Student Prize Winners

Recycling systems to transform PET plastic waste

PhonoGraft: Biomimetic eardrum grafts

Prenatal liquid biopsy tests

Innerva: A conical nerve conduit

Variable volute water pump

Grain Weevil: Grain extraction and bin management robot

Adventus Robotics: Autonomous wheelchair technology

Augeo: A cryogel polymer-based embolization solution to treat hemorrhaging patients

Neptune Plastics, Inc.: Biodegradable Plastic

Syn-SCOBY: a smart pollutant-sensing filter and DEPCOS for ultra-safe water applications

Modal Propellant Gauging (MPG): A system that provides real-time fuel gauging for aircraft and spacecraft

Chemical reactors for sustainable chemical processes and an optimized system for energy storage and hydrogen production

Healthcare advances for amputees that restore a sense of touch and better mobility

Ithemba: A reusable, low-cost, contamination-free breast biopsy device

The BioEnergy Project – Repurposing Food Waste

AlterEgo, a non-invasive-peripheral-nerve computer interface and ISGEC platform

SMART Conductor and Enhanced Optical Fiber Sensors

Callascope, a cervical cancer diagnosis device and a smartphone algorithm to classify cervix images

Portal Entryways: A wireless device that opens disabled-accessible doors

Electrochemical Water Purification Technology and Chlorine Generator

Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector (EMPAD) and Low-Cost airSTEM

Charged Polymers for Sticky Agricultural Sprays, and Water Recovery in Cooling Towers

All Photons Imaging and FemtoPixel

Novel Device to Revolutionize Eye Corneal Transplants

N-Stent: Daily-Wear Nasal Breathing Aid

Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) and Pollex Grasp

Innovative Biomaterials-based Strategies to Combat Autoimmune Disease

Contact-Printed Nano-membrane Transducers for Sound Production

Novel Proteins to Fight Superbug Bacterial Infections

WheelSense: An Open-Source Smart Add-On System for Wheelchairs

A Small, Mid-Air-Deployable, Folding Electric Drone, and Adaptable Aircraft Manufacturing (AAM) Architecture

SwineTech: SmartGuard Device – Real-time health analysis for farmers

Tactile: A Real-Time Text-to-Braille Converter

Solar-Powered Desalination System for Off-Grid Water Production in India and Gaza and Usage Sensor for Household Water Treatment Devices

Method to Design a Better Prosthetic Foot

SignAloud: Gloves that Transliterate Sign Language into Text and Speech

Better Connections between Humans and Plants on Earth and in Space

Autism Glass Project

Highlight: A Powdered Additive for Disinfectants

Superhuman Visual Systems to Capture Light

The First High-Performance, Lightweight Clutchless Hybrid Transmission

The World’s First Completely Automated Restaurant

Enhancing Pain-Free Drug Delivery in Patients via the Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract

Respiratory Solution for Premature Infants around the World

Connecting “Hidden” Vehicle Data with a Cloud-based Platform to Create Powerful and Transformative Applications

The Next Dimension of 3D Printing

Game-changing Innovation to Help Solve the Global Food Scarcity Challenge

Designed next-generation wearable mechanical interfaces that improve comfort for amputees

Reconfigurable Forming Tools – Looking Beyond 3D Printing

GlucoSense: A low-cost glucometer and strip system for diabetics in resource-poor settings

Automated 3D printing for the classroom

Inventor of medical devices that are making surgical procedures less invasive

Invented the first-ever solar cells fabricated on everyday substrates

Invented a humanized mouse with a tissue-engineered human liver

Invented a ground-breaking method for three dimensional genome sequencing called “Hi-C”.

Developed a new class of therapeutics that provides more precision to cancer ablation.

Invented processes to combat bacterial infections by enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics at killing bacteria

Invented the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender

Invented the Transition; a personal air vehicle

Innovations in stroke and cancer treatments

Invented low-cost device for manufacturing eyeglass lenses, electronic rope and recyclable 3D LEGO chocolate printer

Developed 'swarm' microrobots based on the principles of nature to carry out real-world tasks.

Designed a low-cost aerial surveillance system that utilizes a rocket

Created a universal nano-assembly machine

Designed a motorized hammermill

Designs and builds implantable microelectrodes to facilitate sensory feedback in prosthetic limbs

Black Falcon—a tool for minimally invasive surgery.

Invented the HydroRail™ —a modular hydrostatic bearing for machine tools; and the Pass-It™

Invented the Fastap™ keypad, formerly known as OneTouch™

Invented PHANTOM 3-D Touch interface for computers