2025 Capstone Winners
Innovation Boost Zone is thrilled to congratulate the winners of the 2025 Capstone Awards!
Sponsored by the Innovation Boost Zone and Master of Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MEIE) Program, the Capstone Awards celebrate bold, brilliant, and innovative final-year student projects. Meet the two incredible winning teams who pushed boundaries with their ideas for a better future through innovation and social impact.
Innovation Award
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Microelectronics Wastewater Reclamation: A Near Zero-Liquid Discharge Plant
Team: Fatima Aziz, Azerin Chowdhury, Sheema Khan, Maxwell Stee
This Chemical Engineering project presents a design of a wastewater purification process that is capable of reclaiming 50,000 tonnes per year of semiconductor wastewater (a sector of the microelectronics industry) to ultrapure water, while employing a near-zero liquid discharge model.
Social Impact Award
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Photo-Adaptive Blinds
Team: Isa Hajiyev, Herman Tran, Hazma Dirie, Vishal Krishnakumar
The Mechatronics Engineering team introduced the idea of Photo-Adaptive Blinds, a smart window covering that automatically adjusts based on the external brightness and temperature inside a room. Designed for places with variable seasonal changes like Toronto, it opens to let in natural warmth during cold weather and closes to block extra heat depending on the optimal control effort to reduce the current HVAC load.
Photos by AshvinK Photography.