The I2P™ competition, held April 15 to 16, encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and helps match technologies resulting from the university’s research programs with potential markets. This year's entries were based on a variety of technologies, including nanotechnology, computer science, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, communications, and electromechanics. The competition was organized by the student Technology Entrepreneurship Society.
The first place team, consisting of Thomas Pate and Moss Shimek, mechanical engineering graduate students, presented “The Micro Dynamo,” an ultra-compact human-powered battery charger capable of recharging devices, and providing energy to soldiers in the field.
Ted Gaubert, a biomedical engineering graduate student, won second place for “Destruction of Cancerous Cells Using Magnetic Nanoparticles.” This product is a novel cancer therapy based on magnetic nanoparticles that locally destroy cancer cells.
Sudhir Kasturi and Archit Sanghvi, graduate students in biomedical engineering, and Ranjit Nayak, a graduate student of the MBA program in the McCombs School of Business, won third place for “ImmunoTrain Technologies,” which uses single injectable, multi-factor combinatorial, biomaterial formulations containing potent and critical molecules to train one’s own immune system in eradicating tumors and fighting infectious diseases.
Hyohoon Choi, biomedical engineering graduate student, won fourth place for “Automated M-FISH Karyotyping,” which provides means to visualize and analyze chromosomes to study cancers, genes, and genetic diseases.
Jignesh Shah, a biomedical engineering graduate student, won fifth place for “Instrument to Detect Rheumatoid (IDA),” which allows a user to detect rheumatoid arthritis by placing their fingers inside a machine.
John Neumann, electrical and computer engineering graduate student, won sixth place for “Forephase,” a small tracking system that records the real-time 3D trajectory of a golf ball in flight.
Email this article to a friend
About UT's Cockrell School of Engineering:
The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks among the top six public engineering schools in the United States. With the nation's fourth highest number of faculty elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, the School's more than 7,000 students gain exposure to the nation's finest engineering practitioners. Appropriately, the School's logo, an embellished checkmark used by the first UT engineering dean to denote high quality student work, is the nation's oldest quality symbol. The School maintains a Web site at http://www.engr.utexas.edu