Past Collegiate Inventors Competition Winners
Learn about the student inventors who have excelled in the Collegiate Inventors Competition®. You can search our past competition winners by name, year or university.
SuonoCalm: Device for the At-Home Rapid Administration of Therapeutics
Over 1.4 million people in the United States suffer from inflammatory bowel disease. Rectal delivery of medication can be an effective treatment but must be retained for hours or even overnight for greatest efficacy, something that is often impossible for patients. SuonoCalm is a device designed to deliver a wide range of medications directly into tissue using low-frequency ultrasound. Tests have shown superior drug absorption, and it takes just one minute.
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Carl Schoellhammer
Suspended Pivotal Bike Storage Rack
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Stephen B. Katsaros
SWAPS (Silicon Waveguide Array Photonic Switch)
While we might be saving trees because the need to print photos and documents has declined, “the cloud” is growing fast, and storing and accessing files or websites does consume energy. The SWAPS, a thumb-sized gadget, allows for full use of a data center’s bandwidth capacity by actively re-arranging the network pattern of “the cloud.”
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Sangyoon Han
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Tae Joon Seok
SwineTech
More than 116 million newborn piglets were accidentally crushed to death by their mothers on hog farms in 2016, resulting in billions of dollars lost. The SmartGuard system monitors the pitch, loudness, and duration of squeals and determines whether a piglet is in distress or just squealing as piglets normally do. When a piglet is in distress, the device sends a vibration to a wearable patch on the mother, prompting her to stand and free her piglet.
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Abraham Espinoza
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Matthew Rooda
System for the Detection of Aromatic Compounds in Combustion Effluents
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