2022 Winners

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