CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY

LED Cocoon Tent
Stephen Boynton, Orem, UT
A solution to the issues of jammed, snagged, worn out zippers and low visibility inside a tent at night.

MACHINERY/EQUIPMENT CATEGORY

Cargo Management System
Jeremy Connell, Blacksburg, VA
Innovative truck bed design increases functionality while maintaining normal usage.

MEDICAL CATEGORY

3D Ultrasonic Neuronavigation System for Image-Guided Brain Surgery
Ajay Mahajan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Murphysboro, IL
GPS-like system could help surgeons navigate through the brain to find and remove everything from tumors to bullet fragments easily, cheaply, and with hardly any cutting.

SAFETY & SECURITY CATEGORY

Personnel Beacon/Locator for Mine Workers
Joseph Hollmann, Spectral Biopsy, Kansas City, MO
Using ultrasonics and spread spectrum signaling, the PBL will help locate a trapped miner to within 10 feet.

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY

LEDTRICITY™
Ted Bristow, Creative Electric, Kailua Kona, HI
Combining unique wiring circuits and state-of-the-art components, the LEDRICITY system enables the use of extremely long, inexpensive wires to illuminate hundreds of thousands of LEDs.

TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY

Internally Radiating Impulse Structure (IRIS) Engine
Corban Tillemann-Dick, Tendix LLC, Denver, CO
The IRIS design overcomes some of the shortcomings of modern engines and dramatically improves fuel efficiency by fundamentally changing the geometry of the combustion chamber.

CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY

Universal Proprietary Water Purifying/Conditioning Multimedia for Bottled Water
Jim Jablonsky, J&M Associates, Hatfield, PA
Filter paper based on nanotechnology is inserted in the drinking cap of a bottle of water to inexpensively and easily remove heavy metals, arsenic, mercury, bad tastes, and odors.

MACHINERY/EQUIPMENT CATEGORY

Small Area Thin-Film Heat Flux Sensor
Mahmoud Assaad, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, OH
Novel sensor enables engineers to identify critical high-temperature zones within a tire structure to design safer tires for cars, trucks, and aircraft.

MEDICAL CATEGORY

Pediatric Vision Screener – Mark V
Kristina Irsch, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
The PVS simultaneously detects proper alignment and focus of infants’ eyes, enabling early detection of amblyopia or “lazy eye” – the leading cause of vision loss in childhood.

SAFETY & SECURITY CATEGORY

Electronic Fog, Frost, and Ice Prevention Technology
Don Skomsky, Integrity Engineering, Inc., West Chester, PA
Tested successfully on Mount Everest (mountain climbers’ goggles), this energy-efficient device predicts and prevents the formation of condensation, frost, and ice on any surface.

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY

Efficient Air Conditioner
Lindsay Meek, Perth, Australia
Meek’s design reduces power consumption 30% by replacing the traditional reciprocating compressor with a permanent magnet motor coupled to a scroll compressor.

TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY

Movito Electric Scooter
Tai Chiem, Melbourne, Australia
Designed for traveling short distances in and around cities, this sleek, environmentally friendly scooter features an electric in-wheel motor.

Managing Principal - Veryst Engineering, LLC
Needham, MA

Dr. Stuart Brown is currently managing partner of Veryst Engineering, an engineering consulting firm located in the Boston area. Veryst provides services in product design, manufacturing processes, and failure analysis. Dr. Brown's technical background includes mechanical engineering and materials science. Dr. Brown works regularly within the medical device and consumer products industries. His medical device work has involved catheters, guidewires, stents, electromechanical devices, and other cardiovascular and orthopedic devices. He also provides technical advice on consumer products, electronic and electrical components, and industrial equipment. Prior to founding Veryst Engineering, Dr. Brown was director of the Boston Office of Exponent, Inc. Before Exponent, Dr. Brown was on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has performed research in metal forming operations and other industrial processes, thin films, and MEMS.

Founder & CEO - Mattozetta Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

I have about 17 years of industrial experience in the VLSI Industry. Before founding Mattozetta Technologies, an Engineering Consulting & Technology Services Start-up, I worked at Cypress Semiconductor (Bangalore), PMC-Sierra (Bangalore), LSI (Bangalore), Metta Semiconductor (Bangalore), Lattice Semiconductor (San Jose), I2P (San Jose), Infineon Technology (Singapore), Western Digital (Singapore) & C-DOT (New Delhi) on different Management & Technical leadership roles & positions ranging from Research & Development Engineer to Sr. Design Engineering Manager. I also tought Electronics & communication related subjects to Engineering Students at the start of my Career.

Nagravision S.A. kudelski Group
Cheseaux, Vaud, Switzerland

I got master in science after graduating 1996 at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Currently working as a team manager in the mechanical R&D department. My current work is focused on CAD/CAM design of mechanics and electro-mechanics. Machining prototypes in our workshop is also an activity so is the use of raytracing software in an early design stage. I'm also dealing with EMI compliance for some of our products.

Hobbbies: R/C cars, making music, photography

Senior Engineer - Micron Technology Inc.
Boise, ID

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Principal Systems Engineer - Medrad Inc. (A Bayer Affiliate)
Indianola, PA

Sriram Sambandamurthy is a Principal Systems Engineer designing medical device products specifically RF Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner systems. He has a Doctoral degree with over 16 years of research and industrial experience primarily in RF, electro-magnetics, antenna design and medical device R&D. He has 1 patent publication, 2 patent applications and authored several Conference and technical publications and won numerous awards. He is passionate to create novel, innovative designs and bring conceptual ideas into products that make significant impact to the end user and played a key role in bringing numerous medical device products to the market. His skill-set includes Systems Engineering, Project Management, and Sustainability Engineering.

Senior Mechanical Team Leader - Motorola
Horsham, PA

Carl Gomes is a mechanical design engineer with several years experience using solid modeling software to design consumer electronics packaging. Experienced at electro-mechanical packaging of consumer electronics such as residential telephones, business telephones, cordless phones, cellular phones, lighting controls, telephone and cable TV outside plant equipment, and cable TV set top boxes. He's been a active member of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is currently a mentor of FIRST Robotics Team 708.

Mechanical R&D Engineer - Agilent Technologies
Wilmington, DE

Rich has been working for Hewlett-Packard and then Agilent Technologies all 29 years since graduating from MIT in 1981. At home, I enjoy building rock walls, rock climbing, volunteering with Appalachia Service Project, and drinking fine wines.

Sr Escalation Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
Bellevue, WA

It has been 6.5 years for me at Microsoft, first 5 years as Embedded Engineer in Windows CE product and last 1.5 years in Windows Azure (Cloud OS) Project. I have overall 12 years experience in computer industry, in which 10 years in Embedded Softwares and about 2 years in Cloud Computing. I have extensive work experience with Embeded Silicon Vendors in Asia, i.e. Samsung, HTC, LG, ASUS, Toshiba, Casio, Sony, NEC, Hitachi, HP.

My work experience as following:

• 2004-Now - Microsoft Corporation
• 2001-2004 - ISR Corporation, Foster City USA and Tokyo Japan
• 2000-2001 - Breakaway Systems, Redwood Shores, CA
• 1999-2000 - Calsoft Corporation, San Jose, USA

I have passion for AstroPhysics and Radio Astronomy and I take some time off to fulfill my passion regularly.