2002 I2P® UT Austin Entries and Award-Winners

Eleven teams competed in the semi-final rounds, from which four teams were sent to the final round. Following are details on all of the entries.

Finalists

First Place

Product

Filtrolution

Team Members

Francisco Serna (Biomedical Engineering),
Kiley Miller (Chemistry)
Filtroution is an improved water purification process using state of the art surface modification technology. Filter surfaces are modified to selectively enhance removal of the most problematic contaminants at each water plant.

Second Place

Product

Amazing Screen

Team Members

Mark Cavazos (Architectural Engineering),
Matt Cavazos

Amazing Screen is designed to protect any building or structure made out of brick from insects, rodents, snakes, etc. from entering through the "Weep Holes".


Third Place (tie)

Product

WOOL

Team Members

Anuj Khare (Electrical Engineering),
Anupam Rostogi (Computer Science)

WOOL is an innovative wireless organizer and object locator. WOOL addresses the issue of time wasted in looking for small objects that have been misplaced the issue of time wasted looking for small objects that have been misplaced.


Third Place (tie)

Product

PaintMag PM-1

Team Members

Donnie Vanelli (Mechanical Engineering),
Daryl Wright (Law),
Ana Caroline Pereira (Business),
Jay Casey (Mechanical Engineering),
Eric Munn (Mechanical Engineering),
Mark Rangel (Mechanical Engineering)

The PaintMag PM-1 is a magazine-fed paintball gun with novel features not currently present on existing paintball guns.

 

Semi-Finalists

Product

ActiveIntersect

Team Members

Steve Wotring (Computer Science)

ActiveIntersect bridges the gap between disparate, hetergeneous databases facilitating time-sensitive actions when matches are made between a plurality of data sources.


Product

Capacitor-Doublet

Team Members

Kunal Jain (Computer Sciences),
Palkesh Jain (IIT Bombay, Electrical Engineering),
Sidhartha Goyal (IIT Bombay, Electrical Engineering)

Almost all electronic functions essentially require waveform shaping. This group proposes to do such waveform shaping by the use of conventional MIS capacitors.


Product

Electronic Journal

Team Members

Ali Nauman Niaz

Electronic Journal is an electronic diary that can be accessed through the web, pda or software on a personal computer. It will include a personal diary, calendar of dates.


Product

EnaBowl Bowling Device

Team Members

Anshuman Cherala (Mechanical Engineering),
Aparajit Pratap (Mechanical Engineering),
Dhruv Gajaria (Mechanical Engineering),
Sameer Kotasthane (Mechanical Engineering)

The EnaBowl Bowling Device is a recrational device for young people with severe/limited motor and mental disabilities to help them enjoy the experiences of bowling.


Product

EnTell

Team Members

Subramanyam Mallela (Computer Sciences),
Shiv Prasad Behera (University of Virginia, Computer Science),
Ravindra Jaju (IIT Bombay, Engineering)

EnTell, Inc. provides products aimed at keeping a companies critical internet related networks functioning at maximum capacity.


Product

Vista

Team Members

Kanhai Kapadia (Electrical & Computer Engineering),
Keyur Parekh (Computer Sciences)

Vista is a unique hardware & software solution to meet the point of sale and back office needs of the hospitality industry.


Product

xTracy

Team Members

Youngin Shin (Computer Sciences),
Anthony Thane (Electrical & Computer Engineering)

xTracy is a framework in which users can build and manage web contents based on their 'sematics'.


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