The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.

3D Printing Technology of the Future

A New Architecture for Safe Lithium-Ion Batteries

A Safer Football Helmet to Save the Brain

A Smart Knee Implant Using Triboelectric Energy Harvesters

A.T.O.M - Autonomous Water Monitoring and Alerting System

Acoustic Transducer Diaphragm - Boxless, Omnidirectional, Full-Range

Additive Manufacturing Evaporative Casting

AI Oculur

AirBOS-SR: Visualizing Supersonic Shock Waves with Advanced Imaging Techniques

Apparatus and Method for Donning Hygienic Gloves

Aria

Astropharmacy

Augmented Reality Monitoring System for Aircraft Wiring Maintenance

Autonomous Greenhouse for Urban Settings

AweSEM: Increasing Access to High-Resolution Imaging with a Low-Cost Scanning Electron Microscope

Beachill

Beddingo - The First Reinvention of Sheets in 100 Years

Biomimetic 3D-Printed Scaffolds for Spinal Cord Injury Repair

Body-on-a-Chip

Braille II

Camless Glide Valve Engine Technology

Cervical Stabilization Device (CSD)

Click Energy

Cone Solar Panel

Conrodless Ultra-Low-Vibration Engine Using Z Mechanism

Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) Prevention

Create Cleaner Air in the Future: A Newly Designed Method for Efficient Hg Removal in Coal Combustion Flue Gas

Designing Composite Finger and Foot Supports to Correct Deformity

Dual Fastener Manipulation Device - Patented Invention (US 10,239,191 B2)

Eco-friendly, Highly Effective Bioremediation of Persistent Environmental Pollutants

Energy-efficient "Greenest" Air Conditioner that Cools without Warming the Planet

Engineering a Plastic-Eating Enzyme

eShepherd

Exponential Engine

Eye of Horus: Open Source Eye Tracking System

FastenPro

Fiberless 5G Backhaul

Flit Lightweight Folding Ebike - Helping Urban Commuters to Free Their Journey and Reclaim Their City

Genomtec ID - Mobile Genetic Laboratory

Get-A-Load-On

Gigabot X - Printing with Pellets

HCS Shower Cabin

High-Speed Joining of Metal to Plastics with the HPCI® Joining Gun

HP Recycled Satin Canvas

Hybrid Single Shot Manufacturing of 3D Sandwich Structures

Hyperfine Interpolated Range Finding

iAED - Life Saving Phone

Impregnated Epoxy Actuators Paired With a Sparse-Array Sensor Grid for Strain Detection of Composite Barely Visible Damage

Kitchen Appliance Recovered Energy System (KARES)

Kiwi™ - Monitor What was Previously Impossible

Laminated Resin Printing: A New Rapid Prototyping Technology for Printing the Very Small

Large Area Silicon Electronics

Lighter by Replacing Aluminum with Iron

Livox

MANT-A

MariTime: An Autonomous Amphibious Rover that Uses Robotics to Efficiently Collect Waste in Coastal Ecosystems

Microbarcodes for Injection Molding

MicroEVAP™: Concentrating Industry's Wastewater for a Sustainable Future

Monitoring of the Central Blood Pressure Waveform Via a Conformal Ultrasonic Device

Neighborhood Resilience Centers: How to Improve Response to Natural Disasters and Cyber Attacks

Non-invasive Neurostimulator to Mitigate Chronic Vertigo

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detector

OnTrack Rehabilitation: Safer, Faster Concussion Recovery

Pipette-Tip ELISA

Preemptive Autonomous Mobile Device Loss or Theft Prevention

Product Anti-Counterfeiting System

Puncture-Healing Engineered Polymer Blends

Reversible Magnetic Transmission for Electric Vehicles

ROSES (RObotic System for Endovascular Surgery)

Saving Lives with New AI Human Vision for Machines

Scalable Sensor Network for Indoor Air Quality

Self-healable Touch Display Screens

Self-Tuning Compact Vibration Damper

Shower Belt

Simple, Cost-effective Sensor for Early Detection of Battery Faults

Small Multi-Purpose Advanced Reconfigurable Technology (SMART)

Smart Beat

Smart Multi-Function Skin Monitoring Wearable System

SolAlert: Solar Intruder Alert with Text Messaging System

Solar Syngas Reactor: Photothermal CO₂ Conversion by Ethane

SOLID STATE Batteries: Better, Faster, Cheaper Using Plastic Injection Molding Technology

Sorbent Polymer Extraction and Remediation System (SPEARS) for the Green Remediation of Impacted Sediments

Swarm 3D Printing and Assembly

Terabit - Portable Genetic Analyzer for Crop Protection

The Acrobattery: DIY Battery Pack Using Second Life Cells

The Drone of the Future - Compact and Highly Efficient

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly

The IFS: Learning Coding Without Screens From the Age of Three

The ULiSSES™ Device for Organ and Limb Preservation

The World's First Standalone AC (Alternating Current) Battery

Thought-Controlled, Noninvasive Sleeve for Overcoming Hand Paralysis

Touch-Free and Continuous Health Monitoring Using Radar Technology

Transforming Surgery with Augmented Reality

Ultra-Compact Very Low Frequency (VLF) Communication Systems for Underground, Underwater, and Hypersonic Flight

Upcycling Technology Provides Solution to Failing Recycling Infrastructure

UV-C Sanitizing Device

VitalWellness Platform for Population Health Management

Wave2O - Clean Water From Ocean Waves

Write Once Read Forever Archival Data Storage

Zero-Effort Patient Transfer

For Information Contact:
Debbie Rothwell
Director of Marketing
Tech Briefs Media Group
212-490-3999
www.createthefuturecontest.com
March 2, 2018

Calling all Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and Students from across the Globe

Design Contest Open for Entries $20,000 Grand Prize

New York, NY – The “Create the Future” Design Contest is now open for submissions and runs through July 2, 2018. The world’s premier engineering design competition, the annual contest brings together engineers, entrepreneurs, and students to find solutions that benefit society and the economy; along with the chance to win a cash prize of $20,000 USD.  

Now in its 15th year, the “Create the Future” Design Contest has helped stimulate and reward engineering innovation and has brought attention to thousands of product designs that increase the quality of life, improve healthcare, and help to reduce dependence on non-renewable energy sources. COMSOL and Mouser Electronics are the principal sponsors of the contest, produced by Tech Briefs Media Group, an SAE International Company.

“The Create the Future Design Contest celebrates the creators behind the technologies that will shape our tomorrow. We are honored to support the next generation of innovators and look forward to this year's submissions." said Valerio Marra, Marketing Director, COMSOL, Inc. 

"Fostering technical innovation is an investment in the future that will benefit everyone," said Kevin Hess, Mouser Electronics Senior Vice President of Marketing. "As a forward-looking company, Mouser is proud to have the continuing opportunity to support this important event for engineers and students around the world."

Contestants can enter for free, either as an individual or as a team. An independent panel of industry professionals will judge the entries. Web site visitors are invited to vote for their favorite entry. For more information on the official contest rules, click here. 

About COMSOL
COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities. Its COMSOL Multiphysics® product is an integrated software environment for creating physics-based models and simulation apps. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electrical, mechanical, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulations with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market. With the COMSOL Server™ product, users can deploy custom simulation apps throughout their organizations. For more information, click here.

About Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on rapid New Product Introductions from its manufacturing partners for electronic design engineers and buyers. The global distributor's website, Mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 5 million products from over 700 manufacturers. Mouser offers 22 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 600,000 customers in 170 countries from its 750,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, click here.

For Information Contact:
Debbie Rothwell
Director of Marketing
Tech Briefs Media Group
212-490-3999
www.createthefuturecontest.com
March 1, 2017

Engineers and Students from across the World Compete to Build a Brighter Future 

Engineering Innovation Award: $20,000 Grand Prize

New York, NY – The 15th annual “Create the Future” Design Contest is now open for submissions and runs through July 1, 2017. Contestants are asked to submit innovative product design ideas that benefit society and the economy for the opportunity to receive global recognition and win a cash prize of $20,000 USD.

The “Create the Future” Design Contest has helped stimulate and reward engineering innovation, and has brought attention to product designs that increase the quality of life, improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare, and help to reduce dependence on non-renewable energy sources. 

The contest's principal sponsors are COMSOL and Mouser Electronics with Analog Devices and Intel as supporting sponsors. “Whether it's a startup or a big corporation, innovative ideas and new products are the pillars that make businesses grow,” said Bernt Nilsson, Senior VP of Marketing with COMSOL, Inc. “The Create the Future Design Contest inspires innovators to bring their products to market and gain recognition worldwide.”

"Fostering technical innovation has always been a major part of our mission at Mouser,” said Kevin Hess, Mouser Electronics Senior Vice President of Marketing. “We are very excited to again participate in this important event for engineers and students around the world.”

The annual event has attracted more than 12,000 product design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs, and students worldwide from more than 100 countries. Previous grand prize winning entries include a hybrid electric technology for semi-trailers that reduces fuel costs and emissions; a non-surgical circulatory support device for the treatment of chronic heart failure; a computerized construction method that rapidly 3D prints large-scale structures directly from architectural CAD models; and an economical, rapid screening device that prevents foodborne illness. 

This year’s categories include:  Consumer Products, Electronics /Sensors/IoT, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive/Transportation, Machinery/Automation/ Robotics (sponsored by Maplesoft), Medical (sponsored by Schneider Electric), and Sustainable Technologies. In addition to product concepts, designs for products that have been introduced to the market within the past 12 months are eligible. 

Contestants can enter for free, and either as an individual or as a team. An independent industry panel will judge the entries. Web site visitors are invited to vote for their favorite entry. For more information on the official contest rules, go to www.createthefuturecontest.com.

The contest is produced and owned by Tech Briefs Media Group, an SAE International Company.

About COMSOL
COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities. Its COMSOL Multiphysics® product is an integrated software environment for creating physics-based models and simulation apps. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulations with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market. Simulation experts rely on the COMSOL Server™ product to deploy apps to their design teams, manufacturing departments, test laboratories, and customers throughout the world. Founded in 1986, COMSOL employs more than 480 people in 21 offices worldwide and extends its reach with a network of distributors. For more information, click here.

About Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Mouser is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on rapid New Product Introductions from its manufacturing partners for electronic design engineers and buyers. The global distributor’s website, Mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 4 million products from over 600 manufacturers. Mouser offers 22 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 500,000 customers in 170 countries from its 750,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, click here.

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