Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Since the earliest alchemists claimed to turn lead into gold, there have been inventors that have discovered free energy or a system to harvest energy for seemingly nothing. The “Blackbird”…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We built a machine, a semi-automatic filament extruder used as a resource for 3D printing in the FDM technology - so popular and widely available today for almost every production method. We…
Environmental Engineering
This project analyzes the different effects nature has on a slopes stability. It focuses on the effects of rain, water, vegetation, and suction stress. The purpose of the experiment is to de…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mental health is a very prevalent issue in the world today. There are many studies on how physical and mental health affect each other. This study's goal was to discover the relationship bet…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As a result of Cu-based agrochemicals and the progression of industrialization, the toxic ion Cu2+'s concentration is predicted to increase by more than 50% by the end of this century (Rehme…
Mathematics
Together, the Pascal triangle and the Newton binomial, can predict sequences of numbers. Procedures will be performed with binomial , were the value of one of the variables will remain const…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
The quality and taste of a watermelon mainly depend on its ripeness degree. As the watermelon ripens, the redness of its inner flesh increases, while the thickness of the outer rind shrinks.…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
While humans can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste to help us understand the world around us, robots must use different sensors to interpret their environment and navigate and avoid obstacl…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The design and optimization of assembly occupancies are most usually restricted by fire, building, and life safety codes. This can prevent even the greatest designs from ever being created.…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
First Award
With the goal of achieving greater environmental and economic sustainability, the automotive industry has begun transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs). However, the challenge is that the p…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) impacts the retina through an accumulation of unresolved oxidative stress. Diabetic Nephropathy and AMD have a strong association, with an odds ratio o…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current study aims to test if thiamine is an effective preventative measure for traumatic-brain-injury-induced locomotive ability loss. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an epidemic that i…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a neurological disorder, where seizures are triggered by aberrant flashes or specific spatial configurations of light. After COVID-19, billions of new intern…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many people in today’s society refuse to drink tap water due to the components in it. In order to battle this, water filters are used to clean the water. The commercial filters claim their p…
Translational Medical Science
Influenza virus causes an estimated 9.0-35.6 million severe illnesses and 850,000 deaths worldwide annually. Aided by its error-prone, open-ended RNA genome, the virus mutates rampantly to e…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
First Award
The most prevalent vision impairment in young children worldwide, cortical visual impairment (CVI) is caused by damage to the visual cortex or optic nerve. State-of-the-art therapy technique…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of this project was to assist food deserts through growing healthy foods easily and affordably with a self-sufficient greenhouse. The solution to this problem had three main part…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Nutrient pollution from farm fields and agricultural operations has contributed to harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Iowa’s lakes. HABs have been on the rise recently and can produce toxins tha…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The purpose of this project was to determine which aerodynamic element/s on an F1 car is/are the most important to maximize to achieve the fastest lap possible around the Bahrain Internation…
Chemistry
The Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) phenomenon has been widely used for biological applications. Herein, FRET mechanism is used for the first time to develop a combination therapy d…
Chemistry
"From leavened products to proteins through flours" is the title of a research that I lead in the institute IIS Galileo Galilei in Jesi, Italy. I decided to do this research, to deepen the s…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Aerospace is an increasingly important industry. Advances in technology, along with new prospects to explore space, expand scientific knowledge, find new resources, and boost the economy, ha…
Mathematics
Second Award
The non-trivial zeros of L-functions encode important information about primes, which are essential to both number theory and modern cryptography. The zeros near the central point, s = 1/2,…
Mathematics
Torus knots are knots that lie on the surface of a torus. Torus knots have a wide variety of applications in quantum mechanics, molecular chemistry, and topology. In this paper, a comprehens…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
CAR T-cell immunotherapy has proven to be effective in treating relapsed, refractory B-cell malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Nevertheless, limitations have emerged from IL…
Microbiology
Sensory input and subsequent motor reactions are an important part of the behavioral modulation process. Although the exact relationship between these two factors is not entirely known, it c…
Biomedical Engineering
Endovascular occlusive diseases are among the leading causes of death around the world. Specifically, thrombosis is responsible for 1 in 4 people dying worldwide. Atherosclerosis is the caus…
Environmental Engineering
With no biodegradable alternative to plastic cutlery on the market today, we were determined to find a valid, eco-friendly solution with rapid, non-toxic biodegradation in multiple environme…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the US, but it is curable and preventable if diagnosed early. Following the recent emphasis on the human microbiome's imp…
Systems Software
The prospect of learning through textbooks, worksheets, tests, and flashcards, often dissuades those striving for knowledge and provides no incentive other than receiving a desirable grade.…