Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Finding new and more efficient forms of clean energy is necessary for humanity to survive the coming centuries, and although current methods of nuclear fusion are promising, they also produc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In this project, classification of music genres with deep neural networks is explored. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was trained to identify 10 different music genres. Using the GTZAN…
Environmental Engineering
In 2050, it is estimated that approximately 5.7 billion people will suffer due to the lack of clean water. Many studies have been developed to treat the water from various contaminants. This…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
First Award
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family proteins, consisting of HER1-4, are the most prominent causes of various human cancers, including breast, gastric, esophagus, lung, pancrea…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Causal relationships have been established between blood-brain barrier (BBB) & inner blood-retina barrier (iBRB) dysfunction and many age-related CNS disorders. However, mechanisms governing…
Systems Software
Existing methods for COVID-19 informational websites rely on multiple sources that are not clearly labeled which leads to a lack of transparency and trust due to the fragmentation of data be…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to the global pandemic situation, several parameters have been affected within societies. One of those parameters is human resources, specifically, this research worked with students fro…
Biomedical Engineering
We propose a novel approach to detect arrhythmias in Phonocardiograms (PCGs). Typically, many arrhythmia conditions are unknown until a patient is suggested an ECG/EKG test. This method, des…
Environmental Engineering
The industrial revolution impacts in ecosystem and animal's wild, while there are many organizations to protect this animal and environment from human’s behavior. However, Oman has variable…
Systems Software
Third Award
While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications,…
Biomedical Engineering
Patients often need use of their arms to assist with functional activities, but after bone disruption, pushing is often limited to <10 lb (4.5 kg). Currently, no method exists to measure upp…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project was to modify the Brewbaker and Kwack (BK) pollen tube culture medium for the Cucurbita pepo species. A modified BK medium would allow for in vitro instead of in…
Engineering Mechanics
Full-size rockets often employ carbon-based engines that release hundreds of metric tons of greenhouse gases, in addition to large amounts of toxins including nitrogen oxides, soot, and alum…
Materials Science
Regularly used petroleum based plastics are the cause of many prevalent and urgent environmental issues, two of which being global warming and plastic pollution. Bioplastics, recognized by F…
Engineering Mechanics
As school shootings have almost doubled in the past decade, student safety is essential. While many schools have adopted expensive camera based security systems, this project seeks to provid…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Over 1.7 million people in the United States alone are currently living with limb loss. Estimates show that 185,000 amputations are performed each year, with that number expected to double i…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
First Award
In this project, I successfully studied the relationship between multi-enzyme biocatalyst structure and performance and developed a comprehensive quantitative model to predict the assembly e…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In comparison to other energy sources, geothermal energy is a safe option. Since it is clean and green, the world has begun to pay attention to geothermal energy. It produces enormous quanti…
Microbiology
The interest and demand for fermented coffees with unique tastes and aromas are increasing every year. Highly valued ones are naturally fermented in the intestines of wild civet cats, which…
Biomedical Engineering
According to the 2010 statistic by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, there are 720,000 hearing impaired persons in Saudi Arabia. Currently, efficient devices that enhance their experienc…
Environmental Engineering
Surgical instruments must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after each usage. During the drying process, frequent usage of pressure air guns leads to bioaerosol generation, which can eas…
Materials Science
Artificial stone (AS) is produced through hydration reactions of a mixture of white cement, aggregates, additives and water. AS is used as an alternative material of natural stone for econom…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar energy conversion systems are crucial in life due to our dependency on electricity. They are green and renewable energy sources, thus, allows people to design multiple systems involvin…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Many corporations lack the software and knowledge for advanced inventory optimization and management, so suffer stockouts, bloated inventory, and inefficient ordering policy. Material Requir…
Systems Software
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are an optimization technique inspired by natural selection. GAs have yielded good results in certain practical problems, yet there is still more to be understood ab…
Mathematics
Second Award
The purpose of this research is to enumerate the number of ways of dissecting a convex polygon with arbitrary prescribed conditions on the allowable polygon pieces. It is well known that the…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Irregular surface area, such as lake area, is hard to calculate using definite integrals and is traditionally calculated by using graph paper with small squares. Utilizing the Monte Carlo me…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer cells are formed when mitosis, the asexual reproduction of cells, becomes uncontrollable and cells can no longer send or receive signals concerning their own growth. The purpose of th…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
I was watching the news one day and heard about a little boy who died due to swallowing a button cell battery. I thought how could a battery that seems coated and protected kill anyone? The…
Chemistry
This project in its present form is the result of extensive research about the effects of using plastic water bottles and using spherification to hold in water. The initial idea was to find…