Materials Science
Artificial intelligence hardware is increasingly constrained by the energy cost of data movement: a single DRAM access can consume 200× the energy of an on-chip compute operation. Neuromorph…
Materials Science
Over 140 million people worldwide rely on daily silicone contact lenses, generating ~15,000 tonnes of plastic waste annually and contributing to microplastic contamination through improper d…
Embedded Systems
With the global electronics market projected to double in the next decade, the need for faster-printed circuit board (PCB) assembly methods is more apparent than ever. This study aims to dev…
Environmental Engineering
Oil pollution on water surfaces remains a critical environmental challenge, with over 20 million liters of oil discharged into aquatic ecosystems each year. These spills endanger marine life…
Materials Science
The development of microfluidics is necessary for many reasons, especially in bio-medicine, where it would help to save time and resources such as the amount of chemical precursors as well a…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed disease among women, with 2.3 million new cases and 669,000 deaths identified in 2022 alone. Most studies on epigenetic diagnosis biomarke…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In this study, a new acoustic levitation prototype was developed in order to test novel PNP (pick-and-place) machine designs. This new method addresses the issues of conventional designs -th…
Chemistry
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a global threat for public health. The resistant forms of pathogenic microorganisms develop due to the uncontrolled use of antibiotics. So, the synthes…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
The use of UAVs has increased rapidly in the last decade. They are now implemented in various research operations and inspections. The main limitation of drones is their short flight time of…
Plant Sciences
Sulforaphane, a component of the cabbage family, fights inflammatory and infectious processes, shrinks the manifestation of lncRNAs in cancer cells and reduces their ability to form colonies…
Systems Software
During the early months of COVID-19, neither doctors nor patients knew how dangerous the virus was and how to best treat it. Because formal research took several months to complete, people d…
Chemistry
Research and detection of antiviral remedies, even alternative ones during the pandemic, is a current and global problem. In this context, we set out to investigate the antiviral potential o…
Materials Science
Nanomaterials development is of high interest for the progress in nanomedicine. The purpose of this project was to evaluate to what extent and in what quantities different types of nanoparti…
Environmental Engineering
Plastic today has become one of the most used materials in the world. From 1950 to 2018, more than 8 million tons of plastics were produced, of which 79% were discarded after use. Plastic pr…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
The overuse of substances with antibacterial and antifungal properties cause drugs to lose efficiency because of the resistance that microorganisms started to develop over time. We came up w…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Over the last years VoIP is constantly outperforming traditional mobile networks with more than one billion users in 2017. However, the voice quality is often affected by issues like noise,…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The issue of environmental pollution has become a hot issue in today's world. Nanotechnology offers advantages to improve existing environmental technologies, has three main capabilities tha…
Systems Software
Cyber security is a global problem. In 2016, more than 1.3 billion user accounts were stolen using different kind of cyber attacks like phishing, social engineering etc. Login and Password a…
Microbiology
The overuse of substances with antibacterial and antifungal properties cause drugs to lose their efficiency because of the resistance that microorganisms started to develop. By using the Jug…
Engineering Mechanics
All known external combustion engines are closed-cycle. Thus, they require coolers that complicate the construction, increase their price, and reduce their efficiency. To remove the above-me…
Twelve people are killed daily because of unexploded landmines and other ordnance left behind by the war. Tens of millions of square kilometers of land are inaccessible for economic use beca…
Cyber Security is a matter that influences both big companies and individuals. Current services and software products do provide the user security to a certain extent with the help of encryp…
Fourth Award
Nowadays, systems for hand gesture recognition become more and more required due to the replacement of 2D systems and the way of interacting with them by the new 3D and holographic technolog…
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…
Embedded Systems
C, being a statically typed language is much faster than Python, but is difficult to use in development. Python, being an interpreted language is much slower than C, but is very easy to lear…
Physics and Astronomy
In this project we come with an inovative method of combating fungal diseases of grapevines, which nowadays are treated with chemicals based on copper that is a heavy metal and can cause ser…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of the project was to build an Integrated Development Environment that gives blind, visually impaired or people suffering of Repetitive Strain Injuries that have no experience in…