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This project is about utilization of new approach for demolition that does not destroy bricks so that they can be usable without going any process after the demolition process to build new buildings or housings by utilization of water jet cutting machine to separate the cement that connect each brick together to form a wall.
One of the main reasons mechanical failure occurs in any kind of machinery is due to failure of the gear especially when the gear tooth beaks suddenly due to different reasons. The only way to deal with gear tooth breakage that is considered unfillable is replacement of the gear and disposal, but what if this is not the case?
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Our proposed small cargo drone delivery system is an innovative and cost-effective solution for short intercity distances. The system consists of two types of drones, Balto and Togo, which work together to optimize the delivery process. Balto is an electric quadcopter that picks up cargo from a user-specified location and delivers it to a sorting buffer.
2023 Entries
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>> Manufacturing & Materials
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2023 Participants
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2023 Results
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Kevin Alderman
Heat Treat Engineer
Malath Arar
Staff Engineer
James Becker
Chief Innovation Officer
Richard Berger
Lead Program Engineer Aero & Thermal - Trucks
Nate Bernklau
Product System Design Partner
Mantosh Bhattacharya
Gregory Blackwell
Principal Scientist II
Angelo Bonfieti
Mergers & Acquisitions IT Integrator
Leonid Bunegin
Chief Innovation Officer
Sabin Carpiuc
Senior Physical Modeling Engineer
Miguel Castillo
VP Technology Development
ChiehMin Cheng
Research Fellow / Area Manager
Federico Cindolo
Director of Research
Chris Cook
Sr. Engineering Manager
Jeff Crompton
Chief Technology Officer
Michael Cukier
Principal Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing
Fernando Da Mota Lopes Junior
Mechanical Engineer
Monica de Andrade
Global Product Manager
Adrian Draghici
R&D Manager
David Ferguson
Global Technology Leader
Francesco Ferretti
Product Design Engineer
Jon Fifield
Chief Engineer
Mitch Finne
Engineering Director
Inmaculada Galvez
Supply Chain Quality Manager
Lee Gates
Technical Pathfinder
Jim Hathaway
Manager, Advanced Technologies Programs
Robert Holzhauer
Electrical Cost Engineer
David Hosey
Engineering Manager
Vivek Jain
Lead Expert
Farhan Jangda
Product Manager
Tomasz Kawala
Technical Specialist, Electronics Design
Boris Khusid
Professor
Wonoh Kim
Principal Software Engineer
Andreas Klemm
Compliance Program Manager
Ozgur Kocaturk
VP of MRI Guided Therapies
Bharath Konda
Product Marketing Manager
Patrick Krueger
Manager, Manufacturing Engineering
Deepak Kulkarni
Rick Langkamp
Manager of New Product Development (Retired)
Christopher Lewis
Senior Staff Product Manager
Joseph Lipman
Director of Device Development
Lorena Lopez
Clinical Specialist - Head of Clinical Affairs
Reggie Lund
Design Engineer
William Mazzara
Global Cybersecurity Technical Fellow
Jose Mercado Rojas
Scott Moore
Chief Engineer
Kevin Moore
Sr. Principal Engineer
Arunachalam Nagarajan
Engineering Senior Manager
Paul Nussbaum
Professor
Michael O'Connor
Senior Research Program Director
Stephen Osborne
Director of Engineering
Kapil Panchal
Aerodynamics Engineer
Anilkumar Pandit
Senior Consulting Engineer
Jay Paster
Electronics Engineer
Marek Piechocinski
MEMS Design Engineer
Peter Piechocniski
Manager Electrical Applications
Ron Pietrowski
Steam Engineering Manager
Antonio Quintieri
Principal Engineer
John Radke
Mgr. Integrated Technologies Product Support
Fayaz Rasheed
Senior Mechanical System and Design Analysis Engineer
Robert Render
Business Development Manager, Sustainability
Scott Rishell
Director of Application Development
Edgar Rodriguez
Director, Smart Interactions Design Group
Marc Rosenmayr
Advisor
Alex Selvarathinam
LM Fellow
Gary Sera
Director Emiritus
Abiraman Srinivasan
Chief Technology Officer
Mike Stokes
Principal Design Engineer
Samson Stoll
Systems Engineer
John Trevino
Lead Staff Engineer
Wladimiro Villarroel
Associate Professor
Torbjorn Virdung
Technical Expert, Complete Vehicle CFD
William Wells
Control System Engineer
Rich Wells
Associate Professor
Stephen Wilson
Director of Engineering
Puck Yan
Principal Professional Staff
Nan Zhang
Scientist, Senior Key Expert, R&D
The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
A Low-Cost Precise Landing Method for Drone Logistics
AI Supported Robotic Diagnostic Treatment System for Vertigo
ALIFE AIR (Zero Emission Fuel)
Arm Monkey Interactive Toy for Arm Rehabilitation of Children
Astron Omega 1 Rotary Hydrogen Engine
Automatic Identification System Heads Up Display (AISHUD)
Betterfrost Ultra-low Energy Defrost & Defog System
Bio-inspired Lightweight and Energy-efficient Planetary Drill and Sample
Biodegradable Environmental Sensors
Caldera - Electric Vehicle Charging Simulation Platform
Carbon Capture and Utilization
Celcy - the Automated Nespresso of Food
Closed Loop Control for the Reduction of Soot in Diesel Fueled Engines
Continuous Predictive Respiratory Monitoring
CRBBP Process: Cost-Effective CO2 Capture, Remediation & Bio-Products
Damage Tolerant Anticorrosion Coating for Steel
Double Sided Active Cooling for High Power Electronics
DOWSIL™ TC-4060 for Powertrain Electrification
DOWSIL™ TC-6015 Thermal Encapsulant
DURATRACK Two Component Waterborne Coating for Durable Green Bike Lane
Electric Arc Pseudoalloy Coatings
Electronically Invincible GPS and Communication Receiver
Eternium Long Range Multi-role Fuel Cell Electric Aircraft and Fuel System
First Drug to Stop Disease Progression in Heart Failure Patients
Flushable Minibots for Leak Detection and Prediction
From Waste to Energy Materials Such as Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrogen
Gaia Project Australia Leafy Green CEA Farm
Gigabot X: Recycling Plastic via Pellet 3D Printing
HCCI Fickett-Jacobs Cycle Internal Pulse Detonation Engine
High-temperature Air-cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cells — a Solution for Zero-emission Aviation
iChessOne: The First FOLDABLE Electronic Chessboard
Improving Diesel Engine Emissions with Real-Time Non-Surfactant Fuel Supply System
KUHMUTE Universal Charging Network for Anything Smaller than an Electric Car
Large Scale Spark Plasma Sintering for Silicon Carbide Armor Tiles
Large-scale 3D Printing with Tubes
Lightweight Steel for Body-in-White and Battery Enclosures of Electric Vehicles
Lionheart Biotechnology - Miniaturizing the Test Tube
Low-Cost Laboratory-Grade Refractometer for DEF Fluid Quality
LuxSense™: the World’s 1st High-end Silicone Leather for Auto
Meili Technologies: Revolutionizing Vehicle Safety with Deep Learning Medical Emergency Detection
Microrobot Device for Treating Brain Hemorrhages
Mouth-Guard: Wearable Saliva-based Biosensor for Heart Health Monitoring
Multi-Ducted Angled Rotor System
New Perovskite Glass Composite Enabling Unbreakable Screens
Passive Porous Tube Nutrient Delivery System
POWERBLoK Ultracapacitor Energy Storage Solution
Real-Time Pathogen Detection Technology
Red Series Additive Fusion Technology
RF Fingerprinting for Industrial IoT Security
RISC Camera for Hyperspectral Image Endoscopy
Seawater Electrolysis System with High-current-density Capability
Smart Molecules Act as Computer Transistors
Smart Orthopedic Implant to Enhance Bone Growth
Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Test
Solar Guardian PV Connector for Preventing Arc-Faults in Solar Arrays
SUNPave: Tomorrow’s Energy Today
Swarm Control and Extensible, Transformative, Spacecraft using CubeSats as Modular Building Blocks
Tactical Aerial Kinetic Device™ TAK-D™
Teralase Compact Excimer Laser
The Novel Squid Glaucoma microShunt
The Truly Revolutionary “Impossible” Reactionless Drive
Tracking and Mitigation of Space Debris from LEO Satellites
Universal Solder Stencil (U.S.S.)
Viewing Fiber Optic Connectors
Vision-Based High-Speed Autonomous Drone Navigation
Waterborne Paints for Automobile Application
GRAND PRIZE
FlowIO Platform
Ali Shtarbanov, Ozgun Afsar, Hye Jun Youn, and Prof. Joseph Paradiso, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY
The Well-Dressed Spacecraft: Electronic Textile Enhanced Thermal Blanket as Debris (and Cosmic Dust) Sensor
Juliana Cherston, Wei Yan, Grace Noel, Yuchen Sun, David Veysset, Steve Kooi, Syamantak Payra, Irmandy Wicaksono, Hajime Yano, Yoel Fink, and Joseph Paradiso, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Honorable Mention – Aerospace & Defense Category
Eternium Long Range Multi-role Fuel Cell Electric Aircraft and Fuel System
Jared Semik, Eternium Aerospace, Novato, CA, USA
Vision-based High-Speed Autonomous Drone Navigation
Antonio Loquercio, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Multi-Ducted Angled Rotor System
Liza Pierce, Stuart Dana, and Thomas Johnson, SpyDar Inc., Fairfax, VA, USA
Bio-inspired Lightweight and Energy-efficient Planetary Drill and Sample
Mohamed Alkalla, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY
Betterfrost Ultra-low Energy Defrost & Defog System
Derrick Redding, Betterfrost Technologies, Ontario, Canada
Honorable Mention – Automotive/Transportation Category
Meili Technologies: Revolutionizing Vehicle Safety with Deep Learning Medical Emergency Detection
John DeFelice, Samantha Lee, Marc Rosenmayr, and Makena Kraus, Meili Technologies, New York, NY, USA
KUHMUTE Universal Charging Network for Anything Smaller than an Electric Car
Peter Deppe, Scott Spitler, Jon Larr, Edward Wenzel, Melody Denby, Austin Hindman, Jared Robinson, Preston Gage, and Carter Holmes, KUHMUTE, Flint, MI, USA
Astron Omega 1 Rotary Hydrogen Engine
Matthew Riley and Chris Theodore, Theodore & Associates, Birmingham, MI, USA
Closed Loop Control for the Reduction of Soot in Diesel Fueled Engines
Michael Holihan and Patrick Derbin, Woodstock, GA, USA
CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN CATEGORY
Green Screen
Tim Larsen, TL-Engineering, Virum, Denmark
Honorable Mention – Consumer Product Design Category
Human Friendly Mug
Amin Hasani, CURVD®, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Passive Porous Tube Nutrient Delivery System
Jacob Torres and Tom Dreschel, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Air-Clenz™ Enabled Monitors and Laptops Clean Exhaled Air of COVID and other Airborne Respiratory Pathogens
Ronald Blum, Anita Broach, Stuart Sheldon, Russell French, and Jack Loeb, CSI: Create. Solve. Innovate., Christiansburg, VA, USA
BlisCare
Chinmaya Naik, BlisCare, Nagpur, India
ELECTRONICS/SENSORS/IOT CATEGORY
RF Fingerprinting for Industrial IoT Security
Page Heller, Endpoint Security Inc., College Station, TX, USA
Honorable Mention – Electronics/Sensors/IoT Category
Smart Molecules Act as Computer Transistors
Stijn Mertens, Kang Cui, Kunal Mali, Dongqing Wu, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen, Michael Walter, and Steven De Feyter, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Flushable Minibots for Leak Detection and Prediction
Mattias Bergstrom, Internet of Everything Corp., Puerto De La Cruz , Spain
Biodegradable Environmental Sensors
Cherish Bauerreich, University of Jamestown, Jamestown, ND, USA
Smartphone-based COVID-19 Test
Jeong Yeol Yoon, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
MANUFACTURING/ROBOTICS/AUTOMATION CATEGORY
Large-scale 3D Printing with Tubes
Hadley Brooks, Nick Hopkins, and Ruben Janse van Vuuren, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Honorable Mention – Manufacturing/Robotics/Automation Category
SprayWell
Dervis Gursoy, SprayWell, Madison, WI, USA
DOWSIL™ TC-6015 Thermal Encapsulant
Yan Huang, Dorab Bhagwagar, Linfei Wang, Fred Feng, Tong Wu, Elsa Xie, Cliff Li, Terry Tang, Khan Zhang, Frank Wang, Emily Zhao, Cathy Tang, Nick Fan, and Zhihua Liu, Dow Chemical Company, Shanghai, China
Damage Tolerant Anticorrosion Coating for Steel
Muhammad Rahman, Sandhya Susarla, Md. Abid Shariar Saadi, Nancy Cui, and Pulickel Ajayan, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Electric Arc Pseudoalloy Coatings
Nataliia Vigilianska, Burlachenko Oleksii, and Grishchenko Oleksandr, E.O. Paton Electric Welding, Kyiv, Ukraine
MEDICAL CATEGORY
The Novel Squid Glaucoma microShunt
Karanjit Kooner, Orlando Auciello, Walter Voit, and Yanliang Zhang, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Honorable Mention – Medical Category
Wearable Continuous Blood Pressure Monitors
Xina Quan, Zhenan Bao, Keith Drake, Doug Halperin, Weyland Leong, Junjun Liu, Art Muir, Peter Noymer, Dave Richardson, Thomas Roxlo, and Will Sutherland, PyrAmes Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
AI Supported Robotic Diagnostic Treatment System for Vertigo
M. Haluk Ozkul ,Tarik Ozkul, and Burhan Ozmen, SYG Medical, Istanbul, Turkey
Continuous Predictive Respiratory Monitoring
Richard Hughen and Ronen Feldman, Linshom Medical Inc., Annapolis, MD, USA
Smart Orthopedic Implant to Enhance Bone Growth
Ben Hertzog, John Zellmer, Martin Larsson, Erik Zellmer, and Rory Murphy, Intelligent Implants, Houston, TX, USA
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES/FUTURE ENERGY CATEGORY
SUNPave: Tomorrow’s Energy Today
Muhammad Rashad, Mohammad AlGammal, Hend Faiad, Azza Faiad, Ahmad Abd El-Kader, Islam Gowaid, and Ahmed Abdelhamid, SUNPave, Newark, DE, USA
Honorable Mention – Sustainable Technologies/Future Energy Category
Zinc Sponge Battery
Michael Burz, Meinrad Machler, Philip Baker, DJ Desai, Sam Reul, and Robb Vinzent, EnZinc, Richmond, CA, USA
Solar Guardian PV Connector for Preventing Arc-Faults in Solar Arrays
Kenny Blemel, Management Sciences Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA
CG-AG
Brit Capizzano, Connor McMenamin, Mike Pollnow, and Bruce Mannakee, Chemcoaters LLC, Gary, IN, USA
DURATRACK Two Component Waterborne Coating for Durable Green Bike Lane
Bingquan Li, Eric Greyson, Laura Vielhauer, Seth Roberts, Thomas Winterberg, Karlie Godshall, Stephanie Long, Joseph Grant, Kenneth Smith, Carly Haller, Arthur Leman, Joy Gallagher, Jeff Millman, Robert Bills, Jamie Sullivan, Janet Tesfai, Andrea Greyson, and Kiran Baikerikar, Dow Chemical Company, Collegeville, PA, USA
TOP TEN MOST POPULAR ENTRIES
The Horus Green J-1 Hydro-Pneumatic Portable Spray Machine
Jonar Cubillan, Patrick Morton, Richard Marquéz, Mercilino Quinto, Caridad Irazabal, Jocaris Cubillan, Joasun Cubillan, Yanmiver Jímenez, Anubis Hernandez, Yomaira Hernandez, Sixto López, Nery Farfan, Miriam Calles, Mirian López, Manuel González, Gabriel Sanchez, and Rafael Rodriguez, 3JC Technologies, Maracaibo, Venezuela
The Novel Squid Glaucoma microShunt
Karanjit Kooner, Orlando Auciello, Walter Voit, and Yanliang Zhang, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Closed Loop Control for the Reduction of Soot in Diesel Fueled Engines
Michael Holihan and Patrick Derbin, Woodstock, GA, USA
A Home-use Diagnostic Pad for Early Detection of Women’s Diseases
Shlomit Yehudai Reshef, Habonim, Israel
Linear Slide Sensor
David Dahl, DTL Linear, Cody, WY
Pre_Copy-Post_Paste
Prajwal Kodihalli, Gadag , India
Advanced Wearable Artificial Intelligence Translator
Putta Chidvilas, Hyderabad, India
Smart Saline Monitoring System
Vimal Kumar MN, Aakash Ram S, Rubesh CM, and Sikkandarbatcha M, Sona College of Technology, Salem, India
New Rotary Engine Using Detonation Combustion
Vladimir Shapovalov and Alexandr Visotzkiy, MER Corp., Albuquerque, NM, USA
PATAGONIUM: Multi-chamber Blood Pressure Cuff with Selective Connection
Ricardo Rodrigez Aranciva, San Luis, Argentina
To extract professional-quality espresso, it requires 20Bar(290psi) pressure. And, mechanically it requires a water pump to disperse the hot water onto ground coffee.
In a conventional espresso-making apparatus, electric-powered water pumps for indoor use, and hand-pump-powered espresso makers have been widely used. However,
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This system works by disrupting the surface tension of water that 1, forms a wedge under a tire due to a combination of velocity and water depth on the road/runway surface (Dynamic Hydroplaning) and 2, aerosolizing the thin layer of water on oil film that forms on paved surfaces due to rubber deposited by tire contact and spin
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