Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous vehicle systems have hit public roads, but they remain way to expensive for common consumers. This project aimed to find alternative ways to make autonomous vehicle systems more c…
Environmental Engineering
Radon is a radioactive gas that emerges from Earth’s surface. A product of the radioactive decay of Uranium, radon and its daughters present a serious health hazard that is often neglected.…
Mathematics
First Award
This paper presents the solution to the open problem of the fine classification of second minimal odd periodic orbits of continuous endomorphisms on the real line. It is rigorously proven th…
Biomedical Engineering
Insulin Dependent Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects over 200 million people worldwide. Diabetic patients keep this disease under control by externally administrating Insulin hormo…
Physics and Astronomy
The quantum entanglement phenomenon regarding the decay of the spin-singlet state of positronium has experimental results revealing quantitative evidence to support the entanglement of the a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) where systems learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention. Classification algorit…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Small scale farms are responsible for producing 70% of food worldwide. Of this food produced a large amount is stored in structures called silos. Silos are agricultural containment vessels o…
Engineering Mechanics
23% of all adults in the US are affected by arthritis which is the stiffening and inflammation of joints. As it stands right now, arthritis is incurable; the only form of “healing” comes fro…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Military and rescue teams work in dangerous environments during disasters. My goal is to develop an intelligent search and rescue system based on multi-spectral sensing to operate in dangero…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: To determine the effects of location, weather, and time of year on small and large air particles in a quantitative analysis. Procedure: Download Dylos software to record data with l…
Materials Science
The effects of adatom-adatom repulsive interactions on nucleation and growth of nanoclusters have been studied using Kinetic Monte Carlo computer simulations. The dependence of nanocluster d…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to determine if the strength of the egg, thickness of shell, and amount of protein in the egg is directly related to the month of the year. Also, to determine…
Biochemistry
Second Award
In hypoxic conditions tumor cells have evolved to alleviate their intracellular acidity with the overexpression of the human Carbonic Anhydrase IX isozyme (CA IX) (Haiden). As a result, the…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Though insulin pumps do allow better blood glucose control for diabetics, they are extremely expensive, ranging from more than $6,000 to $10,000 for the pump itself, and are not covered by i…
Biomedical Engineering
Urea cycle disorder (UCD) is a genetic disorder that affects 1 out of 35,000 births in the United States and has a 24% mortality neonatal rate. UCD is characterized by hyperammonemia, which…
Embedded Systems
Hurricane Harvey catastrophically flooded Houston in August 2017, followed a month later by Hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico. Cell phone service, telephone landlines, internet ser…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
In organic agricultural communities, the soil is contaminated with chemical runoff from Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium (NPK) fertilizer ions that diffuse from neighboring farms. These i…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mood and anxiety disorders, such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), affect one out of every six people in their lifetime and over 350 million people per year. Postmortem human brain studies…
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to expand the usefulness of construction 3D printing through exploring and testing alternative materials. By expanding upon construction 3D printing, this projec…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) significantly reduces memory, communication, focus, and reasoning skills in elderly individuals. There is no known cure with progressive deterioration. Early identif…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects the lives of millions of people through its life-altering complications. Worldwide, 3.4 million people die of diabetes annually. It is known that T2DM…
Energy: Chemical
Biodigesters are America’s next generation of green energy. The purpose of this project was to test how much energy is produced from different biogases created from different biomasses. The…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Galactosemia is a life-threatening genetic disease in which patients cannot metabolize galactose, a sugar found abundantly in milk, fruits, and vegetables. As a result, galactose builds up t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
This project targets Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease second to Malaria in economic effect in developing countries. Doctors diagnose Schistosomiasis by using microscopes to count the num…
Systems Software
Organ transplantation and efficient ways to allocate organs to recipients with the greatest need has been highly debated. Optimizing the system of organ allocation could mean shorter wait-ti…
Physics and Astronomy
The spectral type of a star indicates the star temperature and is associated with other important physical characteristics of a star such as mass, diameter and color. Current methods used to…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Periodontitis, also referred to as periodontal disease, affects 42.7% (64 million) of the population in the United States. Periodontitis is a gingival infection resulting in damage to the so…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Protein folding and computational origami are gradually becoming revolutionary fields. With our ability to computationally analyze minuscule biological structures, we are making significant…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
There are a wide variety of Beta-globin related disorders including sickle cell disease and Beta-thalassemia. There are five main genes in the Beta-globin locus: epsilon, gamma two, gamma on…
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this research is to test various researcher-designed two/three dimensional wing models with varying surface areas using an oscillating air column apparatus for determination o…