Materials Science
Importance: The most common knee injury is a torn meniscus, affecting 65% of all adults and contact-sports athletes. The meniscus is the primary cartilage in the knee, stabilizing over 85% o…
Embedded Systems
Numerous studies estimate that over 150,000 police-reported accidents in the United States annually are caused by drowsy and distracted driving, leading to 400,000 injuries and over 4,000 de…
Materials Science
Shape Memory Polymers (SMP) are a special class of materials that have the ability to return from a deformed state to its original shape when induced by an external stimulus, such as tempera…
Physics and Astronomy
The ever increasing demand for Big Data processing, ubiquitous in almost all fields of science, has become exceedingly resource intensive for endeavors such as CERN and LIGO. CERN alone prod…
Systems Software
As a society, we use the cloud to accomplish many things. Whenever we get directions from a GPS, that software is an example of a cloud technology. Even though the use of the cloud is an eve…
Mathematics
Certain environmental, social, and genetic factors related to socioeconomic status can significantly impact a person's health. The purpose of this experiment is to analyze how air quality, e…
Physics and Astronomy
In automated exoplanet classification utilizing transit photometry data and deep learning, there is a disparity in the performance and training data of TESS models compared to Kepler models.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Air pollution is the single greatest environmental health threat, according to the WHO, and disproportionately impacts developing nations, which suffer 90% of the 5 million premature deaths…
Physics and Astronomy
Jet tagging is a classification problem in high-energy physics experiments that aims to identify the collimated sprays of subatomic particles, jets, from particle collisions and ‘tag’ them t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The World Health Organization estimates that a staggering 2.2 billion individuals worldwide suffer from vision impairments, which drastically limit independence and quality of daily life. Al…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Gripper are robotic hands that are usually made to simulate the things human hands can do. Many modern-day grippers focus on in-hand manipulation and the ability to adapt to objects of diffe…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Problem: Wheeled robotics research and commercial application development is inhibited by the lack of a powerful, durable, and accessible robotics platform that can operate omnidirectionally…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Over 50 million Americans have an Autoimmune Disease (AD). Diagnosis of symptoms is challenging and the available treatments are invasive and costly. As chronic diseases, ADs often significa…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is the deadliest urological disease in the world, accounting for more than 200,000 deaths annually. Detection before metastasis can improve 5-year survival rates d…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Surface electromyography (sEMG) and mechanomyogram (MMG) signals are two prominent modalities in gesture recognition, increasingly employed in medical applications. These signals can be capt…
Embedded Systems
The realm of small deep-space satellites is both a developing and exciting sector in engineering. The accessibility that comes with small format satellites(CubeSats) is unparalleled in the s…
Systems Software
Second Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks destroy billions of dollars every year in lost data and productivity at the indi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
This project developed a leader-wingman drone swarm that can autonomously detect and track objects of interest (OOI). The leader drone is a custom-built X500 quadcopter equipped with a Jetso…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Arsenic accumulation in rice is becoming increasingly problematic, threatening the health of over 150 million people globally. This project aims to use rhizoremediation with rice plants tran…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As the world pivots away from fossil fuels, the challenge becomes to satisfy the world's energy needs with intermittent zero-carbon sources such as wind and solar energy. In order to balance…
Biomedical Engineering
Visually impaired individuals need a low-cost assistive aid that can provide a new form of mobility and navigation. Currently, the blind rely on canes, guide dogs, and other tools to navigat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The goal of this project is to develop an automatic American Sign Language (ASL) production system that generates high-quality ASL captions for multimedia content, making it accessible to th…
Systems Software
Third Award
Medical imaging holds profound value in disease diagnosis for millions worldwide. However, studies show that physician imaging orders may frequently be inappropriate (26% of cases) for the c…
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to create a working program that was capable of challenging someone to a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. I coded the basic A.I. using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. O…
Plant Sciences
A dead zone is an area in a body of water in which oxygen has been depleted to an extreme. These zones are caused by algae blooms which is an immense growth of algae. Algae blocks sunlight w…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to analyze the anatomy of the human hand and translate its mobility into a functional robotic hand (Alice) with the ability to translate English into American…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
More than seventy conditions are attributed to oxidative stress, including neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and chronic pathological processes. The exposure of DNA demethylation by the in…
Animal Sciences
Skin allergies in dogs are common, leading to discomfort. Medications used to treat allergies are expensive, not always working. To combat this problem, the researcher believes an Aloe Vera…
Mathematics
Bipolar Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by its traits of mood swings/manic episodes. It consists of two varieties, Bipolar One and Bipolar Two, One displaying full Manic…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over the past decades, robotics has become an increasingly popular method to engage students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math(STEM). However, due to the lack of af…