2021 Winners

GRAND PRIZE

Self-Destructing Plastics via Embedded Enzymes
Aaron Hall, Chris DelRe, Ivan Jayapurna, and Ting Xu, Intropic Materials, Oakland, CA, USA

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY

How to Keep Drones Flying When a Motor Fails, without GPS
Sihao Sun, Giovanni Cioffi, Coen de Visser, and Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Honorable Mention – Aerospace & Defense Category

D3 – Control and Deorbit Spacecraft without Rockets
Dr. Riccardo Bevilacqua, Dr. Laurence Fineberg, Dr. Dave Guglielmo, Erik T. Long, Dr. Camilo Riano-Rios, and Nicolo Marcello Woodward, Orbotic Systems Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

Learning Extreme Flight
Elia Kaufmann and Antonio Loquercio, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Bio-inspired Multi-functional Ceramics for Aerospace Applications
Hamidreza Yazdani Sarvestani and Behnam Ashrafi, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal, Canada

Project Pr0be
Sebastian Bandycki, Piotr Kostek, Rafal Rotblum, and Janusz Dobrzanski, Haxtron, Gdynia, Poland

AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY

Afreecar E-kit: Provide Sustainable and Affordable Mobility and Power for All the World's People
Chris Borroni-Bird and Rich Saad, Afreecar LLC, Rochester Hills, MI, USA

Honorable Mention – Automotive/Transportation Category

Hairpin Motor Using Aluminum Hairpins
Michael Durack, Ultimate Transmissions, Saraburi, Thailand

HCCI Fickett-Jacobs Cycle Double Acting Internal PDE
Sky Huddleston and Roger Richard, Liberator LLC/Eternal Engines, Bourbon, MO, USA

3D Printing Boosts SiC Inverter Performance
Richard Gotch, Professor Peter Wilson, and Oliver Holt, University of Bath Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

SERS-Suspension Energy Recovery System
Aditya Deshpande, Saroja Siddamal, Amankumar Saha, and Vivek Kumar, KLE Technological University, Hubballi, Karnataka, India

CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN CATEGORY

Aira FreePower – Advanced Wireless Power
Jake Slatnick, Eric Goodchild, Simon McElrea, and Marc Rosenmayr, Aira Inc., Chandler, AZ, USA

Honorable Mention – Consumer Product Design Category

Xogo – Accessibility for Everyone
Ray Abel and Dalton Banks, Bansen Labs, Coraopolis, PA, USA

Vision X – Assistive Smart Glass for Blind People
Premnath K, Uxmint, Chennai, India

Float Thermometer – Baby Bottle Application
Scott Hines, Canton, MI, USA

Breakthrough Polyurethane for Comfort Applications
Yasmin Srivastava, Juan Carlos Medina, James Facello, Jessica Chang, Tang Yin, Gretchen Baier, Tom Fielitz, Christopher Thiede, Roy Gamboa, Heather Mikel, Michelle Tipps, and Charmain Surles, Dow Chemical Company; Wayne Celia, Cell Foam Solutions Inc., Lake Jackson, TX, USA

ELECTRONICS/SENSORS/IOT CATEGORY

Freetouch
Darren David, Suzanne Hitchcock, Joe Kotas, Josh Wagoner, Stephan Winokur, and Julie Yamato, Freetouch, San Francisco, CA, USA

Honorable Mention – Electronics/Sensors/IoT Category

2D Materials Origami: The Tiniest Nanochips for Future Computation
Dr. Manoj Tripathi and Frank Lee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; James McHugh, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK 

Early Warning Saves Lives
Halit Kaplan and Tarik Ozkul, FatigPro Sensor Co., Instanbul, Turkey

High Performance Silicone-based Material, Enabling Breakthrough Foldable Consumer Display Devices
Steven Kim, Johnny Park, Tae-Seung Lee, Youngno Lee, BK Park, Hugh Kim, Minji Jeong, Lucas Lee, and Jayden Cho, Dow Chemical Company, Gwanghyewon-myeon, Jincheon-gun, South Korea

Zero Energy Development
Niels Hokke, Suryansh Sharma, Sujay Narayana, R.R Venkatesha Prasad, and Josine van der Velde, Zero Energy Development B.V., Delft, The Netherlands  

MANUFACTURING/ROBOTICS/AUTOMATION CATEGORY

Electronics-Free Soft Walking Robot
Dylan Drotman, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Honorable Mention – Manufacturing/Robotics/Automation Category

Cosmic Scale: Bringing Muography to Industry
Luis Fernando Gomez Gonzalez, Alexandre Junqueira, and Erick Mascagni Ferdinando, Konker Labs, São Paulo, Brazil

The Armature Project
Jia-Xiang Cheng, Jin Teng Hu, Yu-Kuan Mo, Roberto Jacob Policar, Jolo Gerard Miel Tolentino, Prof. Wan Jung Chang, Prof. Ming-Che Chen, Prof. Yang-Kun Ou, and Prof. Aaron Raymond See, STUST, Tainan City, Taiwan

Solventless Silicone Release SYL-OFF™ SL 184 Coating – Effective Mist Reduction Enabling Maximum High Coating Speed Productivity
Na Li, Zhenbin Niu, Pierre Chevalier, Thomas Davidian, Alex Knott, Nathalie Gerard, Alexandros Manikis, Alberto Petrosino, Brennan Macmillan, Celine Vlemincq, and Xiaoyun Chen, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, USA

Mo – Wheelchair Combination
Vasilatos Ianis, Oradea, Romania

MEDICAL CATEGORY

Halo Speculum – Invented by a Female for the Female
Dr. Tamatha Fenster, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian; JJ Lees, Artisan Medical Devices; and Mitchell Tung, OneWorld Design & Manufacturing Group, Warren, NJ, USA

Honorable Mention – Medical Category

‘Smart’ Wearable Sensor for Continuous Monitoring of Wound Healing
Keith Stevenson, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology; Olja Simoska, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

First-in-Class Therapeutic Pain Drug Designed from Proteins
Samerender Nagam Hanumantharao, Derek Allen, and Paul Blum, Neurocarrus, Lincoln, NE, USA

LIMBER Unibody Prosthetic Leg
Luca De Vivo, Joshua Pelz, and Herb Barrack, LIMBER Prosthetics & Orthotics, La Mesa, CA, USA

POPSafe™ Tracheostomy Tube Sets – A Life Saving Device
Kay Fuller, Smart Bridge Medical Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES/FUTURE ENERGY CATEGORY

Multifunctional Bionanocomposite Fruit Coatings
Sylvia Jung, Nancy Cui, Neethu Pottackal, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Muhammad M. Rahman, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Honorable Mention – Sustainable Technologies/Future Energy Category

Thermionic Transistor
John Read and Daniel Sweeney, Space Charge LLC, San Diego, CA, USA

Aerodynamic Optimization of Wind Turbines
John Maris, Marivent Corp., Quebec, Canada

Creating a Better Tomorrow by Repurposing Coal: Converting Coal & Waste into Renewable Hydrogen
PD Madden, Eco Energy International LLC, Tustin, CA, USA

Recycling of Lithium Ion Electrodes
Donna Baek, Tedd Lister, and Luis Diaz Aldana, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA

TOP TEN MOST POPULAR ENTRIES

Educational Toy: The Portable Tree J-1
Jonar Cubillan, Patrick Morton, Richard Marquez, Mercylino Quinto, Humberto Linares, Yanmiver Jiménez, and Jose Cubillan, 3JC Technologies, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Universal Body Enhancement Spaceship Unit
Rick Crammond, Keshe Foundation Canada, Sooke, British Columbia, Canada

SAHIYOG – Innovative Bed Design
Ritesh Kumar, Sumit Ranjan, and Aman Prasad, BIT SINDRI DHANBAD, Dhanbad, India

India's First Smart Self-Sterilizing N100 Face Mask for Covid-19 Protection
Dr Rahul Gore, Sameet Raut, Utkarsha Ankalkhope, Dr Prveen Bidare, Pranit Watve, Pallavi Gore, Resha Raut, Jyoti Bidare, and Isha Anurag, Boriwali, Mumbai, India

Robust Road Lane Detection using Studs Based Night Image
Muhammad Shahzad, Dr. Irfan Ullah, and Wajid Khan, Abasyn University Peshawar KPK, Charsadda, Pakistan

Mini Spying Wireless Car
Usman Umar Dagona, Dagona Science and Technical F, Gashua , Nigeria

HydroDry – A Glove-based Dry Iontophoresis Device
Chirag Satapathy and Hrishikesh Gokhale, VIT Vellore, Bangalore, India

Portable Treatment and Desalination Module
Henrique Martins, Yara, Patrocínio, Brazil

Retrofitting Old Bicycles into Electric Bikes for Rental Services
Neeraj Balani, Mani Sanguri, and Saurabh Singh, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India

Design and Analysis of a Possible Concept of the Lunar Lander's Landing System
Anurag Talekar, Karan Jethwa, Ajinkya Dabholkar, and Ajinkya Thombe, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India