Biomedical Engineering
We developed a new method of notification of a person about the surroundings through an acoustic channel. Suggested method allows creation of a device that assists visually impaired people t…
Electric vehicles are vehicles that run using batteries and electricity rather than gas. Due to the production of electric vehicles showing an increase for years to come I wanted to create a…
Biochemistry
The emerging global water crisis is significant. Urban congestion is mushrooming at an alarming rate and has increased by 41 percent since the early 1990s. Consequently, with agriculture bei…
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics are a major source of pollution in our oceans and waterways. One source of microplastics is microfibers released from washing synthetic clothing. Wastewater treatment plants ar…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
For various biomedical applications, biosensors are particularly important and can be introduced via photonic optical microlasers. In the past, such sensing systems have been created using b…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition in which the kidneys gradually lose their function and in most cases deteriorate to end-stage renal disease. Early detection helps those at risk t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Microplastics in the air cause respiratory diseases and worsen the health of the population, thus a nose filter with a biodegradable membrane may reduce their adverse effects on the respirat…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment. According to the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, it is estimated that between 2% and 5% of all pl…
Microplastics, an emerging pollutant shorter than 5mm, pose a significant threat as their concentrations increase. With coral reef health in decline, particularly due to rising temperatures,…
Materials Science
For many years, deforestation has been an environmental disaster that continues to grow. It is the cause of numerous animal and species extinction, reduction in oxygen levels in the atmosphe…
Systems Software
Third Award
The need for developing and delivering interactive web applications has grown rapidly. Thus, Million.js was created to allow for the creation of compiler-augmented JavaScript UI libraries th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
According to the WHO, there are currently 2.2 billion people who live with visual impairment in the world. A sighted person is able to take in 3D spatial information by taking the 3D locatio…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Mind games are puzzles that can be solved using clues and cognitive skills and their benefits in cognitive development have been demonstrated in experimental studies. In addition, an increas…
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving motor neurons in the cerebral cortex severely impairing patient’s lives. P300 speller-based brain computer…
Mathematics
The max-cut problem as part of extremal combinatorics was formulated by Paul Erdos in the 1960s. Multiple papers have been written on the topic regarding its role in mathematics as an extrem…
The researcher will be programming a robot so that it can solve a maze autonomously. The researcher will learn Lego Minestorm NXT (this program uses C++) to program the robot. To solve a maz…
Translational Medical Science
Paracetamol is a widely used drug due to its analgesic and antipyretic properties, however, intramolecular bonding that occurs between the drug’s chemical groups make it susceptible to a hea…
In many applications of clinical machine learning, available datasets may not be sufficiently large enough to train generalizable supervised machine learning models. To improve the generaliz…
As mobility and multicultural exposure become increasingly prevalent in the globalized world, it becomes more important to understand their effect on how people view themselves and their pla…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
A mobile carbon capture device to extract CO2 from car exhaust was designed and built to fit in a normal passenger car, a Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). The mobile device was construct…
Systems Software
The purpose of this research is to assess the comfortability of today’s transportation as well as the ticket validation process in Estonia and compare it to a new solution provided by Kardif…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alcoholism is a leading cause of premature death and disability globally. Alcohol use has profound mental and physical impacts including impaired decision-making skills and diseases related…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Quorum sensing (QS) in bacteria is the process of cell-cell communication for the purpose of acquiring information about cellular density in the environment. The detection of cellular densit…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coastal forests are among the world’s most important carbon (C) stores, sequestering C faster than terrestrial forests per unit area. However, these essential C sinks are increasingly threat…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The abundance of M-dwarfs, combined with the relative ease of detecting Earth-sized planets around them, has made them prime targets for finding and characterizing planets in their ‘habitabl…
The evolution of a planet’s atmosphere depends strongly on the properties of its host star. When their host stars are younger, planets can experience stronger winds and XUV emission. This is…
Physics and Astronomy
The seasonal cycling of volatile nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ices from pole to pole causes significant changes in Triton's atmospheric pressure. The ability to model these changes…
Physics and Astronomy
Different types of surfboards, with different parts that affect the "behavior" of these when riding them. Each part has a variety of modifications that are used for a specific type of person…
Chemistry
Second Award
Silica capillaries have been an integral part of the instrumentation used in many areas of analytical chemistry for decades, especially in analytical separations. In most cases, they are use…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Two major induction motor designs exist, the first being the squirrel cage induction motor with high efficiency and a poor starting torque, and the second being the slip-ring motor with a gr…