Applied Mechanics & Structures
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to reduce rollover accidents involving large truck by engineering an Electronic Stability Control system called Active Tilt Compensation (AT…
Energy: Chemical
Liquids possess potential for use as adaptive lenses; lenses that can change their optical properties. The Double Droplet System (DDS) provides a unique type of liquid lens, one that rapidly…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Replicable experiments of zoonotic diseases are impossible due to the transient, chaotic nature of natural environments and the large scale of dynamics involved. I hypothesi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Aliivibrio Fischeri is a very effective, economical, and quick method to detect toxins in water using bioluminescence. In this experiment, toxicity of water was tested using the bioluminesce…
Energy: Chemical
Currently, the methods used to minimize the loss that a tsunami could cause are, for differing reasons, not effective enough. Breakwaters are also often not strong enough to combat a tsunami…
Embedded Systems
Computers have always been a huge part of our lives, whether in desktop or mobile applications. Some think of the mobile as the future, yet with the computational power constantly evolving i…
Microbiology
By doing quick measurements of the growth of simple Prokaryote bacteria, it should be possible to estimate the relative genome size. This is possible by a simple estimation of the growth rat…
Plant Sciences
The inhibitors of apoptosis (IAP) are a group of eight human proteins thought to inhibit apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting cellular immortality characteristic of cancer cells. The…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to investigate to see which houseplant removes the Carbon Monoxide (a toxic gas) in thirty minutes. Based on my research, the hypothesis I forme…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Studies trace the cause of hematological malignancies to changes in gene sequences involved in hematopoietic system development. Such changes can potentially alter the prope…
Chemistry
Many global and national recessions have been caused by or exacerbated by bank failures. The most recent economic crisis, the recession of 2008, was triggered by a banking panic. Accurately…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective or goal of my experiment was to determine if grey water can be successfully used to grow plants. Today, water is being wasted all over the world and we don't r…
Engineering Mechanics
In his experiment the author uses a side slip to land a model Cessna 170 in crosswind conditions. He hypothesizes that equipping aircraft with intelligent autonomous holonomic landing gear i…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to study the effects of freezing on cells by using ion leakage to assess cell membrane damage. When beet root discs are frozen and thawed, w…
Environmental Science
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, is an indicator of ocean pollution Methods/Materials One Carolina Bacterial Pollution of Water k…
Plant Sciences
Cancer is a major cause of mortality in most developed and underdeveloped countries of the world, and is now considered to be secondary only to that of myocardial infarction. It is a growing…
Energy: Physical
Interface and colloid science has produced nanoparticles with which researchers can manipulate materials at atomic, molecular or supramolecular levels. This new and extremely small investiga…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to create a filter that would use shells to reduce acidity in water by a factor of ten (increase by 1.0 on the pH scale) within 5 hours, leave no sediments in the w…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
This project was done to test which piezo element most efficiently converted the energy from a vibrational source. It was hypothesized that the V22B piezo element, with its superior design s…
Embedded Systems
Now there are many ways to detect cancer in its early stages, but they are inaccurate and final results will be obtained through quite a long time. So it is important to find a method of dia…
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this scientific research was to build a solar panel and discover which section of the roof of a Hogan and which solar panel design absorbed the most energy to create the great…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Our project involves analyzing sets of genomic sequences and the underlying similarities and interconnected relations between them. Our project makes use of homology groups and the Smith-Wat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Many experts agree that energy may become the most important issue that society will face in the future. As fossil fuel sources are quickly being depleted and nuclear energy has proven to be…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to create an efficient, reliable, low-cost and alternative source of energy from pine cones. Mature female Pinus coulteri cones were used in the study. In the…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
This project explores themes of an organically friendly, globally accessible product of milk to increase grain yields. The supreme concepts behind the idea to use milk are to apply carbohydr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Hospital-acquired infections are becoming increasingly numerous and difficult to manage. There are strict regulations in most hospitals regarding infection control however these are scarce r…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
The world is heading towards an energy crisis due to the huge consumption of energy in many fields including, but not restricted to, distillation techniques. Thermal distillation technique,…
Embedded Systems
The internet as global communication platform evolved to a pillar of modern society. Increasing demand to exchange data keeps putting a fundamental question to internet service providers: Ho…
Systems Software
The objective of this study was to determine the optimal flight path re-entry angle during the end-of-life of the International Space Station (ISS) that would be most effective at minimizing…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Tumor-associated lymphatics play an important role in tumor growth and metastasis. In this in vitro study, gold nanoshell (AuNS) mediated photothermolysis of lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC…