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Paul S. Buccos | Senior Engineer | Varian Ion Implant |
Paul O. Davis | Senior Platform Engineer | GE Home & Business Solutions |
Tim Garner | Technical Fellow | Delphi |
Parag Gupta | Principal Engineer | Stryker |
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Carl Gomes | Senior Mechanical Team Leader | Motorola |
Kenneth Huening | Vice President, Automotive and Military | Maxim Integrated Products |
Michael Jammal | Program Manager | Rockwell Automation |
David Jorde | Senior Development Design Engineer | Solar Turbines, Inc. |
Pierluigi La Montagna | Industrial Designer -- EUR-ERG | Technip Italy S.p.A |
Paul Morgan | Senior Engineer | Micron Technology |
James Lauer | 6 Sigma Master Black Belt | Caterpillar, Inc. |
Anwei Liu | Mechanical Engineer | Newport Corp. |
Kamlesh Pande | Chief Consultant & Adjunct Professor | Forbes Marshall & IIT Bombay |
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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs across six continents. You can also join the innovators who dared to dream big and build a better tomorrow by entering this year’s contest.
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Over the past 20 years, many innovators have used the recognition afforded by the contest to advance the development and marketing of their technologies. We highlight some success stories of past winners who have brought their inventions to the marketplace.
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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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