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Design and Implementation of the Fish Gill Imitation Side-Window Regulator for Ducted Fan UAVs

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

Conventional unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) commonly suffer from under actuation, meaning they only have four control degrees of freedom (DOF) and lack two control channels in the horizonta…

Design, Construction and Implementation of Educational Games Such as Learning Strategy for the Subject of Biology

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Education is a sociocultural process aimed at the full realization of the human being as a person and the improvement of all the conditions that benefit the development and transformation of…

Design, Construction, and Testing of a Passenger-Capable eVTOL Hexacopter

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award

Electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft could enable the implementation of large-scale Urban Air Mobility projects, thereby mitigating problems that currently face the transpo…

Designing a Hybrid 3D-Printed Piezoelectric Wheel for Energy Harvesting and Storage in Electric Vehicles

This research project targets the recent issue of limited energy storage and consumption efficiency in electric vehicles (EVs), which hinders their wider adoption. T o tackle this challenge,…

Designing an Activated Carbon Filter to Reduce Water Contamination from Fire Water Runoff

During many industrial fires, the chemicals released from the incineration of materials inside the building and ones commonly used by firefighters to extinguish the fire are often picked up…

Designing an Activated Carbon Filter to Reduce Water Contamination From Fire Water Runoff

Environmental Engineering

During many industrial fires, the chemicals released from the incineration of materials inside the building and ones commonly used by firefighters to extinguish the fire are often picked up…

Designing an Approach for Recovering Energy From Waste Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Bottles and Fibers

Chemistry

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a widely used plastic polymer presents significant environmental challenges due to its extensive production and disposal. In this study, we investigated the…

Designing and Constructing an Automatic, Non-Electrical Dependent Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Machine Gen 2.0

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The ongoing problem of medical malpractice, which accounts for nearly 251,000 deaths per year, highlights the need for a more sophisticated solution to the issue of human error. To address t…

Designing and Constructing an Automatic, Non-Electrical, Pneumatic Based CPR Device to Eliminate Human Error in the Medical Field Gen 2.0.

Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award

The ongoing problem of medical malpractice, which accounts for nearly 251,000 deaths per year, highlights the need for a more sophisticated solution to the issue of human error. To address t…

Designing and Engineering a Smart Robot for Collecting and Arranging Badminton Shuttlecocks

Embedded Systems

Badminton training is popular in China, but trainees often struggle with the tedious task of collecting and arranging scattered shuttlecocks during sessions. To overcome this, there is a nee…

Designing and Prototyping and LIDAR Based Haptic Navigation Vest for the Visually Impaired and Special Forces

Embedded Systems

With the conception of the mobility aid cane, or more commonly known as a ‘white cane’, being over 100 years old with little improvement to its primary function while still holding the same…

Designing a Novel Primer Blocker using Bioconjugation of Single Stranded Binding Protein and Oligonucleotides for Improved KRAS Mutation Detection

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award

The Kirsten rat sarcoma viral (KRAS) gene is the most frequently mutated oncogene, responsible for many types of highly fatal cancers — notably, pancreatic, colorectal, and non-small cell lu…

Designing a Novel Primer Blocker Using Bioconjugation of Single Stranded Binding Protein and Oligonucleotides for Improved KRAS Mutation Detection

Translational Medical Science Third Award

The Kirsten rat sarcoma viral (KRAS) gene is the most frequently mutated oncogene, responsible for many types of highly fatal cancers — notably, pancreatic, colorectal, and non-small cell lu…

Designing a Personalized Probiotic to Prevent/Alleviate Type Two Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Microbiology

The human microbiome makes up 90% of the cells in our body and that makes us just 10% human. The microbiome has long been associated with several human diseases. Our microbiome in homeostasi…

Designing Mechanical Arms to Use on Flood-Prone Bridges to Save Lives

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The purpose of the investigation is to save lives. The project emerges from the concerns regarding the dangerous conditions of bridges in Puerto Rico and how these have already taken a toll…

Design of a CLIPTAC Probe Molecule for the Treatment of EGFR Mutated Adenocarcinoma

Translational Medical Science

In-cell click-formed proteolysis targeting chimera molecules (CLIPTACs) were developed to allow both the inhibition and ubiquitination (degradation) of mutated proteins causing various disea…

Design of a Continuous Penta-Membrane Hybrid Filter for Absolute Filtration Water

Materials Science

This project deals with the design, assembly, characterization and analysis of a five step water filtration system. The principles of material science, solid state physics, polymer physics,…

Design of a Novel, Dual-Functioning, Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Factor XI Inhibiting Anticoagulant Therapeutic for Rapid Ischemic Stroke Treatment

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with 15 million people suffering from its debilitating effects each year. 87% of strokes are ischemic, where an artery narrows or becom…

Design of Experiment Optimisation of the Suzuki Cross-Coupling: A Synthesis of Biphenyl, Catalysed by Palladium Tetrakis, from Phenylboronic Acid and Bromobenzene

Chemistry

The Suzuki reaction is a widely used method for forming carbon-carbon bonds in organic synthesis. The palladium-catalysed reaction are highly successful due to the high reactivity of boranes…

Design of Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticle for Separating and Combating Waterborne Pathogen

Materials Science

Water is essential for human life. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), even in the twenty first century, safe drinking water without toxic metal and waterborne pathogens is lacking f…

Detailed Binary Evolution Modeling: Comparing COSMIS and MESA

The study of the evolution and formation of binary star systems is an instrumental component to both interpreting gravitational wave observations and predicting the fate of binaries in the u…

Detecting Cataracts From Front-View Retinal Images Using Machine Learning

Systems Software

Cataracts, which are the clouding of the crystalline lens, are a progressive disease, and its early detection is critical for preventing blindness. There are some manual techniques to detect…

Detecting Hidden Security Threats With Thermal Camera

Embedded Systems

Biometric authentication has become ubiquitous in the modern world. Other forms of biometric authentication: iris, retina, fingerprint, and face verification, are simple and easy to use, but…

Detecting Hypoxia Through the Non-Invasive Monitoring of Sweat Lactate and Tissue Oxygenation

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Hypoxia is the state of insufficient tissue oxygenation to support homeostasis that, if untreated in time, can lead to tissue damage and organ failure. However, there is a lack of accurate a…

Detecting Myofascial Tightness in the Lower Extremities

Biomedical Engineering

The fascia is a layer of connective tissue that connects to most internal structures of the human body to keep them in place. Myofascial tightness is tightness within the fascia that connect…

Detecting Potentially Life-Threatening Near Earth Objects in NASA Wise Data Using an Efficient Deep Neural Network

Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award

Over the last decade, astronomers have documented more than 90% of the Near Earth Objects (NEOs) larger than 1 km in diameter, but have missed detections of smaller NEOs. Small NEOs are hard…

Detecting Prevotella and Sneathia in Adolescent Vaginal Microbiomes Using 16s rRNA Gene Sequencing and Spreading Awareness of Under-Recognized Women’s Health Issues Through CARE: A Health Marketing Campaign

Microbiology

Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) infections are the most prevalent sexually-transmitted infection (STI) globally, yet there remains a dearth of common knowledge about its often-asymptomatic transm…

Detection of Harmful Microorganisms in Drinking Water Using Deep Learning

Environmental Engineering

Water is one of the most essential facets of human life, yet billions of people worldwide, especially in remote areas, do not have access to safe drinking water. Harmful microorganisms in co…

Detection of Malignant Lung Tumors From CT Scans Through Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

Translational Medical Science

Lung cancer is the primary cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. According to the American Cancer Society, misdiagnoses and lack of early detection are frequent, leading to tumor metasta…

Detection of Skateboarding Tricks Based on Gyroscopic Data

Embedded Systems

With the rising popularity of skateboarding from large international events such as the Olympics, Street League Skateboarding and X Games, reliable and accurate trick detection gets increasi…