Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals With the energy crisis and environmental concerns in mind, I started a project last year to see if I could reduce the amount of energy used by computers that come from envir…
Today 5% of the United States’s total energy consumption comes from air conditioner use at a cost of $11 billion and a release of 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annua…
The purpose of this experiment was to find out the nitrogen release patterns of organic fertilizer (tankage), in two different soils (Poamoho and Waimanalo) by using four different nitrogen…
Systems Software
A 12-lead electrocardiograms(ECGs) is widely used. Medical doctors depend on experience for diagnosing arrhythmia. Yet, they may make a wrong arrhythmia diagnosis. Although convenient automa…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
In this current study, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid was carried out by cyclical voltammetry utilizing novel Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode coated with doped (…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to effectively measure the concentrations of nitrate found in ground and drinking water and to use a commercially available titanium dioxide pho…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy source. In order to allow the safe handling of hydrogen, however, it is important to redu…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine which color (out of red, yellow, green, and blue) a child could see most readily using their peripheral vision. Research done on this says tha…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to find out how fast light travels through different mediums. Methods/Materials Materials 5 Sheets of Paper; Pen; Ruler; Printer; Printable Radi…
Within the research the regeneration of Articular Cartilage using hADSC and Heparin Sulfate was conducted. Different degrees of Methacrylation were tested on hADSCs and in different hydrogel…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proper and functional innervation of the heart by the autonomic nervous system is critical for healthy cardiac function. Inadequate innervation or an imbalance of the two branches of the aut…
Third Award
According to U.S. Energy Administration Information, each day more than 100 million of air conditioners use massive amount of energy to cool down the daily stuffiness, in U.S. The problem is…
Biomedical Engineering
Our project was born with the aim to give people suffering from Dysmetria a useful and effective way of improving their opportunities for rehabilitation. Dysmetria, a particular case of Atax…
Switchgrass is a perennial, native prairie grass with strong potential as a biofuel stock crop. This project studied the relationship between switchgrass, fertilizer, and arbuscular mycorrhi…
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if bone char can successfully remediate water contaminated with arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc, or a combination thereof. If bone char effectiv…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is designed to test the extent of people's short-term memory, and reveal how age and gender cause people's minds to function differently. The hypothesis was if the age of female…
Storm water from parking lots, driveways, and gas stations is often contaminated with the aromatic compound benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) that are a fraction of gasoline…
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory properties of CNI-1493 as a treatment for intracellular amyloid beta toxicity and chronic neuro-inflammati…
This research is about a phenomenon where a half-black-painted glass bottle will make a sound when certain optical pulse reaches it. Firstly, different variables such as paint type, bottle s…
In the course of my project, I wanted to examine if impregnating carbon nanotubes with different metal-oxides in a way so that the metal-oxides take their positive effects on nanotube based…
In order to save energy, reduce emissions and benefit society , I invented the device for recovering the braking energy.The regenerator has the function of assisting in braking the vehicle,t…
In the case of ordinary manual wheelchair cannot climb the kerbs. So it causes danger of accidents and limited occupant's activity. Our research developed a wheelchair which can overcome the…
This study sought to develop a next-generation high efficiency aircraft that uses the structure of traditional bangpaeyeon(kite) of Korea. In terms of the procedure of the study, a wind tunn…
Nowadays, as one of the computer data security problems, the leakage of private data on the personal computer is becoming more and more serious in our life. To find an easier and more reliab…
Bunyaviridae family is a group of RNA single negative strand viruses, including 5 geniuses and more than 350 species known. Pre-researches show that all Bunya viruses have special nucleoprot…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to investigate the effect of the separation distance between the transmitting and receiving coils on the efficiency of resonance wireless energy transfer. M…
Systems Software
In 2008, people in the United States spent about seventeen billion dollars on health care for acute coughs. This project set out to create a program to diagnose Croup, Pertussis and Asthma f…
Biomedical Engineering
Glutathione (GSH) is a naturally found antioxidant in the body that reduces oxidative stress and assists in preserving tissue homeostasis. It has been shown that GSH levels are lower in diab…
Zoology
First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether Pieris rapae butterflies can retain memories of experiences from their larval stage. Methods/Materials Pieris rapae eggs were obtained…
First Award
On average, pharmaceutical companies spend $2.6 billion and twelve years to develop a single drug. Most small molecule drugs are discovered by high-throughput robotic screening, an expensive…