residential apartment, as well as a commercial centre. This building will be seven stories high with two levels of underground parking and will be located on Simcoe Street with a railway that will follow Bethune Street. This project will reduce travel time for commuters, provide affordable housing options, and revitalize downtown Peterborough.
Team members: Samantha Bozzer, Emilia Ashton, Monica Chhin, Hasan Alahmad, Jee Hoon An, Sherin Kottarathil Jerry
Capstone advisors: Yiping Guo, Peijun Guo, Zoe Li
Industry partners: The Boa Constructors
Team #9: Westview Consulting
West Harbour Heights is an eight-storey, two-tower mixed-use and mixed-income development with a podium in Hamilton’s Central Neighbourhood, featuring 96 one- to three-bedroom condominium units, a large main floor for commercial use, and modern amenities such as a walkable green podium roof. The project addresses Ontario’s housing supply crisis, transit accessibility, and climate concerns by providing affordable housing, sustainable features like BIPV and a green roof, and convenient access to the West Harbour GO Rail transit hub, while also incorporating a local park and a small public amphitheatre as community spaces.
Team members: Kate Bain, Manon Gourieroux, Annabelle Heys, Joseph D’Angelo, Maryam Butrus, Mark Benn
Capstone advisor: Dr. Peijun Guo
Industry partners: Westview Consulting
Team #6: RAYZEC
This project sets out to design a multi-use multistorey building at McMaster University Parking Lot K, that is to serve as both a multistorey parking facility to meet the university ever growing parking demand and an indoor tennis compound that houses both varsity and recreational tennis players and spectators.
Team members: Edward Zan, Nicholas Rendulic, Mehrad Ebrahimi, Hamza Anis, Ulas Celik, Wei Ye Han
Capstone advisors: Yiping Guo, Peijun Guo, Zoe Li
Team #4: NexGen Development
Team #7: RF Doom
VoidLink is an affordable and compact wireless communication device. VoidLink forms a decentralized network to relay relative position and critical information over long ranges with minimal power.
Team members: Boran Seckin, Lukas Koutza-Janisch, Stefan Praniauskas, Milena Thibault
Capstone advisor: Chih-Hung Chen
Team #2: Super! Electric!
To pursue energy efficiency and lowering standard requirements for the power supply unit, we will need a super capacitor module, to provide the energy for occasional power spikes. The project seek to design a management module that allows high energy efficiency, while maintaining affordable cost and small size.
Team members: Shan Qing Pan, Jiahui Yu, Wenrui He, Feichen Zhou
Capstone advisor: Ameer Abdelhadi
Team #5: S05
A precision 3-axis automated soldering system with AI-driven quality control to enhance efficiency and reliability in PCB assembly.
Team members: Mayar Aljayoush, Arji Thaiyib, AHmad Choudhry, Abdullah Hafeez, Arjun Bhatia
Capstone advisor: Shahram Shirani
Team #20: TagSense
A reusable self releasing clothing tag and an automated checkout system that uses RFID technology for a quick and seamless shopping experience.
Team members: Justin Covach, Ben Miles, Danielle Fong, Isaac Kong, Brian Ho
Capstone advisor: Ameer Abdelhadi
Team #4: Equanimiti
A flexible mental health app that uses retrieval-augmented generation to create personalized exercises for managing anxiety and depression, tailored based on users’ previous responses. It also offers a speech recognition feature, allowing users to complete exercises by speaking instead of typing.
Team members: Robert Benitez-Ek, Gurleen Dhillon, Ajneet Banwait, Nicholas Kuk, Antheus Aldridge
Capstone advisor: Chih-Hung Chen
Team #12: CP Ball
Our capstone project focuses on developing an AI-powered basketball training assistant that combines machine learning and computer vision to provide players with real-time feedback, performance tracking, and personalized training recommendations.
Team members: Jibin Mathew, Ronit Ahuja, Anthona Acosta, Biswajit Saha
Capstone advisor: Chih-Hung Chen
Team #6: Sldr ² ✧˖°
Our project aims to design a wearable vest embedded with sensors to assist individuals with vision-loss or spatial awareness issues to safely and confidently navigate through various environments without the need for other safety equipment. The vest will provide real-time feedback to the wearer about their surroundings by using vibrations to indicate any obstructions in their way to reduce the risk of collisions.
Team members: Dania Sherif, Rayan Mokdad, Ryan Simoes, Luca Mastroiacovo, Sana Khan
Capstone advisor: Ameer Abdelhadi
Team #7: MSE07
The project aims to build a furnace that melts slag into a continuous molten stream, meeting the goal of melting 3kg of slag in 5 minutes, while minimizing environmental impact and being scalable for commercial use.
Team members: Natasha Raghuwanshi, Sheetal Gill, Trevor Laupland, Kiera Foster
Capstone advisor: Christopher DiGiovanni
Industry advisor: Kelly Lau
Team #1: MYCLE Consulting
Utilizing advanced characterizing techniques (i.e. Scanning Electron Microscopy), our team has identified notable microstructure features in x40 and x70 steel alloys. Utilizing modelling, we are predicting the amount of hydrogen that passes through the steel alloys. Utilizing this technique , we are creating a low cost and accurate method of evaluating steel alloys for hydrogen transpiration across Canada.
Team members: Mymoon Bhuiyan, Haobo Yang, Chentao Wenren, Yicheng Wang
Capstone advisor: Nabeel Bassim, Irina Pushkerva
Industry advisor: Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Team #7: MA03
We have designed, fabricated, and tested a control system for a Minimum Quantity Lubrication system that uses cutting force readings from a dynamometer to actuate lubricant spray. This functionality reduces the consumption of lubricant when machining difficult-to-cut materials and will be used as a research tool with the goal of achieving similar, if not better machining performance than traditional flood cutting.
Team members: Jason Lowrie, Hana Amari, Eleanor Gough, Luc Nusselder
Team members: Jason Lowrie, Hana Amari, Eleanor Gough, Luc Nusselder
Capstone advisor: Maryam Aramesh
Team #33: CM03
The design and build of a planar jet facility for the testing of stratified flow behaviours through laser induced fluorescence techniques.
Team members: Kate Brophy, Cora Vince, Áine Willis, Finn Turner
Capstone advisor: Christopher Morton
Learn more about this year’s Capstone Showcase projects and register to attend Capstone now.
