Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Multicopters have a wide range of applications from search and rescue to package delivery and medical support. Although growing in popularity, they are not used yet on an industrial scale fo…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
Animal Sciences
Ranchers want to know what their cows are doing in the day. To know what their cows do, they could put GPS collars on the cows and analyze the data. One of the major reasons they may want to…
Physics and Astronomy
Submersion causes the highest mortality rate of all vehicular accidents. These might be caused by crashing into a water body or by road flooding. Cars normally sink very fast, giving occupan…
Engineering Mechanics
In my project, I looked into different ways of recycling in Hawaii. Due to the fact that Hawaii has very limited landfill space, any form of recycling would have a large impact on the local…
Systems Software
The incidence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, continues to rise due to ignorance regarding personal risk of melanoma development and regarding skin protection. I created a mo…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Over 1/3 of the world's crops are pollinated by honey bees. Without them, many wildflowers and trees won't get the pollination they need, and agricultural expenses will skyrocket. Over the p…
Translational Medical Science
In the United States, 23,830 new primary malignant tumors of the brain and central nervous system (CNS) are expected to be diagnosed in 2018, according to the Central Brain Tumor Registry of…
Physics and Astronomy
Craters are categorized as primary or secondary. Primary craters are created by the initial impact of interplanetary debris and secondary craters are created by the ejecta from that primary…
Animal Sciences
Both honey bees and bumble bees are frequently used as pollinators for crops around the world. Bumble bees are active at lower temperatures and have smaller hives, increasing their use over…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I created the "Family Relationship Questionnaire"(FRQ) to categorize participants as sex perspective (SP) "rigid" or SP "flexible". Rigid participants were those who could not see themselves…
Animal Sciences
Understanding vocal mothering in sheep is vital to increase lamb survival rates and farm efficiency. Ewes have been observed to vocalize differently before and after giving birth. It is conj…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing usage of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer and antibacterial products without regulation raises concerns about their environmental toxicity. Silver nanospheres have bee…
Environmental Engineering
In the 1900’s silver was used extensively as an antimicrobial agent. When antibiotics were developed they became very popular and silver as an anti-bactericide decreased (Alexander, 2009). T…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
A systematic design and analysis process was conducted for a closed wing airplane configuration. A closed wing configuration consists of two staggered wings connected at the tips. The closed…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are a more renewable, cost efficient, and a more effortless form of energy production. MFC take advantage of specific ion producing exoelectrogenic bacteria (G.sul…
Physics and Astronomy
In this study, the first chromium aluminum bismuthate is synthesized with a formula of CrAl3Bi2O9 as an orthorhombic single crystal with interesting magnetic properties and potential thermoe…
Biomedical Engineering
When citrate ligands-capped gold nanoparticles are mixed with a sample of positively charged proteins at pH 7, a protein corona is formed on the nanoparticle surface due to electrostatic ads…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Currently, the only sinkhole detection technique is by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), which is both costly and inefficient. This project aims to provide more efficient sin…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project was to develop a product that could provide basic communication services in the days after a natural disaster. The product needed to be easily assembled by an unt…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Around the world, sleep deprivation causes employees to be less efficient, accident prone, and costs companies profit. This occurs because when people are sleepy they don't communicate well…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastic pollution is a global issue threatening the health of marine and land ecosystems. Smaller "microplastics" (<5mm) are particularly problematic as they can be consumed by marine creatu…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Myocardial Infraction Events (Heart Attacks) are cardiac emergencies that restrict blood flow through coronary arteries to major cardiac muscle tissue. Prolonged blood demand deficiency to t…
Biomedical Engineering
First Award
In order to determine corrective eyeglass prescription, large and expensive phoropters, devices which use precisely machined lenses to subjectively determine the prescription providing the c…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Preventing death from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) holds great importance for the medical and public community worldwide. 326,000 people each year in the U.S. alone are afflicted and 90% do n…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, 38,000 children with severe to profound hearing loss in the United States have received a cochlear implant.…
Systems Software
This project seeks to implement efficient routines for computing fractals based off of escaping sets, covering aspects such as algorithmic complexity and speed, network-based data transfer,…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
One in ten people in the world fall ill from foodborne pathogens each year. Of these, an estimated 420,000 die. Non-typhoidal salmonella is one of the most common types of bacteria responsib…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People in many countries across the world depend on agriculture as a source of sustainability. Agriculture plays a huge part in the world economy so much that agriculture is a 2.4 trillion d…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
With clean water being a requirement for human life, it’s appalling 660 million people lack access to it. Those without access must travel an average of 3.7 miles carrying 20 L of water on t…