Innovation Day Awards 2024
Awards are made in three categories - Senior Design, Undergraduate Projects, Graduate Students. Congratulations to the following prize winners.
Senior Design
First Place
Automated Orthopedic Fixator
Michael McQuade, Noah Brown, Ian Padovani
Second Place
Furthering Healthcare Education Using the Breathe Easy Sim
Kyle Henry, Ethan Sprinkle, Maicol Zayas, Elisabeth Harris, David Gomez
Third Place
Tractor Beam
Jacob Crites, Jyotirmoy Sarker, Ngun Zel
Judges' Choice
Shape Morphing Aircraft Wing
Devang Tavkari, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Jason Tran, Abdullah Waleed
Undergraduates
First Place
Empowering the Future of Wireless Communication: A Comprehensive Exploration of srsRAN for 5G Open RAN Deployment and Beyond
Fuhad Foesal Ahmed, Tin Duc Ngo
Second Place
WoundWare: Automating In-Vitro Wound Identification, Localization, and Size with Convolutional Neural Networks
Malak Al-Noubani, Anne Alsup
Third Place
Evaluation of the Blended Wing Body Configuration for the Next Evolution in High-Performance Racing Sailplanes
Colin Agor, Cody Harris
Judges' Choice
TerraTracker
Nabeel Nayyar, Areeb Khan, Talha Nayyar
Graduate Students
First Place
Human-Robot Interactive System for Warehouses Using Speech, SLAM, and Deep Learning-based Barcode Recognition
Ayon Roy, Sama Nikanfar, Harish Ram Nambiappan
Second Place
Predictive Insights into User Satisfaction of a Parking App
Sai Sneha Channamallu, Apurva Pamidimukkala
Third Place
Flying Sensors: Using a Drone to Detect Micro-Urban Heat Islands
Junaid Ahmad
Judges' Choice
Design and Analysis of Reinforced I-Beam Lattice with Enhanced Energy Absorption
Twinkle Kothari
STEM Student Recognition
Autonomous Tracking Turret Aiming Coilgun Kinetics (A.T.T.A.C.K.)
Layth Ibrahim, Luis Sanchez, Daniel Cruz