2024 Winners
2024 Winners
| Prize | Name | Program | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master's Winner - $1000 | Karina Bhattacharya | MID, Industrial Design | Co-Design with Neurodivergent Students and Recent Graduates to Reimagine Design Education |
| Winner - $2000 | Alexandra Patterson | PhD, Bioengineering | Next Generation At-Home Diagnostics Powered by CRISPR |
| 2nd Place - $1500 | Kantwon Rogers | PhD, Computer Science | What Happens When a Robot Lies to You? |
| 3rd Place - $1000 | Valeria Juarez | PhD, Biomedical Engineering | Spatially Patterned Immune Organoids for Vaccine Screening |
| People’s Choice - $500 | Kantwon Rogers | PhD, Computer Science | What Happens When a Robot Lies to You? |
2023 Winners
| Prize | Name | Program | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
Master's Winner*
| Sravan Jayanthi Pranav Premdas | Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering | Learning Decision Making from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Drivers Super Resolution Ultrasound for Cancer Diagnosis |
| Ph.D. Winner | Corey Zheng | Biomedical Engineering | Direct Lithography Micro-Optic 3D Light Field Endoscope Module |
Ph.D. Runners-Up*
| Asim Gazi Nikhil Iyengar | Electrical and Computer Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Sensing and Reacting to Stress Using Wearables and Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Uncertainty Propagation in High-Dimensional Fields using Reduced Order Modeling |
| People’s Choice Winner | Shaylyn Grier | Biomedical Engineering | Metabolic Programming of CAR-T Cells: Engineering Memory |
*Master's and Ph.D. categories resulted in a tie
2022 Winners
| Prize | Name | Program | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master's Winner | Timothy Min | Music Technology | Inducing Empathy Among Strangers Through Biofeedback-Controlled Stimuli |
| PhD Winner | Ashley Alva | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Tracking Immune Cells with Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Cancer |
| PhD Runner-Up | Michelle Quizon | Mechanical Engineering | Treating Type 1 Diabetes: Delivery of Cells in Gels |
| PhD Third Place | Abigail Paulson | Biomedical Engineering | Rhythms to the Rescue: Sensory Flicker as a Potential Therapeutic for Alzheimer’s Disease |
| People's Choice | Michelle Quizon | Mechanical Engineering | Treating Type 1 Diabetes: Delivery of Cells in Gels |
2020 Winners
Due to Covid-19, competition was delayed until spring 2021.
Ph.D. Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Saad Javaid | Materials Science and Engineering | UltraVision and Time Manipulation: Technology Inspired Superpowers for Studying Cracks |
| Second Place | Muhammad Saad Zia | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Mitigating Beam Alignment Errors in Millimeter-Wave Communications to Go Beyond 5G |
| Third Place | Megan McSweeney | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | AptaTrigger: A Novel Biosensor Platform for Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
| People's Choice | Megan McSweeney | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | AptaTrigger: A Novel Biosensor Platform for Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
Master's Winner
| Name | Major | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Clara Glassman | Medical Physics | Creating the Google Maps of Brain-Behavior Relationships: A New Look at Post Stroke MRIs |
2019 Winners
Ph.D. Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Paola Zanella | Aerospace Engineering | Mitigation of Helicopter Accidents Related to Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness |
| Second Place | Smruthi Karthikeyan | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Microbes, Oil Spills and Beyond: Using Microbes to Predict the Impact of Oil Spills |
| Third Place | Suttipong Suttapitugsakul | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Not Just a Sugar Coating! Understanding the Language of Cells through Their Sweet Surface |
| People's Choice | Jeongwon Kim | Mechanical Engineering | Suppression of Combustion Instability |
Master's Winner
| Name | Major | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Po-Wei Huang | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | A Sustainable Method to Alleviate the Global Thirst of Lithium |
2018 Winners
Ph.D. Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Nusaiba Baker | Biomedical Engineering | Oral Delivery of DNA-enzyme Nanoparticles Ameliorates Inflammation in a Murine Model of Ulcerative Colitis |
| Second Place | Francisco Quintero | Material Science & Engineering | Solid Lithium Batteries and How To Deal With A Diva |
| Third Place | Sourabh Jha | Mechanical Engineering | Enhancement of Cooling in Data Centers through Flags |
Master's Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Eugene Mangortey | Aerospace Engineering | Predicting the Duration and Coincidence of Ground Delay Programs and Ground Stops |
| Second Place | Tejas Rode | Music | Robotic improvisation of Indian classical music on marimba |
| Third Place | Keshav Bimbraw | Music | Imparting Expressivity and Dynamics to percussive musical robot Shimon |
| People's Choice | Megan Tomko | Mechanical Engineering | Academic Makerspaces: Sites of Learning for Women Students |
2017 Winners
Ph.D. Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Jingting Yao | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Enhanced Diagnostic Cardiac Imaging with Lower Risks |
| Second Place | Shushruta Surappa | Mechanical Engineering | Ultrasound Based Wireless Power |
| Third Place** | Kelly Michie | Biology | Gotta Screen ‘Em All: Discovering Bacterial Genes Required for Wound Infection |
| Third Place** | Alexis Noel | Mechanical Engineering | Grip, Grab, and Groom: Adhesion of Soft Biomaterials |
**We had a tie for third place in Ph.D.
Master's Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Vedant Metha | Nuclear Engineering | Boosting the Role of Nuclear Technology |
| Second Place | Richard Li | Interactive Computing | EarBit: Using Wearable Sensors to Detect Eating Episodes in Unconstrained Environments |
| People's Choice | Jayraj Joshi | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Natural Gas Purification Using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) |
2016 Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Monica McNerney | Bioengineering | Bacterial Biosensors: Low-cost, Field-friendly Nutrition Tests |
| Second Place | Tesca Fitzgerald | Human Centered Computing | Teaching Robots to Reuse Skills |
| Third Place | H.M. Bharath | Physics | Reading Out the Geometry from an Atom's Memory |
| People's Choice** | Aravind Samba Murthy | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Recovering Kinetic Energy Using Electric Motors |
| People's Choice** | H.M. Bharath | Physics | Reading Out the Geometry from an Atom's Memory |
**We had a tie for the People's Choice winner.
2015 Winners
| Place | Name | Major | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place | Jonathan Walker | Aerospace Engineering | Leaving Ancient Rocket Engines Behind |
| Second Place | Marian Hettiaratchi | Biomedical Engineering | Heparin Microparticles: A New Method for Bone Regeneration |
| Third Place and People's Choice | Pamela Grothe | Physics | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |