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CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY

BreezeRite Air Filtration Module
Rob Luchsinger, Pipe Creek, Texas
BreezeRite eliminates the dust build up on the top and forward edge of fan blades and allows the ease of cleaning by simply pulling out the filter housing and rinsing it off - or replacing it with new filters, instead of trying to vacuum, dust or wash down each fan blade.

MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CATEGORY

Lift Pump
Eric Foy, Central Point, Oregon
The current invention comprises an axial flow impeller pump section located at the inlet end of the transfer hose, a power head at the flex-fitting located near the destination (tank or truck), and a flexible drive shaft running inside the transfer hose.

MEDICAL CATEGORY

IDEA™ Enhanced Pulse Oximetry
Rodrigo Teixeira, Alton J. Reich, Stephen F. Malin, Huntsville, Alabama
IDEA™ is an elegant confluence of recent advances in probabilistic inference, unsupervised machine learning and quantitative medicine.

SAFETY AND SECURITY CATEGORY

Digital Window Distributed Imaging Camera
Ellen Cargill, Peter Jones, Dennis Purcell, Boston MA
Scallop Imaging's seven mexapixel Digital Window D7-180 video surveillance camera is the first stand-alone computational imaging system, able to stream and record in full-color high resolution throughout its 180° field of view, without fisheye distortion.

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY

Sustainable, Durable Bridges of the Future
Ibrahim Al-Khattat, Talacre, Wales United Kingdom
The LPSA (light prestressed segmented arch) engineering system reduces bridge building to assembling a kit of compact parts that can easily be manufactured and transported, resulting in considerable cost, energy, and capital investment savings

TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY

Regenerative Braking Bike Front Wheel
David Swain, Frank Maurer, Jason Moore, Albert Shih, Pipe Creek, Texas
The goal of the system is to ultimately make it a retrofit front-wheel for any bicycle using hydraulic pump motors that exist today and are over 94% efficient.

Grand Prize

Rowheel Wheelchair Propulsion System
Salim Nasser
A new invention could help millions of manual wheelchair users increase their mobility while decreasing upper body, repetitive stress injuries. Many who suffer from muscle pain, torn rotator cuffs, joint degeneration, and carpal tunnel syndrome due to muscle overuse will benefit from the Rowheel Wheelchair Propulsion System. This innovative design uses a pulling/rowing motion as opposed to the standard pushing motion.

Consumer Products Category

BreezeRite Air Filtration Module
Rob Luchsinger, Pipe Creek, Texas
Filter attaches to the leading edge of indoor ceiling fan blades and quickly eliminates airborne particulates, smoke, and odors.

Machinery & Equipment Category

Lift Pump
Eric Foy, Central Point, Oregon
A high-flow lift pump can be used to draw water from low lying areas and lift a few feet to fill a header tank or mobile water tender in a matter of a few minutes.

Medical Category

IDEA™ Enhanced Pulse Oximetry
Rodrigo E. Teixeira, Alton J. Reich, Stephen F. Malin, Huntsville, AL
The first noninvasive, convenient, and reliable way to measure the volume of blood pumped by the human heart -- a direct indicator of heart health.

Safety and Security Category

Digital Window Distributed Imaging Camera
Ellen Cargill, Peter Jones, Dennis Purcell, Boston, MA
The first stand-alone computational imaging system, able to stream and record in full-color high resolution throughout its 180° field of view, without fisheye distortion.

Sustainable Technology Category

Sustainable, Durable Bridges of the Future
Ibrahim Al-Khattat, Talacre, Wales, UK
A “green” technology that could revolutionize materials, design, and construction methods of bridges, this design offers a unique inherent capacity to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes, and flooding.

Transportation Category

Regenerative Braking Bike Front Wheel
David Swain, Frank Maurer, Jason Moore, Albert Shih, Ann Arbor, MI
A retrofit front-wheel for a bicycle that uses state-of-the art hydraulics to store braking energy for later release.

 

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Contest Judges

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's contest!

VP of Sales, NW USA
COMSOL, Inc
Palo Alto, CA

John Dunec received his PhD from Stanford University in 1983. John has over 25 years experience in product analysis, development and manufacturing, first with IBM, then with an early multiphysics startup, then running a product development consulting firm. John has experience with all phases of the development process:  research, concept prototyping, formal product development, and refining a design for ease-of-manufacture. He has optimized production processes and designed mass-production tooling. John is currently VP of Sales, NW USA and Manager of COMSOL's Palo Alto office.

Manager, Product Design
Millipore
Danvers, MA

I have 13 years experience as a product designer with Millipore in the Bioscience division.  We design and develop cutting edge tools and solutions for Life Science researchers.  I have a BS in Physics and Mechanical Engineering with research focus on computational modeling.  We have been using COMSOL for 3 years.

Engineering Project Manager
Lockheed Martin
Moorestown, NJ

BSME Worcester Polytechnic Institute
MSME University of Pennsylvania
Licensed Professional Engineer
Certified Manager
Over 24 years experience in aerospace & defense

Senior Systems Engineer I
Raytheon
Tucson, AZ

Electrical Engineer at Raytheon Company

Engineer
Solar Turbines
San Diego, CA

BS and MS Mechanical engineering San Diego State University
Professor for Mechanical Engineering SDSU, UCLA, USD
Math Prfessor SDSU, Santa Monica Cit College

Masters thesis in Biomechanical Engineering.
Currently a Industrial Gas Turbine Design Engineer, Solar Turbines Caterpillar

Past Chair ASME for San Diego 2008 and 2009
Member of ASM for San Diego

Specialize in Fatigue analysis methods and non-linear mechanics. Examples
are creep, crack growth, hyperelasticity. Also teach finite element courses
for ASME, UCLA and SDSU.

Work in material property database systems for high temperature alloys.
Work in computational analysis and modeling for mechanical design.

Judge the Greater Science and Engineering Fair for San Diego for the
past 12 years.

Senior Engineer
Whirlpool Corporation
Benton Harbor, MI

Have a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the The University of Toledo, Ohio. Six years industry experience in applied thermal and fluid engineering with application in the household appliance industry and a registered Professional Engineer(PE) in the state of Michigan