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Load Bearing Bone Ceramic (LBC)

Team Members

David Javier (Biochemistry),
Rahul Prashar (Mechanical Engineering)

Product

Silicon Carbide Evolution

Team Members

Mike Breier (Business),
Scott Evans (Mechanical Engineering),
Eric Salys (Business),
Donnie Vanelli (Engineering)

Silicon carbide is one of the world's hardest and most chemically resistant substances. In fact, silicon carbide is used to cut and grind the toughest steels. Unfortunately this also makes it extremely difficult to manufacture or mold into component parts. These factors have limited silicon carbide's acceptance to high cost structure, high precision production processes. Si2C Evolution has a novel technology to rapidly manufacture reaction-bonded silicon carbide parts. You give us a 3-D CAD file and we ship you your finished part.

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Betalain

Team Members

Jason Avent (Botany),
Neel Naik (Business),
Matthew Poplawski (Electrical Engineering)

Betalain is a natural antioxidant made by beets, cactus, and many other plants. These yellow, orange, red, and red-violet pigments become brown when they quench free radical reactions. Purified, standardized betalain could be incorporated into foods, cosmetics, or pharmaceuticals as a freshness indicator. Current expiration date systems simply use age without considering other causes of product spoilage. Light, heat, metals, oxygen, age, and microbes all produce free radicals that will cause color change in betalain. The color of the product will be compared to a similarly colored label; this color match will correlate with freshness.

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ClassGrabber

Team Members

Chris Lamprecht (Mathematics and Computer Science)

The Classgrabber Registration Agent is a software agent that automatically registers university students for the classes they want. When a class is full, the Registration Agent monitors the class continuously until it opens up. The Agent can also run unattended, so students can leave it running while they do other things. In addition, it can automatically identify and execute swaps between students, allowing the most efficient use of limited class resources.

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Sigma Imaging

Team Members

Jeff Carpenter (Colorado State, Computer Science),
Richard Heller (Electrical & Computer Engineering)

Sigma Imaging's novel medical imaging device combines a laser scanner with innovative software to capture the contours of a patients face. The software quickly generates a 3D image, to be used in the manufacture of a face mask. Rather than taking hours to create a plaster mold, our novel approach allows a face mask to be comfortably and safely created in a matter of minutes. Custom made medical face masks are essential for patients recovering from a variety of medical conditions including severe skin burns, sports injuries and reconstructive surgery. Conventional methods of creating custom face masks require the production of a plaster impression. This molding process is inaccurate, uncomfortable, extremely time consuming and often damaging to the wounds. Sigma Imaging will develop a portable, non-invasive, medical imaging device that creates a 3D model of a patients face. Based on this 3D model, a custom face mask can be produced in less time, with greater accuracy much cheaper.

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Big Picture

Team Members

Andrew Randono (Theoretical Physics)

The idea presented here exploits an optical illusion to create a periodic image (i.e. a wall-paper pattern) for use as an advertising display. The angle subtended by the periodic image in the viewer’s vision is independent of the distance of the viewer from the source as opposed to a conventional image display whose apparent image size is inversely proportional to the viewing distance. Thus, if a person viewing the periodic image at fifty meters sees an image that takes up ten degrees of his or her vision, when the viewer steps back to one hundred meters, the image will still take up ten degrees of his or her vision.

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Dasher Communicator

Team Members

Vitorio B. Miliano (Liberal Arts)

The "Dasher Communicator" is a new assistive communication device. Combining a unique predictive text input system with modern speech synthesis in a handheld form-factor, the result is an easy and efficient multi-lingual digital voice box for the severely disabled.

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Insanity-Defense

Team Members

John Pullicino (Electrical Engineering)

Insanity-Defense is an exciting new gaming interaction for any television shows or sports broadcast. Insanity-Defense is an infrared gun that interfaces with televisions and will enable the user to create digital bullet holes (shattered glass) on the screen as if the TV has been shot. Insanity-Defense permits the user to vent their frustrations towards TV shows or sporting events.

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Projectile Enhanced Communication System

Team Members

Sarosh Wahla (Cultural Anthropology),
James Zhang (Computer Science)

The Projectile Enhanced Communication System is a communication solution for urban combat that minimizes danger to deployed troops while remaining secure, reliable, and economically attractive.

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VisorTek

Team Members

Andrew Augustine (Engineering),
George Saito (Engineering)

Motorcyclists have to use a variety of costly helmet visors depending on the conditions outside. Visor Tek proposes a one-touch system to change your visor from clear to a dark color. Riders will be able to immediately adjust to changing light conditions.

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WAN Replication Engine

Team Members

Lei Gao Bio (Computer Science)

The WAN replication engine plays an essential role in the realization of the Internet edge services/computing. With the combination of software and proprietary hardware, it provides a powerful and flexible framework to facilitate the highly available and efficient delivery of modern Internet services and distributed applications. This technology replicates the distributed services geographically close to the end customers; therefore, it effectively masks network failures (or congestions) and improves services response time.

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Wireless Parking Auction

Team Members

Kaanchan Adhikary (Computer Science),
Chris Lamprecht (Mathematics and Computer Science)

Lack of current information at our fingertips can affect our financial standing and even our safety. Now, more than ever, people have the tools, such as cell-phones, to connect themselves to the entire world. What’s lacking is a wireless service that interconnects people to make the most of this existing technology. Our real-time wireless structure provides a solution to scarce-resource problems; problems such as finding parking, obtaining a concert ticket, or any update-reliant situation -- all within the grasp of a java enabled cell-phone.

Selig Fund in Entrepreneurial Studies

Roden Center of Entrepreneurship