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ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Globally, commercial aviation generates one billion tons of CO2 emissions annually. Fuel consumption is 30.1% of the airline budget. While current practices automate the complex handoffs fro…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The objective of this investigation is to create a functional prototype that activates when it rains and dispense dog treats. This will eventually help the dog owners protect their dogs whil…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The basis of this project is on a structural component known as a lap joint. Lap joints can be conjoined with bolts to connect two plates of metal together. Forces can be applied to the syst…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of this study was to determine which type of oil, synthetic or conventional, was most effective at maintaining its tribological performance when the oils experienced a simulated…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are becoming more widely used in ocean exploration and underwater infrastructures. SeaPerch is an underwater robotics program, similar to other r…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Axial compressors, the first stage of gas turbine engines, compress air by accelerating it through many stages of rotors and stators. Variable pitch stator vanes are a technology that preven…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
A layer of glaze is attached to the surface of ceramics. This study uses the glaze as a medium and integrates the machine learning theme of information engineering to predict the results of…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
With the goal of reducing our current demand, and reliance on the combustion of fossil fuels, there have been many studies on the development of ionic wind. Ionic wind creates thrust is the…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
As global warming presents a long-term challenge to the Earth and aerospace organizations continuously expand efforts to explore and colonize other planets, the need for an effective means t…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Over the past decade, deterring aerial threats such as enemy missile, rocket, and drone technology have become critical in the defense industry. New threats are resistant to the physics-base…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Modern rockets pump thousands of tons of soot into the atmosphere, and as human space launches are primed to double again by 2030, the development of more cost-effective and sustainable laun…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
The hazards of fires are some of the most dangerous matters emergency-dispatchers deal with. A myriad of fatal-risks are linked to fires, including the quick spread of inhalable toxic-fumes,…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development supports naval innovators to promote marine biodiversity, generate sustainable energy, and stabilize the climate crisis…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The goal of this project was to design and construct a Universal Screwdriver, a device that could unscrew any screw without the need for changing bits or other modifications. Using research,…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
By designing and building an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of autonomous dynamic soaring, I demonstrated that UAVs have the ability to harvest wind energy to soar nearly indefinitely…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Ammonia has been considered an encouraging substitute for fossil fuels in hopes of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Although ammonia is promising, it still has the issue of low reactivit…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
There is a variety of ventilation ducts in our lives, of which the fluid flow will produce noise that is unfavorable to people's physical and mental health. This project is aiming to develop…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Speed is a great factor to take into account at the time of an accident, since with only a 1% increase in speed the probability of fatal accidents increases by 4% and that of accidents with…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
The invention is an airless all-terrain wheel, which is designed to be compatible with off-road vehicles without any modifications. It consists of adjustable articulated arms with spring sus…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Wall-climbing robots play an important role building and terrain prospection. They can replace human in prospecting dangerous environments and help improve the efficiency of high-altitude ta…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The combination of hydrogen and ammonia balances the energy of hydrogen, increases the low flammability of ammonia, and is derived from renewable sources. However, ammonia yields NOx emissio…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Navigating through unstructured environments is a basic capability of autonomous robots, and thus is of fundamental interest in the study and development of autonomy. Long-range navigation o…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Recently, a new, practical and publicly accessible satellite standard called the SmallSat has amplified public involvement in orbital research. This allows for flexible and efficient deploym…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Nature has already perfected flight in the form of birds. One especially critical yet often overlooked aspect of avian flight is the highly nimble and drag-reducing aerodynamics of the avian…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Pipes that have tight structures can often be found in our daily lives but are difficult for human inspection and reparation. Therefore, the solution of using pipe-climbing robots is a more…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Solar panels are outside in any weather that may face them. The goal of my project is to keep solar panels clean in most conditions and to improve the energy output of the system. A summary…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The project itself is a wind tunnel which is a facility used for testing aerodynamic forces around a particular object. It follows the Bernoulli principle as the basic principle on which it…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This investigation focuses on how discoveries can be integrated into the advancement of technologies. Broken up into the main four areas of study within this project, it will illustrate how…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Electric motors are essential to modern-day life, safe operation of the electric motor is therefore vital to their operators. Studies on the fault of the electric motor, diagnosis accurately…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
More than 190 countries worldwide work together peacefully to gather crucial weather information. Every day, several thousand weather balloons are launched. They burst after a few hours and…