Biomedical Engineering
Over 1.5 billion people worldwide experience hearing loss, and 2.2 billion have vision impairments. Both require assistive technologies; however, millions lack access due to cost. To address…
Environmental Engineering
Only half of global wastewater is treated—dropping to just 4.3% in low-income countries—while treatment consumes 4% of global electricity. With the energy sector already accounting for 75% o…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Jetstream is the world’s fastest drone, flying at 40% of the speed of sound. Jetstream paves the way for future high-speed-drone design, enabling future drones to tackle a new realm of high-…
Physics and Astronomy
Traditional exoplanet detection methods often overlook multi-planet systems containing long-period or non-transiting planets due to observational biases favoring short-period transiting plan…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The widespread use of synthetic surfactants in household detergents pose major environmental risks due to chemical persistence of non-biodegradable petrochemicals in ecosystems. However, Sap…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Traditional Darwinian models of evolution treat adaptive selection as the primary evolutionary factor for most traits. Although this approach is predictive in many cases, it struggles to exp…
Embedded Systems
Hospital-induced Delirium (HID) affects 30% of patients causing fluctuating cognitive disturbances, tripling mortality risk and costing North American healthcare systems $164 billion annuall…
Materials Science
Stem cell therapy holds tremendous promise for treating illnesses by regenerating damaged body tissues. However, no stem cell treatments for cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, or ortho…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Second Award
The 2023 Canadian wildfire season, marked by a quintupling of damage relative to the past decade’s average and the tragic loss of four firefighters, underscores the urgent need for advanceme…
Translational Medical Science
Malaria is a deadly disease that claims the lives of over 460,000 children annually. Current diagnostic methods use labor-intensive microscopy to image Giemsa-stained blood smears, limiting…
Physics and Astronomy
The pace of asteroid discovery surpasses the rate at which their physical properties can be analyzed. To date, phase curves, which are crucial for asteroid characterization, have been genera…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Spinal treatment modalities such as spinal fusion and trauma surgery, radiofrequency ablation, and cancer biopsies require the utmost precision to avoid damaging critical structures such as…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the most common pediatric cancer, is characterized by the proliferation of immature, leukemic B-lymphocytes in the bone marrow. CAR-T cell therap…
Embedded Systems
First Award
The 10m Air Rifle competition is an ISSF Summer Olympic sport where 1mm can make the difference between winning and losing. Over 57,000 cadets in Canada train with the 853C air rifle in the…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Survival chances of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients are near zero after 10 minutes, but EMS response rates are on average 9 minutes or longer. This project developed the first indoor…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Hypoxia is the state of insufficient tissue oxygenation to support homeostasis that, if untreated in time, can lead to tissue damage and organ failure. However, there is a lack of accurate a…
Environmental Engineering
Water is one of the most essential facets of human life, yet billions of people worldwide, especially in remote areas, do not have access to safe drinking water. Harmful microorganisms in co…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Hemiplegia is a type of paralysis where one side of the body experiences a loss of motor function. Hemiplegics may be confined to a wheelchair, which presents health issues such as low bone…
Biomedical Engineering
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms are issues related to the bladder system, affecting over 80% of men above 60. Symptoms are caused either by an obstruction in the urinary tract or a weak bladder…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Harmful algae blooms plague aquatic ecosystems around the world. They impact water quality and ecosystem diversity, cause dead zones, cost the fishing and tourism industries millions of doll…
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…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are potent catalysts for scientific-industrial impact. To maximize performance and hypothesis space, however, DNNs involve excessive parameters – impeding…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Biogas is a renewable energy source generated by the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic matter. Of all the gases produced by animal waste, 55-65% is methane, affecting global warming 21 tim…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Recently, a new, practical and publicly accessible satellite standard called the SmallSat has amplified public involvement in orbital research. This allows for flexible and efficient deploym…
Biomedical Engineering
Acute, chronic, and surgical wounds affect millions of people with unmet critical needs. There is no effective way to stop traumatic wound bleeding and suturing involves a risk of infection.…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a prevalent form of acquired injury that can lead to permanent disabilities and increased mortality. 90% of all TBI patients suffer visual impairment resultin…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The touch-sensible plants of the Mimosa genus are a factory of phytochemicals that could prolongate lifespan and treat autoimmune diseases such as diabetes. While its phytochemical flavonoid…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Walking robots are an important part of the future. Agile, adaptive, and able to walk almost anywhere. They have advantages in hazardous terrain exploration, search and rescue, domestic assi…
Translational Medical Science
Neurodegenerative diseases are among the top five causes of death worldwide, with one major cause of these diseases being high levels of oxidative stress. Nano-antioxidants are emerging nano…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
According to the World Health Organization, there are 240 million cases of preventable blindness globally. Many eye diseases are “silent-killers” of vision and current testing methods are of…