Chemistry
Synthetic textile dyes have been one of the largest contributors to global pollution, resulting in wastewater with toxic chemicals and lower levels of dissolved oxygen in bodies of water nea…
Biomedical Engineering
Pluronic F-127 (PF-127) is a thermoreversible hydrogel and a promising candidate for drug delivery. It has a unique property that allows it to turn from liquid to gel as the temperature incr…
Biomedical Engineering
Heat exhaustion is the leading cause of death in student- athletes. This project proposes the idea of creating a system to remotely monitor individual student-athletes' temperature to preven…
Mathematics
Tetration is a fundamental mathematical operation that follows in the sequence of addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. x^^n is defined as x to the power of itself, n times. Naturall…
Translational Medical Science
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome alters development that translates to life-long health problems. Probiotic treatment has known to have health benefits that may alleviate these problems. The purpose o…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
First Award
Obesity is the enlargement of adipose tissue caused by consuming more calories than used by the body. Excessive fat accumulation in the adipose tissue forms adipocyte hypertrophy, which prom…
Translational Medical Science
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most deadly and most common brain cancer. Patients often lack the financial means for professional consultations, limiting their access to end-of-life care. 3 machi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
With the huge technology development, we haven’t seen specific help for people suffering with essential tumors and paralyzed people. But our assembler is here to help those people . It will…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a well-documented sex bias, in which males are diagnosed approximately four times more frequently than females. Although recent human studies have identifi…
Systems Software
As a result of searching for traffic accident data in Korea, it was found that the death rate for accidents occurring in the early morning hours was high. In cities, the accident rate was hi…
Animal Sciences
Small yet dangerous, mosquitoes transmit diseases that kill over 700,000 people annually. Previously, the student researcher found the In2Care© trap, which uses auto-dissemination (mosquitoe…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. While BC has favorable survival rates for localized cases, 26% of BC survivors will experience an incurable can…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project is to provide an automated system that can perform the simple, easy and cost-effective cleaning of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) heat exchanger…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project aims is to build a small automated and self-sufficient greenhouse as well as to compare the growth of vegetables inside the greenhouse and in a traditional orchard. Aspects such…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this engineering design project is to create a system that mimics what an automatic part sorting system does. This is useful as it allows for parts to be sorted without the us…
Biomedical Engineering
If a patient has fever, you would have to stick a thermometer in their mouth. This method is really bad especially for infants, imagine waking up in the middle of the every 30 minutes to che…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: Accurate white blood cell classification and count in the peripheral blood is fundamental in diagnosing major diseases. It could be performed by an automated analyzer with limite…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability and aphasia is the most common symptom of stroke. Currently, aphasia assessment is done using the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), which consi…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are the fundamental tool to diagnose the leading cause of death globally–cardiovascular disease. Cardiac signals inputted into computerized algorithms can exploit E…
Environmental Engineering
This project is inspired by a comparison picture of two beach pictures. After viewing the two beach pictures, it is showed that the amount trash and pollution people create on the beach and…
Embedded Systems
In today's society, surveillance video is widely used with the enhancement of security awareness. As the capacity of the monitoring device is limited, the previous monitoring content will be…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
The use of UAVs has increased rapidly in the last decade. They are now implemented in various research operations and inspections. The main limitation of drones is their short flight time of…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As natural disasters are becoming more frequent and greater in intensity, effective disaster damage assessment has become crucial to save human lives and minimize economic impact. The curren…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Power grids, while necessary for the distribution of power billions rely on, face a growing number of threats from climate change and aging infrastructure. There is a strong need for a bette…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Asian elephants are an endangered species and human-elephant conflict poses a grave threat to their existence. Human-elephant conflict refers to the negative interactions between humans and…
Embedded Systems
As a result of office work and screen entertainment, people have been sitting for long periods of time in unhealthy postures, and this has had negative physical and mental health consequence…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Estuaries are wetlands where freshwater from streams mixes with salt water from sea. Also known as “kidneys of our planet”- they are extremely productive environments that filter pollutants,…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The wrist is a compact multi-dimensional mechanical actuation structure in humanoid robot design. The mechanical structure of the human-shaped wrist should meet the requirements of the multi…
Translational Medical Science
Afflicting 45 million people worldwide, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that begins 20 years or more before symptoms manifest. Early detection is critical for interve…
Microbiology
The purpose of this study was to explore bacteria growth on runners’ shoes. Part one of this experiment aimed to determine how many bacteria grew in running shoes before and after running. I…