Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Optical microscopy is an essential tool for biomedical discoveries and cell diagnosis at micro- to nano-scales. However, conventional microscopes rely on lenses to record 2-D images of sampl…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a physical disruption of brain tissue followed by a cascade of inflammatory responses. The responses result in a transient disruption of the blood-brain barri…
Over the past decade, scientists have discovered species of plastic-eating worms, a key to unlocking how to degrade recalcitrant plastic. Plastic-eating worms have the ability to degrade pla…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
1 in 44 children in the USA are impacted by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but only <50% of children received effective early intervention due to delayed diagnosis. This represents a huge m…
Biomedical Engineering
Musculoskeletal injuries are occurring more and more frequently, with one of the main causes being the increasing number of new patients who sustain knee structure injuries. Currently, exosk…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Myocarditis is a disease in which there is inflammation located within the muscle tissue of the heart, or myocardium. It is characterized by infiltration of mononuclear inflammatory cells in…
Physics and Astronomy
The formation of oriented meteorites is taken as our research theme that included investigating the shape dependent characteristic in their motion trajectory and surface texture. Three camer…
Systems Software
This abstract highlights the development of an innovative app designed to reduce the phobia surrounding mental health. With a growing number of people suffering from mental health issues and…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Accurate weather predictions are crucial to infrastructure, economic security, and disaster prevention. Short-range hourly temperature forecasting has been the purview of statistical numeric…
Biomedical Engineering
Current dog prosthetics for the foreleg and shoulder are rigid and limiting for canines. These prosthetics do not allow the animal to lay down, sit properly, or traverse harsh terrain withou…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the new normal, teleconferencing has become increasingly adopted. However, people adopting sign language depend on interpreters in live online interactions, compromising their independenc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The sign language interpreter with built in translator is a communication device that aims at improving communication between deaf and able hearing communities. The research was conducted wi…
Materials Science
Creating biodegradable materials is imperative as plastic pollution contributes to global warming. A promising biodegradable material is silk because of its strength. To further enhance its…
Materials Science
Following surgery, dogs experience irritation on the skin around the surgical site due to pain, histamines, and the protein IL-31. These factors cause dogs to lick or scratch at their suture…
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a fear of a global ventilator shortage for treating patients. This prompted the development of low-cost ventilator designs worldwide. SimplyV…
During the developmental stages of mammalian embryos, the inner cell mass (ICM) gives rise to all embryonic tissues. The ICM, when adapted to in vitro culture, becomes embryonic stem cells (…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Approximately 80% of the gravitating matter in the universe has been determined to be "dark" (or non-baryonic) matter. Dark matter’s gravitational interactions with baryonic (luminous) matte…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CARM1 is a methyltransferase that methylates the BAF155 in the SWI/SNF protein complex, leading to cell proliferation and migration via the c-MYC pathway. SKI-73. EZM 2302, and TP-064 are th…
Embedded Systems
Around the world there has been a vast decline in the population of honeybees, the greatest pollinizer; climate change, and parasites are playing a part in the fall (Vercelli, 2021). Along t…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical refractive vision defect that affects 30% of the world population. Current subjective optometry of astigmatism is complicated, has low accuracy, and is dependent…
Materials Science
Many synthetic whitening products brought side effects while achieving whitening effect. In this work, we performed toxicity and whitening screening using cells and zebrafish embryos, and al…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Second Award
The Sky Eye Link is a novel intelligent algorithmic software system that operates on a homemade unmanned aerial vehicle, designed to help emergency personnel surveil wildfires through a radi…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWEs) are an innovative variant of wind energy technology that harness the power of high-altitude winds. However, conventional AWEs face limitations due to teth…
Plant Sciences
Access to soil analysis is limited in developing countries due to lack of equipment, expertise, and infrastructure. On-the-go soil sensors have emerged as a cost-effective solution to soil t…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Our project brings out a a safer, invulnerable, modern system that prevents water from freezing when temperature decreases and can later on be safely consumed by the human body. As to how we…
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to demonstrate the potential to predict soil temperature through a machine-learning approach, within a South African domestic garden environment. The vision of the project…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Third Award
Golf is gaining popularity during and post COVID, and golf practice ranges are often packed at peak hours. Making golf practice at home more effective and efficient will be beneficial to ten…
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
The goal of this project is to develop a tool that will help people who take a number of daily prescriptions, mostly aimed at the elderly, remember to take their medication. I constructed a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Long-term medication management for chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease requires medication adherence. However, research shows that only 50% of patients with chro…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Today, many countries are experiencing fires, environmental and natural disasters. As a result, firefighters and rescuers are used. But often they themselves become victims of such natural p…