Energy: Physical
Purpose: To determine if vortex generators improve efficiency of 3D printed vertical axis wind turbines housed in a venturi. Vortex generators were positioned at the entrance of a venturi to…
Systems Software
With issues of school safety rapidly becoming more prevalent, a need for a solution to this problem has equally risen. As it stands, no systems track both student location and the location o…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short sequences of RNA (about 22 nucleotides) that are involved in the regulation of gene expression. My previous study has identified the serum miR-134 as a new bioma…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives Testing 3D point cloud neural networks to see if they are susceptible to adversarial attacks like previous results on 2D images, proposing new algorithms for both attacking and de…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
One day my family suddenly faced on “cancer” when my grandfather had serious lung cancer. I wished so much to save him if it was possible. I expect there would be better way to detect the ea…
Chemistry
This experiment was designed to combat the problem of plastics staying in the environment for years and harming plant life. In order to make a biodegradable and edible plastic, an ingredient…
Translational Medical Science
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world. Due to the necessity of expensive ophthalmoscopic equipment and a trained professional, the screening pr…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
Earth absorbs approximately 3850 zeta joules of solar energy year-1, which is more than enough to power the entire planet. Solar cell technologies have the potential to harvest this energy;…
Materials Science
Micro-/nano-structured surfaces in nature inspire many cutting-edge applications. Chameleon skin contains flexible micro-/nano-structures that can be geometrically tuned in response to envir…
Mammalian Biology
First Award
Objectives The objective of this project is to determine if a person s facial parameters change over time. With increasing use of facial recognition as a method of identification, it is rele…
Materials Science
PURPOSE: Extend the endothermic chemical reaction of ammonium nitrate by adding a hydrated polymer and alkaloid to create a survival shelter from a firetruck cab that won’t exceed 37°C of he…
Chemistry
Objectives To extend the endothermic chemical reaction of ammonium nitrate by adding a hydrated polymer and alkaloid to create a survival shelter from a firetruck cab that will not exceed 37…
Chemistry
Objectives In crime scene investigations, it is easy to miss evidence of blood stains without careful application of Luminol, a chemiluminescent substance. My objective is to study the impac…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives The purpose of this project is to investigate how income, population, grade and school history impact the performance of a project at the California State Science and Engineering…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives I wanted to learn if the strength of an arch decreases as the size of an arch increases. Methods Eggshells have a naturally occurring arch shape. I used different sizes of eggshel…
Background: Women who have a family history of breast cancer are known to have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. However, there is much less data on the association of family histor…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Heaping behavior of granular materials under vertical vibration has attracted increasing interest in recent years as it is a beautiful example of gas-granular interaction and granular hydrod…
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of the Faraday Return project was to pioneer innovation in the field of generator technology through a new generator technology that takes full advantage of Faraday's law of elec…
Plant Sciences (inferred)
The rise of human population indicates the need to make humans a multiplanetary species. Exploration of Mars by physically present scientists will lead to a critical requirement for food. Th…
Plant Sciences
There are many compelling reasons to explore Mars: to understand climatic changes, to understand ancient environment conducive to life’s origin, and to find a new home for the rising populat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The present research involves the areas of mechanical engineering and assistive technology. It is a technological study on the feasibility of building an electromechanical device with severa…
Systems Software
Third Award
The intensity and length of wildfire seasons around the world is increasing, exacerbated by climate-change-related factors such as drought and insect infestation. Fire fighting cost Montana…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used extensively across the world to get detailed physiological images that are unattainable with other imaging modalities. Although it has widespread app…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Usually, training of an assistant robot recognition system requires more than 100 man-hours because input image material should be collected and marked up, usually manually. It also makes a…
Biochemistry
The experiment I conducted is about the fat content of various snack foods. The purpose of my experiment was to gain knowledge about the types of fats that snacks contain and to help educate…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion inference is the ability to infer how another individual is feeling and is crucial to social interaction and well-being. The predominant form of investigation involves unimodal, simp…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
This project is intended for helping Parkinson patients have meals more easily by using a feeding robot that applies image processing and voice recognition technology in its control method.…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives The objective of this experiment was to discover the effect of different masses of iron filings on the oxygen production of Thalassiosira diatoms (defined as the concentration of…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives Examine the effects of periodic, compressive mechanical loading administered via a mechanical pressure device on collagen fiber orientation and fibroblast proliferation. Methods T…
Chemistry
Objectives The objective of my experiment is to determine if iron absorbs faster on an empty stomach or a full stomach. Methods Iron detector tablets, iron color chart, test tubes, distilled…