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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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2017 Entries
>> All
>> Aerospace & Defense
>> Automotive/Transportation
>> Consumer Products
>> Electronics/Sensors/IoT
>> Machinery/Automation/Robotics
>> Medical
>> Sustainable Technologies
2017 Participants
2017 Results
| Malath Arar Staff Engineer General Electric Company Lynn, MA |
Piero Aversa Chief Engineer - Global Powertrain NVH Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI |
Dean Barker R&D Manager Fisher and Paykel Healthcare Auckland, New Zealand |
| Pierluigi Benedini Senior Technical Engineer Aptuit Verona, Italy |
John Bennett Senior Manager, Fuels Afton Chemical Limited Bracknell, Berkshire, UK |
Richard Berger Senior CAE Engineer PTC - Performance Cars General Motors Corp. Warren, MI |
| Tathagata Bhattacharya Senior Research Engineer ArcelorMittal (Global R&D) East Chicago, IN |
Laxmidhar Biswal Chief Expert BOSCH Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
Doug Bradley Advanced Development Engineering Manager Plasan Wixom, MI |
| Xinjin Cao Senior Research Officer National Research Council Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Sabin Carpiuc Software Engineer The MathWorks Ltd Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK |
Miguel Castillo VP Technology Development Aernnova Madrid, Spain |
| Anne Coleman Marketing Manager US Digital Vancouver, WA |
Chris Cook Product Development Engineer Dana, Inc. Paris, TN |
Jeff Crompton Principal AltaSim Technologies Columbus, OH |
| Bryn Dixon Studio Design Engineer GM Cadillac Design Warren, MI |
Francesco Ferretti Product Design Engineer Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA |
Jon Fifield Chief Engineer Astronics AES Kirkland, WA |
| Mitch Finne Engineering Manager Medtronic Plymouth, MN |
Brian Gleason Chief Engineer Southwest Airlines Co. Dallas, TX |
Clint Hamre Sr. Manager Toyota Motor North America Wittmann AZ |
| Roger Harmon Member of the Technical Staff Motorola Mobility LLC - Lenovo Chicago, IL |
Jim Hathaway Manager, Production Programs Northrop Grumman Aerospace Redondo Beach, CA |
Robert Holzhauer Electrical Cost Engineer FCA Northville, MI |
| Dave Hosey Engineering Manager Midmark Corporation Versailles, OH |
Abhinav Jain Program Engineering Lead BorgWarner Auburn Hills, MI |
Joshua Johnson Chief Engineer - Chassis Design Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Raymond, OH |
| Bharath Konda Research Engineer ArcelorMittal East Chicago, IN |
Belal Krad Mechanical Component Engineer General Electric Houston, TX |
Deepak Kulkarni Horiba India Ltd Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Pravin Kulkarni Manager-Design Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Nashik, MH, India |
Jacque La valle Senior Electrical Engineer Naval Air Systems Command Patuxent River, MD |
Dzung Le Reliability Metier Manager Schlumberger Jurong, Singapore |
| Sean League Director of Spacecraft Engineering SpaceFab.US Laguna Niguel, CA |
Joseph Lipman Director of Device Development Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY |
Pascal Martinez Manager, Extremely Large Telescope Dome and Main Structure European Southern Observatory Garching bei Muenchen, Bavaria, Germany |
| Lauralyn McDaniel Industry Manager SME Dearborn, MI |
Paul Menig CEO Tech-I-M Sherwood, OR |
Kevin Moore Sr.Principal Engineer Barrios Technology Houston, TX |
| Viviane Morais Innovation Team Leader MAHLE Engine Components Farmington Hills, MI |
Christa Myers Chemical Process Engineer CRB Consulting Engineers Cary, NC |
Adrian Nastase Chief Electronics Engineer MKS Instruments/Newport Corporation Irvine, CA |
| Paul Nussbaum Asst. Dean Engineering Tech. ECPI University Richmond, VA |
Bernard Ordy Aircraft Operability Expert for Systems Airbus SAS Blagnac, France |
Stephen Osborne Lead Project Engineer Stanley Black & Decker Towson, MD |
| Gustavo Palacio Supply Chain Director Andean Region Kimberly Clark Co. Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia |
Jayesh Patel Director of Engineering Services Robert Bosch Battery Systems LLC Orion, MI |
Rupali Patil Lead Engineer John Deere Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Samuel Phillips Consulting Engineer Samuel R. Phillips, Consulting Engineer GRASS VALLEY, California |
Marek Piechocinski Design Engineer Cirrus Logic Edinburgh, UK |
Ron Pietrowski Technical Expert Con Edison New York, NY |
| Constantin Puiu Project Engineer General Motors Pontiac, MI |
Atul Puranik Product Engineer Eaton Corporation Pune, Maharashtra, India |
Jeffery Puschell Principal Engineering Fellow Raytheon El Segundo, CA |
| Antonio Quintieri Principal Engineer Procter & Gamble Waterloo, Belgium |
Niat Rahman Senior CAE Engineer General Motors Warren, MI |
Samson Rajakumar Senior Manager, Transmission Systems Tatamotors ltd Pune, Maharastra, India |
| Mario Rogers Product Engineer Sears Seating Mfg. Davenport, IA |
Joe Salerno Senior Drafter ENengineering Warrenville, IL |
Alex Selvarathinam Aeronautical Engineer Sr Staff Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth, TX |
| Archisman Sen Renault Nissan Alliance Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Gary Sera CEO and Director TEEX Iola, TX |
Kuldip Singh Systems Engineer Harris Corporation VAN NUYS, CA |
| Mary Ann Smith Regulatory Policy Head, Digital Medicines and Devices Novartis San Carlos, CA |
Mike Stokes Principal Design Engineer Ethicon Endo-Surgery Cincinnati, OH |
Ed Tan Senior R&D Electrical Engineer Novasentis Incorporated Berkeley, CA |
| Robert Taylor Technology Manager, Lubricants Shell Global Solutions UK Manchester, Greater Manchester, UK |
Petrica Tudosa R&D Engineer/IRT&NDT Specialist Alstom CH Rieden, Aargau, Switzerland |
Adnan Turkey Senior Professor, College of Engineering and Inform DeVry College of New York New York, NY |
| Rafael Vieira R&D Engineer DENSO Santa Barbara dOeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Torbjorn Virdung Technical Expert, Complete Vehicle CFD Volvo Car Corporation Gothenburg, Sweden |
Adam Wolf Manager Technology Development and ECU Hardware John Deere Power Systems Cedar Falls, IA |
| Bruce Woollard Engineering Fellow Raytheon Tucson, AZ |
Puck Yan Principal Professional Staff Johns Hopkins University Laural, MD |
Richard Yen SVP, Automotive and Global Markets Team Altair Engineering, Inc. Troy, MI |
| Yanchai Zhang Engineer Specialist Caterpillar Dunlap, IL |
2018 Entries
>> All
>> Aerospace &Defense
>> Automotive/Transportation
>> Consumer Products
>> Electronics/Sensors/IoT
>> Robotics/Automation/Manufacturing
>> Medical
>> Sustainable Technologies
2018 Participants
2018 Results
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The population of planet Earth stands at 7.4 billion and is projected to break the nine billion mark by 2040. As concerns about the dwindling resources on our planet continue to escalate, it has become clear that we will need to develop ways in the near future to produce more energy, food and water with less resources.
GSM-based calling system is basically a project for the coal mine workers who put their lives at risk when they enter the mines for work. Mines are deep down beneath the Earth where there is no signal for making even an emergency call and hence once the mine worker enters the mine,
The revolutionary FrictionLess-Gear© [FLG] and Continuously Variable FLG [CV-FLG] provide absolute minimum product size, mass/weight, friction, cost, and energy/fuel requirement, resulting in highest performance - maximal operating speeds, specific torque capacity, reliability, safety factor, longevity, energy output in power generation and solution overall - at any scale.
Introduction
Combining a traditional building material (ceramics) with a new fabrication technique (3D printing) to re-think an ancient building component (bricks), this project demonstrates how 3D printers can become portable, inexpensive brick factories for large-scale construction. Bricks are an ancient building component and their fabrication has seen several innovations throughout history;
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