GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Robotic Building Construction by Contour Crafting
Behrokh Khoshnevis
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY WINNER

The Polariton Interferometer - a Novel Inertial Navigation System
Frederick Moxley
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Honorable Mention:

New Class of High L/D Multi-Rotor VTOL Aircraft
Gregory Heinen
Tierra Global
Lowell, MA, USA

Intermittent Fault Detection & Isolation System (IFDIS)
Ken Anderson
Universal Synaptics Corp.
Roy, UT, USA

AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY WINNER

Continuously Variable Displacement Engine
Steve Arnold
Engine Systems Innovations
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA

Honorable Mention:

3000 Mile Capacitor Powered Electrical Vehicle
Denny Wheeler
Crystalline Energy Research Co.
Nampa, ID, USA

Lestran Orbital IVT Transmission
Hans Peter Hemmer
ASTREMO
Sankt Augustin, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY WINNER

NanoFab Lab...in a Box!
Michael Zach, Anirudha Sumant, and Jonathan Moritz
EChem Nanowires
Stevens Point, WI, USA

Honorable Mention:

Quikiks - The First Totally Hands-Free Supportive Footwear
Steven Kaufman
Hands-Free, LLC
New York, NY, USA

GateKeeper: A Bluetooth Low Energy Proximity Lock for your Computer
Siddharth Potbhare
CoolCAD Electronics
College Park, MD, USA

ELECTRONICS CATEGORY WINNER

A Paradigm Shift for SMT Electronics: Micro-Coil Springs Interconnection for Ceramic and Plastic Grid Array Packaged Integrated Circuits
Jim Hester and Mark Strickland
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL, USA

Honorable Mention:

Wireless Bluetooth Pressure Transducer
Mark McDaniel, Rob Matthes, Dave Topmiller, and RJ Lin
Transducer Direct
Cincinnati, OH, USA

High Power, Medium Voltage Compensator of Voltage Sags and Short Time Interruptions of Voltage at Power Grid with an Energy Storage Implemented as Battery of High-Voltage Supercapacitors
Tomasz Rawinski, Jan Iwaszkiewicz, Eugeniusz Owiec, Krzysztof Zymmer, Piotr Boguslawski, Leszek Dabowski, Aleksander Milak, Jacek Perz, Mariusz Pilecki, Ryszard Strzelecki and Leszek Wolski
Electrotechnical Institute
Gdansk, Poland

MACHINERY/AUTOMATION/ROBOTICS CATEGORY WINNER

Automatic Eye Finder & Tracking System
Rikki Razdan, Alan Kielar, Pat Stearns, and Melissa White
ISCAN Inc.
Woburn, MA, USA

Honorable Mention:

PARS Rescue Robot
Amin Rigi, Hossein Saffari, Amin Mirakhorli, Masood Norozi, and Saeid Talebi
RTS Lab
Tehran, Iran

Mosolver = Motor + Resolver
Donald Labriola
Quicksilver Controls
Covina, CA, USA

MEDICAL CATEGORY WINNER

HemeChip for Early Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease
Yunus Alapan, Ryan Ung, Megan Romelfanger, Asia Akkus, Connie Piccone, Jane Little, and Umut Gurkan
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

Honorable Mention:

ProstaGlove
Christopher LaFarge
MedicaMetrix
Wayland, MA, USA

UroCycler Automatic Bladder Management System
David Flinchbaugh
Tech Applications International
Orlando, FL, USA

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES CATEGORY WINNER

Ecovent Systems - Making Every Room the Right Temperature
Dipul Patel, Yowl Kelman, Nick Lancaster, Shawn Rose, and Brian Bowen
ecovent
Boston, MA, USA

Honorable Mention:

Direct Solar Energy Conversion to Electricity by Low Cost Nanometer Scale Metal-Insulator-Metal Tunnel Diode Serving as a Rectifier in Rectenna Arrays
Nikolai Kislov
Nano CVD Co.
Tampa, FL, USA

Displacement Diesel Consumption with High Altitude Wind Energy from the Altaeros Buoyant Airborne Turbine (BAT)
Ryan Holy, Ben Glass, Adam Rein, Chris Vermillion, and Ephraim Lanford
Altaeros Energies
Somerville, MA, USA

TOP TEN MOST POPULAR ENTRIES

Avhiral
Pilato David
Poitou-Charentes, France

Survival Capsule
Julian Sharpe, Scott Hill, and Eddie Bernard
Survival Capsule, LLC
Mukilteo, WA, USA

Green Cruzer
Thomas Tom, Joanna Joy, Thomas Chacko, and Shruthi Lokanathan
ThomasTom
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Tea Harvester
Ranjit Kumar Das
Guwahati, Assam, India

Magnetic Engine
Nikhil Raj, P.K. Shahu, and Vishwa Mohan
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Equipment for Iron Filing Estimation in Tea
Jatindra Nath Kalita
Tea Research Association
Jorhat, Assam, India

A Solar Chimney Power Plant with a Pyramidal Shape
Dardan Klimenta, Joan Peuteman, and Jelena Klimenta
University of Priština
Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia-Montenegro

Iron Filing Extractor
Jatindra Nath Kalita
Tea Research Association
Jorhat, Assam, India

Automatic Ankle Adjustment for a Prosthetic Leg
Saketh Sai Narayana
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Gear Lever Mounted Clutch
Mahesh Narayan Wagh, Anil Vishal Ramteke, Shirish Shaunak Deshpande, Vinesh Shaneel Kaia, and Bhimrao Akshay Sawant
IKSC
Savedi, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India

 

Konstantinos Antonakopoulos R&D Senior Engineer/Researcher Aker Subsea AS Oslo, Norway	Martin Apa Chief Engineer Exelis Inc. Clifton, NJ, USA	Malath Arar Staff Engineer General Electric – Aviation Clifton Park, NY, USA
Yunus Balogun Materials Engineer Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, IN, USA	Dean Barker Senior Engineering Specialist Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Auckland, New Zealand	Ganesh Kumar Baskaran Principal Engineer Samsung SDS Seoul, South Korea
Nate Bernklau Senior Drivetrain Engineer John Deere Davenport, IA, USA	Stuart Brown Managing Principal Veryst Engineering Needham, MA, USA	Sabin Carpiuc R&D Engineer Continental Automotive Romania Iasi, Romania
Jeff Crompton Principal AltaSim Technologies Columbus, OH, USA	Dennis Doane Distinguished Member Technical Staff Texas Instruments Plano, TX, USA	Mitch Finne Engineering Manager Medtronic Fridley, MN, USA
Vishnu Gandhi Senior Design Engineer Onatrio Power Generation Courtice, Ontario, Canada	Paul Goossens Vice President, Engineering Solutions Maplesoft Waterloo, Ontario, Canada	Christoph Hamann Dr.-Ing Continental Automotive GmbH Regensburg, Germany
Roger Harmon Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Motorola Mobility LLC Chicago, IL, USA	Jim Hathaway Manager, Production Programs Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Redondo Beach, CA, USA	Robert Holzhauer Senior Development Engineer Chrysler Group, LLC Northville, MI, USA
David Jorde Owner Jorde Development, Design & Consulting Fallbrook, CA, USA	Pankaj Kalore Engineer Miller Electric Mfg. Co. Appleton, WI, USA	Preston Kemp Principal Engineer GE Power & Water Greenville, SC, USA
Gary Kemp Mechanical Engineer Staff Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Euless, TX, USA	James Lauer Master Black Belt Caterpillar Inc. Morton, IL, USA	Dzung Le Reliability and V&V Manager Schlumberger Jurong, Singapore
Yu-Tai Lee Senior Scientist Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division West Bethesda, MD, USA	Yong Chin Lim RDD Manager Dyson Malaysia Senai, Malaysia	Edward Miesak Scientist Lockheed Martin Orlando, FL, USA
Scott Moore Chief Engineer Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Anoka, MN, USA	Paul Moren Projects Quality Manager Valeo Cergy Pontoise, France	Stephen Osborne Senior Project Engineer Stanley Black & Decker Towson, MD, USA
David Ouellette Lead Designer General Electric Plainville, CT, USA	Anil Pandit Consulting Engineer GE Industrial Solutions Bangalore, India	Terry Partridge Technical Advisor Cummins Inc. Columbus, IN, USA
Richard Paw Strategic Alliance Manager Synopsys Mountain View, CA, USA	Humberto Pretti Senior Structural Engineer General Motors San Paulo, Brazil	Jeffery Puschell Principal Engineering Fellow Raytheon El Segundo, CA, USA
Antonio Quintieri Senior Engineer Procter & Gamble Waterloo, Belgium	Niat Rahman Project Engineer General Motors Pontiac, MI, USA	Muriel Saccoccio Engineer & Project Manager CNES (French Space Agency) Toulouse, France
Wolfgang-Michael Schulz Dr. rer. nat. SEMIKRON Zirndorf, Germany	Alex Selvarathinam Aeronautical Engineer Senior Staff Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth, TX, USA	Susan Stanton Principal SBCi Ltd. Sunbury, OH, USA
Michael Stokes Design Engineer Ethicon Endo–Surgery Cincinnati, OH, USA	Edwin Tan Electrical Design Engineer KLA-Tencor Milpitas, CA, USA	Petrica Tudosa R&D NDT Alstom CH Rieden, Germany
Rich White R&D Mechanical Engineer Agilent Technologies Wilmington, DE	Bruce Woollard Engineering Fellow Raytheon Tucson, AZ, USA	Puck Yan Principal Professional Staff Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD, USA

2014 Entries

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>> Aerospace & Defense
>> Automotive/Transportation
>> Consumer Products
>> Electronics
>> Machinery/Automation/Robotics
>> Medical
>> Sustainable Technologies

2014 Participants

>> Entrants
>> Judges

2014 Results

>> Top Votes
>> Winners
>> Top 100
>> Press Release

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Top Ten Leaders

The Runners Up

#11 with 143 votes
    Design of Staircase Climbing Mechanical System for a Wheelchair

#12 with 136 votes
    The Future Of Power Electronics Control Mechanisms

#13 with 129 votes
    Hybrid energy fruits and vegetables chiller

#14 with 109 votes
    Accessibility Of Domestic Area Network Using Handheld Devices

#15 with 103 votes
    Low Power Wireless Sensor Network For Building Monitoring

#16 with 99 votes
    Suborbital exploration probe. Multipurpose probe for scientific applications

#17 with 91 votes
    Transit Ripening And Cooling System (TRACS)

#18 with 77 votes
    Workstation for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

#19 with 76 votes
    Caterpillar Robot - Bio Inspired Smart Search and Rescue Robot for Disaster Management

#20 with 71 votes
    Heat Sensors For Spacecraft

#21 with 68 votes
    Advanced Tire Pressure Monitoring System

#21 with 68 votes
    Smart Aquaponic Greenhouse    (tie)

#23 with 62 votes
    Micro-Controller Based Quality Analysis Of Frying Oil

#24 with 57 votes
    Advanced Wound Monitoring and Feedback Device

#25 with 56 votes
    SAKALARAVA

#26 with 54 votes
    MAGLift

#27 with 53 votes
    Project Airship

#28 with 52 votes
    Shock Absorber Test Rig

#28 with 52 votes
    Snake Hand    (tie)

#30 with 50 votes
    Automatic Eye Finder & Tracking System

#31 with 41 votes
    A G-G Enabled Audio Navigation Device for Visually Challenged People using Haptic Technology (G-GAN)

#32 with 39 votes
    Apparatus and Method for Ergonomic Support of Human System Interaction

#33 with 37 votes
    extracting power from wind energy

#33 with 37 votes
    SARM: Changing the Internal Combustion engines    (tie)

#35 with 36 votes
    machine for "360 degree decoding of data matrix printed on bottles"

#36 with 35 votes
    Intelligent Refueling System

#37 with 33 votes
    Design of an Dual driven Auto Rickshaw for physically Challenged Persons

#38 with 32 votes
    Innovative Concept of Hybrid Vehicle Propulsion

#38 with 32 votes
    Click your way to healthcare!    (tie)

#38 with 32 votes
    Telescopic Collapsible Shelter (TCS)    (tie)

#41 with 31 votes
    The Polariton Interferometer - a Novel Inertial Navigation System

#41 with 31 votes
    Field Trauma Wound Care Kit for K-9 (‘FTK-9’) (Poochie-Peds™ ), Formulae, Method of Use and Apparatus for Making Of Same    (tie)

#43 with 30 votes
    WAND (Wound Analysis Device)

#44 with 28 votes
    Air Management System for Heavy Duty Vehicles

#45 with 27 votes
    Slam With Markers For The Blind

#45 with 27 votes
    Cloud and Smartphone Security    (tie)

#45 with 27 votes
    vinasse fertilizer    (tie)

#48 with 26 votes
    Aero MU

#48 with 26 votes
    smart oscilloscope    (tie)

#48 with 26 votes
    SMS Based Audio Video Playback, Security System    (tie)

#48 with 26 votes
 nbsp;   MUHD (Mono Unit Hybrid Drive)    (tie)

#52 with 25 votes
    Thermotray

#53 with 24 votes
    Application of piezoelectric material on railway platform, temples, runways, and roads to generate electricity

#54 with 23 votes
    AMPHI-BX : An Amphibious Two Wheeler

#55 with 22 votes
    Motorbrid

#56 with 21 votes
    Intermittent Fault Detection & Isolation System (IFDIS)

#57 with 20 votes
    Poor Man's Air Conditioning

#58 with 19 votes
    LampFive

#58 with 19 votes
    ecovent Systems - Make every room the right temperature    (tie)

#58 with 19 votes
    Displacing Diesel Consumption with High Altitude Wind Energy from the Altaeros Buoyant Airborne Turbine (BAT)    (tie)

#61 with 18 votes
    Fuel Efficient Air Pressure Wood & Coal Stove

#61 with 18 votes
    Fabrication of Refrigerator Using Heat Pipe Only    (tie)

#63 with 17 votes
    Methods And Apparatus for Mitigating Space Debris with Autonomous SDCM's

#63 with 17 votes
    Automatic Toll Gate System Using Advanced RFID And GSM Technology    (tie)

#63 with 17 votes
    Generation of Electricity using Speed Breakers    (tie)

#66 with 16 votes
    OPHIR

#66 with 16 votes
    TOR Jet (Takeoff Ramjet)    (tie)

#66 with 16 votes
    Field Trauma Wound Care Kit for K-9's ("FTK-9", Formulae, Method of Use and Manufacturing Method Thereof    (tie)

#69 with 15 votes
    Naturally Supercavitated Platforms for Naval Applications

#69 with 15 votes
    Mosolver = Motor + Resolver    (tie)

#69 with 15 votes
    innovative mobile phone-aesthetically modified    (tie)

#69 with 15 votes
    SkatE-Pods    (tie)

#73 with 14 votes
    multi directional tipper: Unloading on all three directions

#73 with 14 votes
    Wireless RF Modem based LED dynamic display system with RFID user Authentication    (tie)

#73 with 14 votes
    Rescue N Relief Kit    (tie)

#73 with 14 votes
    Ultra Fuel Efficient Vehicle    (tie)

#73 with 14 votes
    Solar Powered Vehicle for In campus transportation    (tie)

#73 with 14 votes
    harvest mechanical advantage    (tie)

#79 with 13 votes
    Time Capsule to Mars

#79 with 13 votes
    Direct solar energy conversion to electricity by potentially low cost nanometer scale Metal-Insulator-Metal tunnel diode serving as a rectifier in rectenna arrays    (tie)

#79 with 13 votes
    An Intelligent Wearable Military Coat For Withstanding The Cold And Wireless Alert System For Soldiers    (tie)

#79 with 13 votes
    USB ICPDigital Accelerometer    (tie)

#79 with 13 votes
    AHELICAMBULANCE    (tie)

#84 with 12 votes
    Luxury Reader

#84 with 12 votes
    Building Energy Efficiency Technologies of the Ginning machine    (tie)

#84 with 12 votes
    A Protection Method against Side-Attacks on Microsystems    (tie)

#84 with 12 votes
    No Horn, No noise any more    (tie)

#84 with 12 votes
    Programmable Fan/Blower    (tie)

#84 with 12 votes
    Regional solar power plants    (tie)

#84 with 12 votes
    Gladiator Cargo Safety Nets    (tie)

#91 with 11 votes
    Graphene Electromagnetic Emitter: A Terahertz Frequency Source

#91 with 11 votes
    Composite Leaf Spring for Improved Performance in Automobiles    (tie)

#91 with 11 votes
    UroPal: Simple Urinary Catheterization Without The Mess!    (tie)

#91 with 11 votes
    Omnidirectional Personal Transport    (tie)

#91 with 11 votes
    An Aircraft Tracking System utilizing Radar Technology in Space&nnbsp;   (tie)

#91 with 11 votes
    Internal Combustion Two-Stroke Engine    (tie)

#97 with 10 votes
    Next generation Power Station

#97 with 10 votes
    170 mpg Hydraulic Hybrid    (tie)

#97 with 10 votes
    Cobbler's Workstation    (tie)

#97 with 10 votes
    feeding machine    (tie)

#97 with 10 votes
    Team Taiyo Zen Electric Solar Vehicle    (tie)

#97 with 10 votes
    Smart Shield    (tie)