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GRAND PRIZE WINNER

αScreen Fast and Cheap Bacteria Detection
Monika Weber, New Haven, CT
αScreen is the needed MEMS rapid pathogen screener for food-borne illnesses. It has a potential to improve health standards at the consumer level by increasing sensitivity, keeping the cost down and testing time short.

CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY

UVA+B Sunfreinds
Karin Edgett, Capitol Edge, Shahid Aslam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Washington, DC
The UVA+B SunFriend© featuring NASA UV sensor technology will provide health conscious individuals with an effective and inexpensive UVA and UVB monitoring aid to receiving healthier sun exposure

ELECTRONICS CATEGORY

iPecs Tech
Michael Leydet, College Park Industries, Fraser, Michigan
The College Park Industries iPecs® (Intelligent Prosthetic Endo-Skeletal Component System) is a medical research device which will provide researchers a tool to accurately measure human locomotion or gait parameters on users of lower limb prostheses.

MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CATEGORY

Hybrid Rotor Compressor for Natural Gas Extraction
Jeremy Pits, Pedro Santos, OsComp Systems, Boston, Massachusetts
By combining a novel rotary geometry with an innovative method for extracting heat from the system, OsComp's compressor 10% of the size of conventional machines and over 30% more efficient.

MEDICAL CATEGORY

XVIVO Organ Perfusion System
Chris Jaynes, Tom Taccini, Tim Klug, XVIVO Perfusion, Englewood, Colorado
The XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS) is a movile intensive care unit can repair damaged organs ex vivo (out of the donor's body) for successful transplantation into a waiting recipient.

SAFETY & SECURITY CATEGORY

AquaSonus Passive-Sonar Pool Alarm
William C. Roberts, Bob Hoenig, Paula Bailey, AquaSonus.com, Merrimack, New Hampshire
The AquaSonus Passive-Sonar System based on state-of-the-art digital signal processing; the use of low power and embedded microprocessors results in enhanced functionality, accuracy, reliability, and ease of installation and use.

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY

TO:CMA Spherical Generator
Angel Francisco Martinez, Delia Beatriz Martinez, Trupti Bulbule, Cornell University, Laredo, Texas
The TO:CMA Spherical Generator creates copious amounts of clean electricity out of ocean waves at costs below all major existing renewable energy sources.

TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY

Dynamic Aero-Shroud Oscillating Jen
Rebecca Farr, Endwell Daso, Victor Pritchett, Ten-See Wang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
This technology will enable new flight vehicle concepts and applications of supersonic and hypersonic flight.

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.