GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Invisible Glass
Charles T. Black, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA; Andreas C. Liapis, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA, USA; Atikur Rahman, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY WINNER
Detecting Plastic Landmines
Jasper Baur, William Frazer, Tim deSmet, and Alex Nikulin, Binghamton, NY, USA
Honorable Mention – Aerospace & Defense Category
ABA Power
Jonathan Slocum, ABA Power, Bow, New Hampshire, USA
VForce® Green Clean Game Changing Technology
John Clark, Gamechanger Technologies Pty L, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Pelican: A New Approach to Fueling Space Exploration
Alex Dworzanczyk, Huntsville, AL, USA
Composite Elastic Skins for Shape-Changing Structures
Christopher M. Cagle and Robin W. Schlecht, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY WINNER
ISCAD - Electrical Drive with 0% Rare Earths, 25% Higher Driving Range, and 100% Safety
Adrian Patzak, Florian Bachheibl, Lena Honsberg, and team, VOLABO GmbH, Ottobrunn, Land Bayern, Germany
Honorable Mention – Automotive/Transportation Category
Smart Lightweighting of Cars with 200kg
Tim Vorage, DSM, Heerlen, Limburg, The Netherlands
Automotive Stampings: Stronger than Titanium, Lighter than Aluminum to Make Vehicles >100lbs Lighter
Gary Cola, Flash Bainite, Washington, MI, USA
Streamliners Incorporated Miniskirt: Aerodynamic Fuel Savings for All Types of Semi Trailers
Richard Himmelmann, Streamliners Inc., Beloit, WI, USA
FuelBOX : Smart and Connected Fuel Quality Sensor
Alain Lunati, Jean François Mascaro, Audrey Guerin, Xavier Capron, Marielle Chauvel, Cédric Puerto, Géraldine Frankidjian, Thierry Gergaud, Nathalie Almakdessi, and Nicolas Richard, SP3H, Paca, France
CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY WINNER
Aluminum Powered Electricity Generation
Peter Godart and Jason Fischman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Honorable Mention – Consumer Products Category
Box-less, Omnidirectional and Full-Range Speaker
John Gaudreault, Planot LLC, Omaha, NE, USA
Transparent Armored Building Blocks for a New World View
George Sturmon, Joshua Medling, Susan Schmidt, and Glenn Harris, Bleeding Edge EnSys LLC, Sullivan, MO, USA
Graphene Based Inks for Printed Electronics
Kaustubh Agrawal, Chhattisgarh, India
Vara: Revolutionary Firearm Safety
Timothy Oh, Christine Tate, and Jorel Lalicki, Clifton Park, NY, USA
ELECTRONICS/SENSORS/IoT CATEGORY WINNER
Future Antenna Miniaturization Mechanism: Magnetoelectric Antennas
Hwaider Lin and Nian-Xiang Sun, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Honorable Mention – Electronics/Sensors/IoT Category
U-decipher Device for the Speech Impaired
Chidvilas Putta, DabEndue, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Melni Connectors
Mark Melni, Cameron Williams, and Eric Smallwood, Melni LLC, Twin Falls, ID, USA
An Automated System for Printing of Nano and Microscale Electronics and Sensors
Ahmed Busnaina, Nano OPS, Inc. and Northeastern University; Krassy Petkov, Milara Inc., Newton, MA, USA
Ultra-Low Power Analog-to-Digital Converter with Nano-electromechanical Relays
Ren Li and Hossein Fariborzi, KAUST, Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
ROBOTICS/AUTOMATION/MANUFACTURING CATEGORY WINNER
Don't Melt. MELD.™
Nanci Hardwick, MELD Manufacturing Corp., Christiansburg, VA, USA
Honorable Mention – Robotics/Automation/Manufacturing Category
Origami Steel Method
Rob Wendt, Origami Steel Inc., Hebron, NH, USA
Augmented Associate: Wearable Embedded Sensors for Future Manual Assembly
Matthew Krugh, Clemson University, Greenville, SC, USA
RollnCoat: Roll-to-Roll Hybrid Plasma Modular Coating System for High-Performance Thermal Control Films
Der-Jun Jan, Cheng-Chang Hsieh, Wen-Fa Tsai, Jin-Yu Wu, Ching-Pei Tseng, Chia-Cheng Lee, En-Shih Chen, Tzong-Daw Wu, Deng-Lain Lin, Jiun-Shen Chen, Ming-Chung Yang, Po-Wen Chen, Yung-Ching Liu, and Min-Chuan Wang, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taoyuan, Taiwan
High Reynolds Number Nanofiber Production Technique
John Rawlins and Jinhee Kang, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
MEDICAL CATEGORY WINNER
Implantable Sensor Technology Platform for Advanced Prosthetic Control
Alanie Atyabi, Brian Dearden, Dave Brown, Dave Melbye, Dianna Han, Ed Hillery, Emil Istoc, Greg Golamirians, Harshit Suri, Jaime Gutierrez, Joseph Calderon, Justin Loo, Mike Perrin, Patrick Nercessian, Sam Bowman, Sam Yang, Taunyia Woolfolk, Valma Klein, and Yesenia Acevedo, The Alfred Mann Foundation, Valencia, CA, USA
Honorable Mention – Medical Category
Stretchable Electronics for Stroke Recovery
Peter KunHyuck Lee, John A. Rogers, Steve Xu, and Xiaoyue Ni, Rogers Research Group, Evanston, IL, USA
SurgiBox: The Operating Room in a Backpack
Dr. Debbie Teodorescu MD/MEng, Sashidhar Jonnalagedda MS, Stephen Okajima MS, Prof. Mike Teodorescu, Dr. Suzanne Van Wijck MD, and Dr. Robert Smalley MD, SurgiBox, Cambridge, MA, USA
A Smart Point of Care Human Blood Analysis Device
Dr. Chung-Yan Koh, Sandia National Laboratories; Osmond Bullen, Globalhealthusa, Galloway, NJ, USA
Braiding Technology Based Stent Concept for Endoluminal Usage in Coronary Bifurcations
Marielies Becker, Fraunhofer TFK, Münchberg, Bavaria, Germany
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES CATEGORY WINNER
Aerogels from Environmental Wastes for Novel Engineering Applications
Associate Prof. Hai Minh Duong and Prof. Nhan Phan-Thien, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Honorable Mention – Sustainable Technologies Category
Revolutionary, Eco-friendly and Non-toxic Glueless Bonding Technology to Replace Environmentally Challenging Adhesives
Espen Hvidsten Dahl, Mikkel Kongsfelt, Michael Kristensen, Mie Lillethorup, Stefan Urth Nielsen, and Bjørn Schytz Bruun, RadiSurf ApS, Arhus, Denmark
Phononic Vibes
Luca D'Alessandro, Giovanni Capellari, and Stefano Caverni, Phononic Vibes, Milan, Italy
Eggxellent Plastic
Sylvia Jung, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR)
Mark G. Ballin and David J. Wing, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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Luggage Bot
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