Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars is an electrolysis system, which produces a dangerous byproduct of hydrogen and relies on water which is scarce in space. Alternativ…
Materials Science
Lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries power almost all rechargeable devices, however, as the demand for energy storage exponentially increases, the commercially available Li-ion technology is provi…
Mathematics
Signed graphs are commonly used in social networks to model relationships, and Kirchhoff-type conservation laws can be applied to signed networks to simulate the diffusion of information or…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the USA, 85% of our landfill content is compostable, recyclable, or otherwise reusable; on a global scale, 91% of plastics aren’t recycled, instead ending up in landfills and harming the…
Physics and Astronomy
Harmony and dissonance are two general classifications of sound heard when listening to musical chords. Except for electronically generated pure tones, every note has overtones which are fai…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The current methods for drug development against a target disease are not cost-effective. The process is not efficient and has a high failure rate. It can take up to 12 years to design, crea…
Biomedical Engineering
Malfunctions in the heart, known as Arrhythmia, are generally diagnosed with event monitors like the Holter monitor. However, the Holter diagnostics process has some inefficiencies that are…
Embedded Systems
Nuclear energy is a source that can pose significant risks and hazards, therefore, mitigating the risks of radiation is just as important as the research on its application. This project pre…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
The knee joint strength of 43 turkeys, 44 chickens, and 37 guinea fowl was studied by recording various musculoskeletal measurements of the leg, as well as the force required to luxate the k…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Every summer, children and pets suffer needless deaths because they are unintentionally left in hot cars. Young children are placed in the back seat and are easily forgotten. My project prov…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pisaster ochraceus is an integral component of rocky intertidal ecosystems. As a keystone species (Gashler, 2014), it has the ability to completely transform environments, controlling mussel…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Sensors empower the modern world as we know it: from automobilism to weather forecasts to aviation to temperature controlled homes. Some of these applications require precision geospatial in…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Simulations run on quantum computers are efficient tools to capture the quantum properties of fundamental particles more effectively than classical computers in high energy physics (HEP) sim…
Physics and Astronomy
Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) have not yet been extensively studied using radio telescopes, and so there is a lack of knowledge regarding their emissions and locations. Studying neutron sta…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Single use plastics are increasingly common in society, with waste from bottles, packaging, and containers filling up landfills and damaging ecosystems worldwide. At the same time, 3D printi…
Environmental Engineering
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning coal for industrial and energy purposes account for a sizable portion of the United States total CO2 emissions. Commercially viable CO2 sequestrat…
Materials Science
Due to the manufacturing of single-use plastic on the rise, we made it our goal to find a safer, bioplastic substitute, to lessen plastic’s negative impacts on the environment. After two yea…
Plant Sciences
The process investigated in this project is the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and its effect on plant growth. Plant growth was taken by measuring height, biomass, amount of flower…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to investigate the relationship between features such as hospital size, hospital location, and, primarily, regional income, and hospital pricing. Data were ob…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Studies have suggested that increased digital cooperation can lead to increased real life collaboration. This Video Game Reward System study was created to test cooperation between participa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder impacting over 65 million people globally. Each year, >100000 patients die from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), many from fatal falls. A rel…
Embedded Systems
Over the next 30 years, the United Nations is expecting the world’s population to increase by 2 billion people, from the current 7.7 billion, to 9.7 billion by the year 2050. Consequently, m…
Animal Sciences
In 2017, the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences journal linked ferromagnetic material in bees’ (Apis mellifera) abdomens to magneto-reception and bees’ ability to naviga…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty recognizing and comprehending emotions from others’ facial expressions. This inhibits their development of empathy and affects thei…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial intelligence has been used to identify cancer types with high accuracy, but despite this, we see increased death rates in cancer. Even though cancer is a complex and extremely het…
Materials Science
Spider silk is an outstandingly capable biomaterial. However, due to the territorial and cannibalistic habits of spiders, massive domestication of them is unachievable. Thus, recombinant spi…
Mathematics
In the abelian sandpile model, recurrent chip configurations are of interest as they are a natural choice of coset representatives under the quotient of the reduced Laplacian. We investigate…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Melody has always been the quintessential focus of musicological analysis, and its different intervallic structures are related to the listener’s psychological expectancy according to the Im…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Synesthesia is a condition in which a stimulation of one sense causes a response in another sense. This study focused on chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia where affected people visualize…
Engineering Mechanics
Throughout the past decade, significant aerospace research has focused on bending the cost curve of space exploration through the development of reusable boosters. However, the investments i…