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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics
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Structural Steel Strap-Nets & Extensions continuous frame reinforcing prevents and reduces structural failures in various force impacts and collisions.
Improves buildings, structures, vehicles, and containers survivabilities in tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and collisions. This also reduces injuries and loss of life and personal property.
MasterBrew coffeemaker controller offers advanced brewing features not available today. The controller uses a single micro-controller that directly drives a 1/3 bias, 4-backplane, 8-segment, LCD display. It has multiplexed push-button operation, three LED indicators, an audio annunciator, and relay control output.
This is an adjustable geometry prone recumbent bicycle. The bike is displayed in its "down" position. At low speeds it is "upright", allowing balance by aligning the riders hips over the pedals and the hands over the front wheel. At speeds over 30 mph,
A major problem for many people is getting good sleep. Poor sleep can occur in a home, a hotel or a hospital. Sleep is affected by light, sound, temperature, odor, bed support and sense of security. Another sleep related problem is that electrical control in bedrooms,
Grand Prize
Rowheel Wheelchair Propulsion System
Salim Nasser
A new invention could help millions of manual wheelchair users increase their mobility while decreasing upper body, repetitive stress injuries. Many who suffer from muscle pain, torn rotator cuffs, joint degeneration, and carpal tunnel syndrome due to muscle overuse will benefit from the Rowheel Wheelchair Propulsion System. This innovative design uses a pulling/rowing motion as opposed to the standard pushing motion.
Consumer Products Category
BreezeRite Air Filtration Module
Rob Luchsinger, Pipe Creek, Texas
Filter attaches to the leading edge of indoor ceiling fan blades and quickly eliminates airborne particulates, smoke, and odors.
Machinery & Equipment Category
Lift Pump
Eric Foy, Central Point, Oregon
A high-flow lift pump can be used to draw water from low lying areas and lift a few feet to fill a header tank or mobile water tender in a matter of a few minutes.
Medical Category
IDEA™ Enhanced Pulse Oximetry
Rodrigo E. Teixeira, Alton J. Reich, Stephen F. Malin, Huntsville, AL
The first noninvasive, convenient, and reliable way to measure the volume of blood pumped by the human heart -- a direct indicator of heart health.
Safety and Security Category
Digital Window Distributed Imaging Camera
Ellen Cargill, Peter Jones, Dennis Purcell, Boston, MA
The first stand-alone computational imaging system, able to stream and record in full-color high resolution throughout its 180° field of view, without fisheye distortion.
Sustainable Technology Category
Sustainable, Durable Bridges of the Future
Ibrahim Al-Khattat, Talacre, Wales, UK
A “green” technology that could revolutionize materials, design, and construction methods of bridges, this design offers a unique inherent capacity to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes, and flooding.
Transportation Category
Regenerative Braking Bike Front Wheel
David Swain, Frank Maurer, Jason Moore, Albert Shih, Ann Arbor, MI
A retrofit front-wheel for a bicycle that uses state-of-the art hydraulics to store braking energy for later release.
Read the press release announcing this year's winners.
View the top ten most popular entries.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's contest!
VP of Sales, NW USA
COMSOL, Inc
Palo Alto, CA
John Dunec received his PhD from Stanford University in 1983. John has over 25 years experience in product analysis, development and manufacturing, first with IBM, then with an early multiphysics startup, then running a product development consulting firm. John has experience with all phases of the development process: research, concept prototyping, formal product development, and refining a design for ease-of-manufacture. He has optimized production processes and designed mass-production tooling. John is currently VP of Sales, NW USA and Manager of COMSOL's Palo Alto office.
Manager, Product Design
Millipore
Danvers, MA
I have 13 years experience as a product designer with Millipore in the Bioscience division. We design and develop cutting edge tools and solutions for Life Science researchers. I have a BS in Physics and Mechanical Engineering with research focus on computational modeling. We have been using COMSOL for 3 years.
Engineering Project Manager
Lockheed Martin
Moorestown, NJ
BSME Worcester Polytechnic Institute
MSME University of Pennsylvania
Licensed Professional Engineer
Certified Manager
Over 24 years experience in aerospace & defense
Senior Systems Engineer I
Raytheon
Tucson, AZ
Electrical Engineer at Raytheon Company
Engineer
Solar Turbines
San Diego, CA
BS and MS Mechanical engineering San Diego State University
Professor for Mechanical Engineering SDSU, UCLA, USD
Math Prfessor SDSU, Santa Monica Cit College
Masters thesis in Biomechanical Engineering.
Currently a Industrial Gas Turbine Design Engineer, Solar Turbines Caterpillar
Past Chair ASME for San Diego 2008 and 2009
Member of ASM for San Diego
Specialize in Fatigue analysis methods and non-linear mechanics. Examples
are creep, crack growth, hyperelasticity. Also teach finite element courses
for ASME, UCLA and SDSU.
Work in material property database systems for high temperature alloys.
Work in computational analysis and modeling for mechanical design.
Judge the Greater Science and Engineering Fair for San Diego for the
past 12 years.
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