• Murphy Society Awards Project Voting

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  • Student Projects

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    • 3D Printing Challenge

      The 3D Printing Challenge enables students to explore the growing discipline of 3D printed applications in civil engineering. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Jocelyn Luevanos

      Amount Requested: $4,500

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    • Bladesmithing Club's On-Campus Forge

      The Bladesmithing Club is asking for a one-time investment to build a permanent on-campus forging setup that serves the whole Northwestern engineering and design community. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Aram Park

      Amount Requested: $5,000 

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    • Career Development Workshop and Speaker Series

      The Career Development Workshop and Speaker Series aims to give undergraduate women in engineering the practical skills and confidence to land competitive internships and full-time jobs. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Lara Mocan

      Amount Requested: $3,000 

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    • Competition for Undergraduate Regenerative Engineering (CURE)

      Northwestern’s Competition for Undergraduate Regenerative Engineering (CURE) is a student-run organization that provides the opportunity for undergraduate students to engage in cutting-edge research in the field of regenerative biomedical engineering. Read project proposal >

      Project Managers: Riley Thornburgh, Andrew Kang

      Amount Requested: $4,954

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    • Concrete Canoe 2026-2027

      The Concrete Canoe team builds a canoe out of concrete using a student-built form, concrete mix, and a unique design each year. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Sofia Bartos

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Construction Institute

      The objective of Construction Institute (CI) is to enable students to solve real-world construction engineering problems. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Karina Paxton Filoteo

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Custom Flexible Solar Panel Manufacturing

      This project will enable Northwestern University Solar Car (NUsolar) students to design and manufacture high-efficiency, flexible solar panels tailored to the unique shape of our solar vehicle. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Bill Chen

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • EEG-Controlled Wheelchair

      Medical Makers is Northwestern’s largest student group that focuses on the research, design, and engineering of novel medical devices. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Nathaniel Rogers

      Amount Requested: $4,200

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    • Fueling Professional Growth: Northwestern National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at the Fall Regional Conference (FRC) 2026

      Our project seeks to fund travel and registration for members of the Northwestern University chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) to attend the upcoming Fall Regional Conference (FRC). Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Haliya Asimiyu

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • High School Initiative Program (HSIP)

      The High School Initiative Program (HSIP) is an event hosted by SHPE Northwestern in collaboration with high schools from the greater Chicago area. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Camila Cristine Sandino

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • IEEE Technical Program

      The objective of the IEEE technical program is to teach students, create a community, advance careers, and widen perspectives. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Vicheda Narith

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Northwestern Baja SAE 2026-2027 Car

      Northwestern Baja is a student-run team that designs, builds, and races off-road cars every year. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Katie Partee

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Northwestern Formula Racing - Moving to Four Hub Motors

      Northwestern Formula Racing (NFR) is a student-led engineering team that designs, builds, and races a fully electric formula-style vehicle for the international Formula SAE Electric competition. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Rahwa Tesfay

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Northwestern Silicon Initiative Development

      NUSilicon is Northwestern University's first student-led semiconductor design and fabrication organization. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Muhammad Tahir

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • NUSTARS Rocket Team (2026-2027)

      Now that NUSTARS has completed its first year in IREC with a simpler design, the team wants to expand our engineering to take advantage of the full design capabilities enabled by the competition. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Max Hughes

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Ride Engineering Competition

      TPED would like to compete in the Ride Engineering Competition, a prestigious nationwide competition between universities that involves designing and building a working model of a theme park ride that fits the competition’s specifications, theme, and parameters. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Kayla Youhanaie

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Steel Bridge Team

      The Steel Bridge Team provides hands-on design, calculation, and building experience. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Jocelyn Luevanos

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Surveying Team Field Equipment

      The Northwestern Surveying team provides valuable fieldwork and design experience for future engineers, including a robust education in land surveying, site development, and industry standards for AutoCAD software use. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Jocelyn Luevanos

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Sustainable Solutions

      Sustainable Solutions provides a real-world building project for students to apply innovative sustainable designs and mechanisms to solve. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Karina Paxton Filoteo

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Uganda Primary School Reconstruction Project

      The Northwestern chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-NU) proposes the rebuilding of the Ebenezer Sosio Nursery and Primary School in Kapchorwa, Uganda. Read project proposal >

      Project Manager: Connor Argenzio

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Faculty Projects

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    • Building an AI-Powered Urban Mobility Analytics Platform: A Hands-On Undergraduate Research Experience in Chicago

      Urban mobility is being transformed by artificial intelligence and large-scale data — yet undergraduate engineers rarely get hands-on experience with these tools at real-world scale. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Ying Chen, CEE

      Amount Requested: $24,000

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    • Community-Centered AI: A Responsible Course Assistant Pilot on Ed Discussion

      In partnership with Ed Discussion, a modern Q&A platform already used in many engineering courses across the country, this project aims at piloting a controlled, instructor-configured AI Assistant embedded directly in the course community. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Lakshmy Mohandas, UEO/Segal Yiji Zhang, CS

      Amount Requested: $5,070

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    • Creating a Modern Chemical Engineering Process Controls Laboratory

      Our project is to develop a modern chemical engineering process controls laboratory that would prepare our students for the next generation of chemical engineering practice. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Ashty Karim, ChBE

      Amount Requested: $80,000

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    • Embedded Foundation and Language Model Labs for Hands-On Edge AI Education

      This project will create a new set of weekly hands-on laboratory modules for Northwestern's CE 395: Embedded Artificial Intelligence course. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Stephen Xia, ECE

      Amount Requested: $22,000

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    • Human-AI Community Programs for Undergraduates in Design, Technology, and Research (DTR)

      Design, Technology, and Research (DTR) is a Computer Science and Segal Design initiative that empowers undergraduates to drive cutting-edge research that shapes new experiences with people and technology. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Haoqi Zhang, CS

      Amount Requested: $16,000

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    • Human Health Engineering (HHE) at McCormick

      This project will assess the need and potential demand for an undergraduate engineering program at the McCormick School of Engineering, exploring options such as a certificate, minor, or major. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Sanjay Mehrotra, IEMS

      Amount Requested: $40,000

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    • Improving the Student Advising Experience with an AI Advising Agent

      This project serves as a pilot for a new advising tool in Biomedical Engineering. If successful, it can be adapted to other McCormick departments, improving advising efficiency while enabling faculty to focus on higher-value mentoring. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Chamille Lescott, BME

      Amount Requested: $1,525

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    • Integrating Hardware into GEN_ENG 151

      This project aims to move the result of students' programming efforts off of their computers to real hardware capable of sensing and changing in the real world. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Connor Bain, CS

      Amount Requested: $5,000

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    • Modernizing Computer System Security Education for the LLM Era

      Since 2005, I have offered Northwestern's major system-security courses, including the CS354 Computer System Security, in which students learn security from a hacker's perspective and complete more than a dozen challenging hands-on tasks using cutting-edge tools and techniques. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Yan Chen, CS

      Amount Requested: $24,920

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    • Modernizing Statistics Education and Experience in Industrial Engineering

      This project proposes a course redesign from a traditional introductory statistics course into a modern, project-based experience focused on experimentation, uncertainty quantification, and statistical decision-making. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Moses Chan, IEMS

      Amount Requested: $10,000

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    • Scaling MAT_SCI 331's 3D Printing Resin Design Laboratories with Dynamic Covalent Chemistries and Computational Methods

      This proposal seeks FY27 Murphy Society funding to expand the laboratory experience through three targeted enhancements. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Ryan Truby, MSE/ME, Jonathan Emery, MSE, John Torkelson, ChBE/MSE, James Rondinelli, MSE, Kenneth Shull, MSE, Rajan Kumar, MSE

      Amount Requested: $22,104

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    • Scaling the Programmable Radio Teaching Laboratory for Growing Undergraduate Demand in Communications

      This proposal requests Murphy Society support to purchase ten additional NI USRP-2900 Software-Defined Radios, which are compatible with the current laboratory. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Igor Kadota, ECE

      Amount Requested: $23,084

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    • Space Engineering Program

      The Northwestern Space Engineering Initiative has established a multidisciplinary educational ecosystem to prepare students to address the technological, scientific, and societal challenges associated with humanity's expanding presence in space. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: David Zaretsky, ECE

      Amount Requested: $50,000

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    • Tablets for Socratic Test Expansion

      The modern grading system is fatally flawed, with the main reason being a lack of proper assessment tools. This is true now more than ever before. Read project proposal >

      Faculty: Ilya Mikhelson, ECE

      Amount Requested: $4,450

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