Microbiology
Over time, antibiotics have become less efficient as a method to combat bacterial infections due to growing antibiotic resistance. New classes of antibiotics are constantly being developed t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To make sure that a game is interesting, easy to play and balanced, game developers need to test it thoroughly and adjust its rules. This is challenging for individual developers due to the…
Animal Sciences
The antlions (larvae) are common insects living in sands, digging pits to trap passing preys. Their backward movement to seize the preys to the bottom of pits is unique, which, however, has…
Hearing impairment and loss are common problems among the aged. Traditional hearing aids, which amplify the volume of sound, are not effective in solving high frequency loss. There are frequ…
Anthracnose disease, caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is among one of the most destructive diseases of plants worldwide. C. gloeosporioides is listed as one of the top 10 fungal pat…
A magnetic induction line is a closed curve that depicts the magnetic field. Current research on the application of the magnetic induction line is extensive, but rarely focuses on the study…
Inspired by the pollution caused by automobile emission, this project provides a new efficient adsorption device of automobile exhaust particles. The device primarily consists of three secti…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Vehicle exhaust is one of the major pollution sources. An efficient method of emission control is to convert exhaust pollutants to less harmful substances by the catalyst placed in the exhau…
As we know that water sensor is widely used in our daily life, industry, agriculture, building and so on. But traditional water sensors need direct electricity supply, which is power-consumi…
With the significant advantages in solving NP-complete problems, DNA computing is considered a promising computational method. This project presented a novel DNA universal computing method a…
In order to help workers who climb to the top of the poles, such as flag poles, telegraph poles and billboards, to do the detection and maintenance, we create this multi-link gravity based c…
Invention purpose : to design pencil full-automatic planing device with simple structure, to improve the automation degree of sharpening pen, environmental protection and to enhance the work…
Third Award
The growth of online commerce has increased freight truck density on city streets, consequently worsening congestion and carbon emissions while limiting logistical efficiency. This investiga…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to the traditional VSEPR theory, the calculation method of the number of central atom’s valence shell electron pair is limited. When studying the geometry of molecule (ion), people…
Ensuring the safety of drinking water is a basic livelihood issue. Frequent occurrences of water odor accidents in recent years have attracted increasing public attention to organic micro-po…
The main purpose of this project is to see which direction of motor spinning takes better tire grip. When the motor spins, according to the newton’s third law, it always has the opposite for…
Third Award
[Research purpose] Skateboarding World Day falls on June 21 every year. The skateboard is divided into two categories: (1) Trick Board; (2) Long board. The latter is more popular. For the sa…
The world is plagued with dangerous situations including everything from accidents to wars, that often result in people losing a hand, arm or leg. Industrial accidents, as a result of danger…
Logic programming languages have been long experimented and understood. Its components and its interactions with functional programming languages have also been a frequent topic. Its ability…
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is recently considered as a promising technique for the remediation of contaminated water. In this study, we constructed a novel MFC device to realize efficient rem…
Smart glasses have become a major research interest in the field of wearable devices because of their vast potential applications. Currently most commercially available smart glasses product…
Fourth Award
Art and science are often thought to be polar opposite. This project, Origami Transformer, bridges ancient art with computer science by creating a self-folding origami with the aid of a comp…
The aim of this project is to investigate how differing geometric vessel shapes affect the fractional flow reserve value, given constant percent stenosis. The chosen geometry shapes were a c…
The traditional papermaking industry consumes enormous energy and causes serious pollution. In addition, a lot of paper is wasted. How can be the paper reusable? In this study, a new type of…
This work investigated whether Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be used to predict fluid Intelligence, an innate intelligence, when weights or graph theoretical features of functional brain ne…
The rolling lamp, a cultural heritage in China, also represent a kind of structure that is interesting mathematically. We define a math model of the rolling lamp, which is an arrangement of…
Tossing a coin is often used to make a binary decision. For the coins in daily life, there exist protuberant parts, portrait or decorative pattern on the surface. The mass is non-uniform dis…
In an unknown area where the signal is shielded. Celestial Navigation System (CNS) will not apply. So the authors hope to design a navigation device which avoids delivery of external signal…
ONRUN Platform is trying to construct a human-like intelligent integrated body which can sense any changes taking place at any place at any time and make people know of them. And the integra…
More than 10,000 people die of formaldehyde pollution of indoor air every year in China. However, existing commercial solutions to this problem have drawbacks, such as low efficiency and hig…