Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The stock market is a very complex system in which many people gain and lose money. Using artificial intelligence, this experiment is going to attempt to use human sentiment to develop a mod…
Biomedical Engineering
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death for toddlers and infants with 15,000 annual deaths, occurs for unknown reasons while sleeping, however is detectable through b…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Audio streaming has become more prevalent in daily life through music, phone calls, and online meetings, among other applications. However, effectively streaming high-quality audio poses a c…
Plant Sciences
The NMMI stem team engaged in a project that utilized and incorporated naturally occurring materials to produce a viable alcohol-free and eco-friendly hand sanitizer that could rival competi…
Systems Software
The world faces a multitude of global issues, and large donations are integral to solving these problems. However, few prominent issues currently exist in philanthropy. First, there is a lac…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
A reputable study (Heijnsdijk et al., 2002) found that only 62% of grasping actions using laparoscopic graspers were a success. One reason for this low success rate could be the way the grip…
Mathematics
In my research, I redefined the Hardy- Ramanujan Formula that was created in 1917. This formula is used to depict the numbers of ways any integer can be split up, known as integer partitions…
Environmental Engineering
The excessive production of cow manure in New Mexico is an environmental concern. Simultaneously, cement, the main ingredient in concrete, leads the world as one of the biggest producers of…
Microbiology
This research stems from the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, lack of a swift and efficient drug delivery system, and the necessity of precision medicine in cancer and viral treatmen…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Transistors themselves have not fundamentally changed in decades, with all advances in the field focused on merely decreasing the size of transistors. This is a problem as soon it will be im…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar tracking is a technique used to increase the energy efficiency of a solar panel by orienting solar panels to face the sun as it travels across the sky. Challenges faced by solar tracki…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Estimating the quickest path from A to B is the aim of mapping software such as Google Maps which calculate route times using parameters such as road size, real-time traffic density and hist…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affecting >50 million individuals worldwide, is characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive function for which no effective therapies currently exist. To ident…
Materials Science
The leather industry is worth hundreds of billions of pounds a year, and it is expected to grow. Alternately vegan leathers are made from plant based materials. This project is about making…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Car rollovers are common accidents on the road, resulting in 39,000 fatalities and numerous injuries every year. This research project proposes an original method of dynamically shifting the…
Systems Software
As technology increasingly impacts daily life, technological interaction is critical to the future of equity and health. In an effort to advance this interaction, the researcher sought to de…
Embedded Systems
Taking into account the recent spreads of COVID-19 and the visible strain on the health infrastructure of many countries, the project was designed to see whether there could be some way of r…
Animal Sciences
Soft egg shells in the egg production business result in a loss of profit. A soft egg is when the shell does not form into a hard layer, but a flimsy, easily-punctured covering. If vitamin D…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Inspired by the paralympic running blade and drawing on the biomimicry of the tail of the Australian kangaroo, the ‘Walking Tall’ poles are a revolutionary new aid designed to slow down the…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There are numerous natural ways to generate electricity, such as water, wind, atomic power, sun, etc. The problem is that those sources are not stable, some require special isolated conditio…
Environmental Engineering
95% of the giant kelp forests along California coastlines have been devoured by the overpopulated purple urchins, and the current solution of relying on divers to reduce urchin numbers is la…
Translational Medical Science
By March 4th 2022, the WHO confirmed about 440 million cases and approximately 6 million deaths due to COVID-19. Recently, many studies relied on only expensive swab testing, which cannot pr…
Environmental Engineering
This study was done to determine if mealworm gut bacteria could again be quantified, isolated using differential media, identified, and then further used to biodegrade polystyrene (PS). The…
Systems Software
WatchfuLock is a near-impenetrable identity verification and security system that uses facial recognition and eye tracking to reliably determine authorized users from potential intruders. Th…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Drone development has been on the rise since the turn of the century and has expanded greatly from government use. Most high quality drones tend to be expensive and have a limited feature se…
Systems Software
Watersheds are regions where water flows into a common outlet, commonly considered with respect to terrain, climate, vegetation, fauna, and human constructions. Watersheds are particularly i…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Nowadays programming has become more than a profession. It is a skill similar to math and writing. So many schools teach their students computer science. Even in elementary schools, teachers…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an incurable disease that hinders the ability of kidneys to filter the blood effectively and in most cases result in renal failure that force patients to depe…
Materials Science
Leather is used almost everyday. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't own a leather product. This project was designed to test what product would work best for protecting le…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Many weightlifters acquire unnecessary back injuries from manually picking up, moving and loading weight plates onto a barbell. To avoid these injuries, the Weight Plate Loader, a full-sized…