Engineering EXPO 2007

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We are pleased to announce the following recipients of awards at Engineering EXPO 2007:

Category 1: Medical Devices and Instrumentation

First Place
Device to Measure Perineal Pressures During Bicycling
Ali Husain, Ershad Forghani-Arani, Ryan Devon

Second Place
Heart Murmur Detector
Jovani Ibarra, Tenille Medley, Arnold Lee

Category 2: Cellular and Molecular

First Place
Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Through Nanotechnology
Lucy Trevino, Theresa Lo, Jason Ip, Benjamin Bick

Second Place
Extended Release of Cisplatin from a Polyacrylic Acid Hydrogel for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
Stephen Soong, David Sarcu, Martha Kidd

Category 3: Environmental, Health and Safety

First Place
City of the Future: Recycling Chicago's Water in 2106
Samantha Ebright, Arun Heer, Janet Shackelford, Zaki Ali

Second Place
CLA: Fat That's Good For Your Heart
Sansarng Riewchotisakul, Yevgenny Strashnov, Jesus Trujillo

Category 4: Assistive Technology

First Place
Wheelchair Innovation
Uday Sangar, Chubin Mei, Jerry Bwanhot, Peter Nicholas, Jan Sagun, Jin Bang

Second Place (Tie)
Communication Device Service Cart
Kevin Carrara, Adam Lewandowski, Peter Visser

Refreshable Braille Display
Vincent Arguelles, Fernando Garcia, Matthew Chan

Category 5: Process Design

First Place
BioButanol - Ethanol's Overlooked Cousin
Kristine Heideman, Dan Heideman, Heather Mayes

Second Place
Production of Synthetic Diesel from Waste Plastics
Mindy Truong, Barbara Augustynek, Sevasti Pyrovolikou

Category 6: Structure/Site Design

First Place
Olympic Aquatic Center
Sokol Lluri, Ryan White, Ingrid Oberle, Akash Surani

Second Place
Athletic Residence Halls for the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sean Pfeiffer, Steven Jeske, John Saraceno, Emily Druckrey

Category 7: Infrastructure Design

First Place
Try-Generation
Borko Andric, Nebojsa Kisic, Milos Stefanovic, Jaime Frausto

Second Place
Design and Implementation of a Monorail System Within the City of Chicago Dipak Patel, Dina Muller, Dave Miller, Michael Marczyk, Marat Goldenberg, Korinne Krych

Category 8: Materials Design

First Place
Evaluation of the Structural Behavior of Lightweight High Strength Reinforced Concrete Beams
Yogesh Patel, Nayankumar Patel, Deian Ivanov, Lukasz Pociecha, Daniel Tomicevic, Marcin Krok

Second Place
Development of High Strength/High Performance Lightweight Concrete
Dorin Bogdan, Romulus Atanasiu, Krysztof Piszczek, Marian Cotor, Elliot Gentry-Fernandez

Category 9: User Interface and Education

First Place
TypeMouse: Fully Functional Keyboard and Mouse in a Single-Handed Device
Wojciech Przeczkowski, Jeremy Kahsen, Robert Hanrahan, Benjamin Stef

Second Place
DIGITS: Digital Interface Glove Including Tactile Sensitivity
Jeff Kantarek, Emil Remolana, Christopher Kaczor

Category 10: Specialty Electronic and Signal Processing

First Place
Giant Marquee
Steven Mockus, Eric Gesell, Konstantin Khrustov

Second Place
SecondSight: Gun-Mounted Wireless Video Camera System
Kent Nelson, Mariam Pauls, Maciej Janiszewski

Category 11: Remote Control

First Place
Wireless Electronic Shelf Tag Display
Bryan Strysik, Sean Richards, Justin Jones

Second Place
System to Allow Easy Access to a Household
Adam Williams, Hafiz Tahiru, Boakye yiadom

Category 12: Mechanism and Device Design

First Place
Easter Seals Bike Project - Interdisciplinary Project Development
Jason Shiffler, Joseph Buchina, Joseph Martin, Christopher Steiner

Second Place
Increasing The Temperature Differential In A Vortex Tube
Christopher Anagnostopoulos, Stafanie Esposito, James Giannakis, Yulian Fille

Category 13: System Monitoring

First Place
RFID Based Inventory System
Peter Mazarakos, Paul Kuzich, Donald Keller, Antony Paul

Second Place
RFID Temperature System
Ken Fadera, Piotr Jedraszczak, Nate Ruengpinyophun

Category 14: Sports Equipment

First Place
Portable Nordic Walking Exercise Device
Georgios Zissimopoulos, Rolland Less, Christopher Naylon, Steven Parnell, Jesus Alvarez

Second Place
Determination of Optimal Vibration Frequencies for Sports Equipment
Alan Bautista, Nancy Rios, Ashley Selner

Visitor Ballot

Most votes from the Visitors Ballot

Nuclear Hydrogen
Environmental, Health and Safety
Syed Ahmed, Adam Nichols, Nirav Patel

Arlene Norsym Award

Most votes from students participating in EXPO

Nuclear Hydrogen
Environmental, Health and Safety
Syed Ahmed, Adam Nichols, Nirav Patel