Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.
Help build a better tomorrow
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 in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas today.
Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories
Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.
Click here to read moreA ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’
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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”
— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics
2010
Judges
R&D Project Manager
Consolidated Edison Co of New York, Inc
New York, NY
Patrick M. Duggan was born in New York City on February 3, 1947. He graduated from Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY in 1968. His employment experience has been with the Consolidated Edison Company of NY, Inc. He is currently an R&D Project Manager responsible for engineering, operations and maintenance related R&D projects for various Substation, Transmission and System Operations organizations, and assists specific efforts in additional areas, such as Cybersecurity, Con Edisonâ??s 3rd Generation System of the Future efforts, Transmission Risk Assessment and substation condition based maintenance and automation. Pat has held a variety of management and technical positions in Generation and Controls, Nuclear Power, Instrumentation and Controls, Project Management, Construction and Electrical Engineering. Patâ??s experience has included key roles in the development of fault current limiters, potential applications of superconductivity, as a member of IEEE NPEC and NPEC SC-6 on Safety Systems nuclear industry standards, regulatory interfaces, and a wide variety of major projects and programs. Pat is currently the Utility Chairman for EPRIâ??s Superconductivity Task Force and represents Consolidated Edison on the Board of the Coalition for Commercial Application of Superconductors and the Board and multiple Work Groups of the GridWise Alliance.
Chief Engineer, Materials & Fastener Engineering
Navistar
Fort Wayne, IN
Lead group that is responsible for all materials specification, testing and approval for Navistar commercial and military vehicles. 30+ years in Materials Engineering. Specialty is in non-metallic materials and composites.
| Jeff Crompton | Principal | AltaSim Technologies |
| Radu Beleca | Brunel University - Centre for Electronic Systems Research | |
| John Dunec | VP of Sales, NW USA | COMSOL |
| Mamdouh Salama | Engineering Fellow | ConocoPhillips Co. |
| Ron Pietrowski | Metallurgist | Consolidated Edison Co of New York |
| Mike Dawson | Team Leader - Cab Engineering | Daimler Trucks North America |
| Alberto Di Lullo | Flow Assurance Engineering Technologies Manager | ENI E&P Division |
| Neil Brooks | Nuclear Engineer | FirstEnergy |
| Alessandro Pagliantini | Lead System Engineer | General Electric O&G |
| Richard Cornwell | Staff Manufacturing Engineer | General Motors |
| Chira Deka | R&D Manager | IDEXX Laboratories |
| John Hoyle | Lead Engineer | Johnson Controls |
| Chris Scott | Manager, Product Design | Millipore |
| Mark Haferling | Senior Mechanical Engineer | Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne |
| Antonio Quintieri | Senior Engineer | Procter & Gamble |
| Scott Morris | Principal Project Manager | PTC |
| Dan C. Surber | Senior Principal Systems Engineer | Raytheon Technical Services Co. |
| Marvin A. Rossi | Epilepsy Neurologist & Physician Scientist | Rush University Medical Center |
| Mahmut Sengul | Production Technology Advisor | Schlumberger |
| Xabier Sanjuan | Senior Mechanical Engineer | Siemens Energy |
| James Powell | Engineer | Solar Turbines |
| Darrell W. Pepper | Professor of Mechanical Engineering | University of Nevada Las Vegas |
| James Potter | Program Manager-Hybrid Systems | ZF Industries |
| William T. Vetterling | Research Fellow | ZINK Imaging |
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