Mechanical Engineering's 3MT Competition

Participants:
 

• First Place: Ebuka Ezugwu - "Stronger pipes, cleaner water: A Branching Solution"
• Second Place: Michaela Andrews - "Shape Memory Polymer Yarns Make Compression Therapy Move"
• People's Choice: Vamsy Kota - "Tracking Behavior; Unlocking the Brain"
• Kimberly Gustafson - "A More Effective Exercise Machine for People with Paraplegia"
• Ruturaj Badal - "To Intervene or Not to Intervene?"
• Mohammad Hasan Mokhtarabadi - "A motor that rotates AND levitates!"
• Merin A.P. - "The Billion-Dollar Swirl : Improving productivity in the Process Industry"
• Tasnim Akbar Faruquee - "Improving Carbon Nanotubes production by laser diagnosis"
• Lily Watkins - "At-Home Monitoring of Aortic Aneurysms"
  
   

Judges:

• Andrew Alegria - V.P. of Robotics and Co-founder, Objective Biotechnology
• Steven Fredericks - Senior Research Engineer, WinField United
• Christine McCool - Advanced Product Development Specialist 3M Company

Participants:
 

• First Place & People's Choice: Pauly Soulia - "Mní Wičóni: Water is Life
• Second Place: Abdullah Al Mehedi - "Can We Replace Lung Function in Acute Hypoxia"
• Nikitha Lakshmanan - "Improving In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Procedures Using a Virtual Design Environment"
• Mehrta Farsad - "Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's Disease"
• Michaela Andrews - "Shape memory Polymer Yarns Make Compression Therapy Move"
• Ruturaj Badal - "Multiscale Analysis of Arterial Growth and Remodeling"
• Sathya Aswath Govind Raju - "Data-driven Modeling & Control Framework for Multi-fuel Compression-ignition Engines"
• Ali Mohammad - "Immunotherapy: A New Way to Treat Invasive Cancer Types"
• Umberto Costa Bitencourt - "Ocean Waves and Bubbles: The Discreet Architects of Earth's Breath"
• Ibrahim Oladepo - "Beyond Restraint: Investigating the Cerebellum in Freely Moving Mice"
• Lily Watkins - "Predicting Aortic Aneurysm Growth Quickly and Cheaply"

Judges:

• Beau Farmer - Chief Technology Officer, TSI Incorporated
• Samantha Hill - Senior Research Engineer, Center for Energy and Environment
• Ben Hoxie - Senior Director, Danfoss Power Solutions

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Participants:
 

• First Place & People's Choice: Carolyn Bernemann - "Affordable Home Dialysis in Low-Income Countries"
• Second Place: Hyewon Lee - "Ammonia as a Hydrogen Carrier"
• Jackson Wills - "Clean Energy from Ocean Waves"
• Tanubhav Srivastava - "Mitigating Forever Chemicals in Ground Water Using Plasma"
• Clifford Goertemiller - "Burning Ammonia - a No-Fuss Approach"
• Ian Song - "Renewable Energy from Beer and Chips"
• Saravanan Sujit Kaarthik - "3D Printing Tiny Pipes and Valves"
• Ting-Wei Chen - "Reducing Co2 Emissions in Aircraft Proulsion Systems"
• Beatriz de Souza - "Self-Limiting Bacterial Growth in Hydrogels"
• Shubham Dongarwar - "Can Plasma help us Create a Healthier Environment?"

• Lakshya Gangwar - "Can We Preserve Organs to Save Lives!"

   

Judges:

• Katie Krueger-McCuen - Senior Platform Systems Engineer, Thermo King-Trane Technologies
• Biswaranjan Mohanty - Staff Scientist, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota
• Ann Sheldon - Retired Vice President of Product Security, Medtronic
• Daniel Thomas - Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Dunwoody College of Technology

Participants:
 

• First Place: Berik Kallevig - "How to Drive Faster and Further on Mars"
• Second Place: Nitish Ponkshe - "Morphing Head of an Underground Burrowing Robot"
• People's Choice: Srivasupradha Ramesh - "Using Cryopreservation to Beat the Valley of Death"
• Zonghu Han - "Save more organs, save more lives"
• Travis Beckerle - "Robots to Improve Brain Research"
• Pin-Hao Cheng - "Iron-Mouse: Robot Suit for Mice"
• Fatih Evren - "Next-Generation Thermostat: Energy Efficiency + Comfort"
• Saravanan Sujit Kaarthik - "Tiny Valves and Pipes for Tiny Volumes of Fluid - Also, They're 3D Printed!"
• Hamidreza Alai - "Honk! Honk! Please Don't Hit Me!"
• Arun Cherkkil - "Neurotechnologies for Mapping the Brain"
• Chinmay Purohit - "How AI Can Be Used to Save Our Teeth"

Judges:

• Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani - Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer, Seagate Technology
• Marie Johnson - CEO, LoonMD
• Mark Sanders - Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota

Participants:
 

• First Place: Amey Joshi - "Robots to Accelerate Biological Research"  
• Second Place: Yaling Liu - "Transparent Solar Panel: Luminescent Solar Concentrator"
• People's Choice: Iaroslav Makhenko - "Don't Let Pesticides Fly Away"
• Merin A.P. - "How to Mitigate Volcanic Disasters!"
• Andrew Alegria - "Reimaging Microinjection"
• Weiqi Chen - "Using Aerosols to Create Nano-scaled Membranes to Boost Particulate Filter Performance"
• Joe Kangas - "Preserving life by Transformation to Glass"
• Yilin Liu - "'Pregnancy' Test for Covid-19"
• Ali Nouriani - "Wearable Analysis of Postural Instability in Parkinson’s Disease"
• Jeremy Simmons - "Fresh Water from Waves"
• Ben Szot - "Cost Effective Dialysis for Developing Countries"
• Zhenming Xie - "Vehicle Tracking with Low-Cost Sensors"
• Ning Ye - "Understanding How the Orthodontic Aligners Work"

Judges:

• Carla Pavone - Program Director and Co-PI, MIN-CORPS, University of Minnesota
• Kathleen Stenersen - Senior Director, R&D, Medtronic
• QingHui Yuan - Director, Modeling & Data Science, Donaldson Company, Inc.

Participants:
 

• First Place: Daniel Thomas - "Green Ammonia Fuel"
• Second Place: Jeff Bies - "Making Iron Man Suits Real"
• People's Choice: Adithan Kannan - "Can 'Power' Plants Trap Co2?"
• Krishna Chandra Bavandla - "Is Geothermal Energy the Future?"
• Akash Dhotre - "Can We Control Jet Mixing?"
• Yusra Farhat Ullah - "Muscle Powered Walking After Spinal Cord Injury"
• Mahsa Mirzaee - "The Path to Fight Dementia..."
• Eric Mohr - "Saving the Planet One Hybrid Wind Turbine at a Time"
• Sankar Muthukrishnan - "A Better Way to Cool Data Centers"
• Zahra Navabi - "A Remote-Control Receiver for Deep Brain"
• Ruitao Su - "3D Printing Multifunctional Devices"
• Heng Wang - "Mu-Metal Based Electromagnetic Position Sensors"

Judges:

• Tom Corrigan - Senior Research Specialist, 3M Company
• Thomas Fisher - Director, Minnesota Design Center, College of Design, University of Minnesota
• Ann Sheldon - Vice President of Product Security, Medtronic

Participants:
 

• First Place & People's Choice: Nitish Ponkshe - "Bio-Inspired Penetration Head of a High Force Soft Robot"
• Co-Second Place: Aliza Abraham - "Using Snow to Visualize the Air Flow in the Wake of a Wind Turbine"
• Co-Second Place: Kevin Eschen - "Smart Fabrics, Smart Compression and More"
• Daniel Escobar-Naranjo - "Oscillating Wind Turbine Blades for More Energy!"
• Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani - "3D Printed Smart Organ Models"
• V. S. Santosh K. Kondeti - "Plasma-Liquid/Solid Interaction: From Polymer Etching to Wound Healing"
• Dustin Lattery - "Magnets and Lasers"
• Chia-Hsing Pi - "Using Machine Learning to Improve Cryopreservation"
• Tianyi Li - "On the Birth and Evolution of Mysterious Ocean Waves"
• Zhaohan Li - "Bright and Nontoxic Silicon Quantum Dots"
• Keyan Liu - "Can We Make IC Engines Greener?"
• Kevin Mallery - "Holograms: Science Fact not Fiction"
• Sankar Muthukrishnan - "A Better Way to Cool Data Centers"
• Ankit Saini - "How to Boil Water More Effectively using Fractals"
• Emma Schinstock - "Evaluating the Heart from Beat to Beat" 

Judges:

• Thomas Fisher - Director, Minnesota Design Center, College of Design, University of Minnesota
• More Rosenberg, MD - Vice Dean of Education & Academic Affairs, Medical School, University of Minnesota
• Christopher Cramer - Vice President for Research, College of Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota