Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: This study addresses road accidents caused by driver fatigue and drowsiness. With a slight level of fatigue and a desire to sleep, a person's reaction drops by almost 16%, causing t…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Cardiovascular surgery is a complex and high-risk procedure that requires precise navigation to ensure the success of the operation. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the d…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The widespread use of plastics has raised concerns about their persistence in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Tiny plastic particles, microplastics, and nanoplastics which are generate…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Sources of renewable energy and clean water are threatened due to rising temperatures, which can trigger eutrophication. Biophotovoltaic fuel cells using microalgae and integrated wastewater…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project assessed whether longleaf pine tree (Pinus palustris) ring widths varied with groundwater depth. If tree ring growth is related to groundwater depth, then pine trees in deeper g…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics (MPs) are everywhere in our daily lives, air, water, and the food chain. Research conducted around the world has confirmed the presence of MPs in water, salt, and other food th…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Muscular Atrophy severely restricts an individual’s ability to conduct Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), with 70% of Muscular Dystrophy patients requiring the aid of a caretaker or an ortho…
Environmental Engineering
Automated Recyclable Management (ARM) is a synthesis object detection network and affordable hardware prototype designed to automate the process of recyclable waste classification. By employ…
Systems Software
The American Society of Clinical Oncology estimates a national shortage of over two-thousand hematologists and oncologists by 2025, yet leukemia is consistently among the ten most prevalent…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 1950 Alan Turing designed a test with the goal of finding an answer to the question "Can Machines Think?" In Turing test there is a human and a machine that is judged by another human acc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Through our design, we have employed two machine learning models. First, a visual transcript of hand signs, and other physical features must be established, and accurately return a string of…
Chemistry
The aromatic amino acid Tyrosine was synthesized using three types of clays, water, heat, and a few common compounds. However, initial efforts to identify Tyrosine were stymied by the sole u…
Embedded Systems
Runoff of surplus nutrients causes algae blooms which endanger marine wildlife. This study aspired to design and construct an accessible device which provides accurate quantitative, in-situ,…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
As one of the traditional cultures in China, Chinese calligraphy has transcended the boundaries of language and become a form of art exhibited in homes and museums. For beginners, mastery of…
Microbiology
Third Award
A big challenge of long term space travel and habitation is bacteria proliferation in the spacecraft and space station. Bacteria form threatening biofilms that jeopardize equipment and the h…
Embedded Systems
Haptic technology, which delivers a sense of touch, has gained significant popularity in the entertainment industries for providing immersive virtual experiences. However, its potential as a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Our aim is to help children with sensory processing disorder which is a neurological disorder that disrupts how the brain responds to external stimuli to achieve the desirable improvements i…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Histone binding proteins regulate histone metabolism and play important roles in multiple biological processes that are linked to human diseases. Here we developed an in-silico approach to s…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Text-generation AI services are unaffordable for most people at $10 to $20 a month. I developed and published an open-source efficient text-generation algorithm called grouped sampling to en…
Environmental Engineering
Due to humans' heavy, global dependence on petroleum as an energy source and material, oil extraction and processing efforts happen in many environments and involve mass transportation acros…
Embedded Systems
To meet the growing demand for food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, many countries are investing in new technologies and digitization of agricultural services. Precision a…
Biomedical Engineering
The project focuses on the development of a solar powered, portable respirator system that utilizes an Ambu bag and incorporates an LCD user interface to allow for the setting of specific pa…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting 50 million people around the world, characterized by brain atrophy, memory loss, and cognitive decline. While much has been…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Swimming in natural water sources such as lakes, rivers, and beaches can expose individuals to harmful organisms and toxins, leading to sickness. The contamination of these water sources can…
Chemistry
The rapid discovery of exoplanets in recent years has presented a complex challenge in determining their habitability. Remote detection and limited spatial and spectral information, as well…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a common inherited retinal degeneration disease that is caused by the deterioration of rod photoreceptors, a type of retinal cell, leading to vision loss. One me…
Chemistry
Plastics pose a major environmental problem to the planet as they take around 700 years to degrade completely. Consequently, the demand for alternate and environment-friendly materials is ri…
Physics and Astronomy
Nanoparticles have been developed for various biomedical applications. Magnetic nanoparticles have earned significant interest in research in recent years due to their magnetic properties, w…
Translational Medical Science
COVID-19 and its several strains caused millions of infections and deaths worldwide, making it vital to understand how the virus interacts with human cells. Determining binding site location…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The diving behavior of the Macaca mulatta is a rare phenomenon that only a few scientific researchers have studied on. Previous studies have only regarded the diving behavior of the Macaca m…