2014 Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Robotic Building Construction by Contour Crafting
Behrokh Khoshnevis
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY WINNER

The Polariton Interferometer - a Novel Inertial Navigation System
Frederick Moxley
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Honorable Mention:

New Class of High L/D Multi-Rotor VTOL Aircraft
Gregory Heinen
Tierra Global
Lowell, MA, USA

Intermittent Fault Detection & Isolation System (IFDIS)
Ken Anderson
Universal Synaptics Corp.
Roy, UT, USA

AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY WINNER

Continuously Variable Displacement Engine
Steve Arnold
Engine Systems Innovations
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA

Honorable Mention:

3000 Mile Capacitor Powered Electrical Vehicle
Denny Wheeler
Crystalline Energy Research Co.
Nampa, ID, USA

Lestran Orbital IVT Transmission
Hans Peter Hemmer
ASTREMO
Sankt Augustin, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY WINNER

NanoFab Lab...in a Box!
Michael Zach, Anirudha Sumant, and Jonathan Moritz
EChem Nanowires
Stevens Point, WI, USA

Honorable Mention:

Quikiks - The First Totally Hands-Free Supportive Footwear
Steven Kaufman
Hands-Free, LLC
New York, NY, USA

GateKeeper: A Bluetooth Low Energy Proximity Lock for your Computer
Siddharth Potbhare
CoolCAD Electronics
College Park, MD, USA

ELECTRONICS CATEGORY WINNER

A Paradigm Shift for SMT Electronics: Micro-Coil Springs Interconnection for Ceramic and Plastic Grid Array Packaged Integrated Circuits
Jim Hester and Mark Strickland
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL, USA

Honorable Mention:

Wireless Bluetooth Pressure Transducer
Mark McDaniel, Rob Matthes, Dave Topmiller, and RJ Lin
Transducer Direct
Cincinnati, OH, USA

High Power, Medium Voltage Compensator of Voltage Sags and Short Time Interruptions of Voltage at Power Grid with an Energy Storage Implemented as Battery of High-Voltage Supercapacitors
Tomasz Rawinski, Jan Iwaszkiewicz, Eugeniusz Owiec, Krzysztof Zymmer, Piotr Boguslawski, Leszek Dabowski, Aleksander Milak, Jacek Perz, Mariusz Pilecki, Ryszard Strzelecki and Leszek Wolski
Electrotechnical Institute
Gdansk, Poland

MACHINERY/AUTOMATION/ROBOTICS CATEGORY WINNER

Automatic Eye Finder & Tracking System
Rikki Razdan, Alan Kielar, Pat Stearns, and Melissa White
ISCAN Inc.
Woburn, MA, USA

Honorable Mention:

PARS Rescue Robot
Amin Rigi, Hossein Saffari, Amin Mirakhorli, Masood Norozi, and Saeid Talebi
RTS Lab
Tehran, Iran

Mosolver = Motor + Resolver
Donald Labriola
Quicksilver Controls
Covina, CA, USA

MEDICAL CATEGORY WINNER

HemeChip for Early Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease
Yunus Alapan, Ryan Ung, Megan Romelfanger, Asia Akkus, Connie Piccone, Jane Little, and Umut Gurkan
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

Honorable Mention:

ProstaGlove
Christopher LaFarge
MedicaMetrix
Wayland, MA, USA

UroCycler Automatic Bladder Management System
David Flinchbaugh
Tech Applications International
Orlando, FL, USA

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES CATEGORY WINNER

Ecovent Systems - Making Every Room the Right Temperature
Dipul Patel, Yowl Kelman, Nick Lancaster, Shawn Rose, and Brian Bowen
ecovent
Boston, MA, USA

Honorable Mention:

Direct Solar Energy Conversion to Electricity by Low Cost Nanometer Scale Metal-Insulator-Metal Tunnel Diode Serving as a Rectifier in Rectenna Arrays
Nikolai Kislov
Nano CVD Co.
Tampa, FL, USA

Displacement Diesel Consumption with High Altitude Wind Energy from the Altaeros Buoyant Airborne Turbine (BAT)
Ryan Holy, Ben Glass, Adam Rein, Chris Vermillion, and Ephraim Lanford
Altaeros Energies
Somerville, MA, USA

TOP TEN MOST POPULAR ENTRIES

Avhiral
Pilato David
Poitou-Charentes, France

Survival Capsule
Julian Sharpe, Scott Hill, and Eddie Bernard
Survival Capsule, LLC
Mukilteo, WA, USA

Green Cruzer
Thomas Tom, Joanna Joy, Thomas Chacko, and Shruthi Lokanathan
ThomasTom
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Tea Harvester
Ranjit Kumar Das
Guwahati, Assam, India

Magnetic Engine
Nikhil Raj, P.K. Shahu, and Vishwa Mohan
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Equipment for Iron Filing Estimation in Tea
Jatindra Nath Kalita
Tea Research Association
Jorhat, Assam, India

A Solar Chimney Power Plant with a Pyramidal Shape
Dardan Klimenta, Joan Peuteman, and Jelena Klimenta
University of Priština
Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia-Montenegro

Iron Filing Extractor
Jatindra Nath Kalita
Tea Research Association
Jorhat, Assam, India

Automatic Ankle Adjustment for a Prosthetic Leg
Saketh Sai Narayana
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Gear Lever Mounted Clutch
Mahesh Narayan Wagh, Anil Vishal Ramteke, Shirish Shaunak Deshpande, Vinesh Shaneel Kaia, and Bhimrao Akshay Sawant
IKSC
Savedi, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India