Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Eighty percent of people who are afflicted with Parkinson's experience tremors that affect their basic hand motions. These tremors limit daily activities. With this in mind the goal of this…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Finding correlation and causation between lifestyle habits and disease remains a major public health goal of our society. With the usage of genetic, lifestyle, and epidemiological data, we a…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Iron deficiency, a leading cause of anemia, is one of the globe’s top nutritional disorders according to the World Health Organization. Hemochromatosis, on the other hand, is a genetic disor…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Bicycle helmets are designed to balance both safety and comfort. To understand the design trade-offs, testing methodologies need adequate fidelity to measure the relevant variables. Because…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives Light pollution effects organisms within the ecosystem through the disruption of the circadian rhythm: the mental and physical biological responses that occur over the course of a…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
aWear is an innovative assistive aged care system designed to support a rapid response to accidents, particularly falls. This potentially life-saving solution has been a collaboration betwee…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), observed in infants born preterm with low birth weight, is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. ROP shows no external signs or symptoms. Currently, the g…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives Overall measurements of global warming average over areas that have both gotten hotter or colder, masking the severity of climate change. This project measures the extremes of cli…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Precision and personalized medicine are emerging approaches for cancer therapeutics. By characterizing patients’ risk for adverse developments such as tumor progression, specialized treatmen…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Catheters are the most used devices in treating hospitalized patients and in hemodialysis procedures. However, its use represents a potential risk for blood infections (possibly sepsis or se…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
Research Question: Can mankind not manipulate bionergy to create a carbon negative instead of carbon-neutral energy production system as a means of reversing the harmful effects of climate c…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
On many pattern recognition and inference tasks the human brain, which consumes just 20W and occupies only 1.5L, can outperform AI running on large von Neumann (vN) systems. Closure of this…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Current gas sensors possess many disadvantages, from low gas specificity to short life spans to the requiring of extensive maintenance. Carbon nanotubes' extremely specific structure inspire…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Fourth Award
Objectives The visually impaired often have trouble navigating their environments due to a lack of knowledge about the environment around them. My project hopes to solve this issue by creati…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives During the wildfires Fall 2018, I observed many students at my school attempting to protect their lungs from air pollution by covering their mouths with clothing. The purpose of t…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Abscission, the final stage of cytokinesis, is characterized by the separation of cells through the severing of the intercellular bridge at the midbody. Components of the Endosomal Sorting C…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNA molecules that are implicated in many gene expression pathways. Because they can degrade genes before translation, they have been extensively resea…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Chloramine in swimming pools is considered hazardous. It is generated by reaction of free chlorine with amine compounds including urine and perspiration. To eliminate chloramine, excessive a…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
The project entitled classroom 2.0, seeks a practical solution to the economic deficiencies that prevent the proper implementation of classrooms with the latest technological resources. Our…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives Social Media is replete with toxic comments. AI algorithms built to identify toxicity often exhibit bias as they associate identity terms with toxicity, lacking an understanding o…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Stuttering, a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of syllables, affects tens of millions of people. Stuttering c…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health challenge which affects about two million people in the U.S. annually. The search for new antibacterial agents is focusing on small drug mole…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Currently, new alternatives for greenhouse gases are of great interest, and hydrogen is a major player in the race for a new source of fuel. Hydrogen can be produced through a photocatalytic…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
More and more applications in industry and everyday life can be taken over by automated mobile platforms. One of the core attributes of a mobile robot is its drive, as this is the key to its…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Objectives The project focuses on avoiding fouling, the clogging of salt or left-over particles within a desalination device, by utilizing thermal radiation instead of heat conduction which…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Autism is a spectrum disorder that affects regions of the brain which control a person’s communication and social interaction. It is a challenge for autistic children to communicate given th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The spread of fake news on the internet is presenting increasing threats to national security, with the potential to incite public unrest and violence. Given Singapore’s multiracial society,…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
DNA-binding proteins play an especially important role in regulating gene expression. These proteins called transcription factors (TFs) recognize and bind to DNA-sequences called DNA motifs,…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Currently with the average cost of a prosthetic continually rising, and the usability of cheaper prosthetics negatively affecting the user, a prosthetic with long-term functionality and comp…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
The aviation industry accounts for 11% of all transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, producing 158 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. While a sma…