Cornell Engineering has announced the winners of its 7th Annual Engineering Innovation Competition, designed to encourage and reward independent work from undergraduates working on innovative product concepts and prototypes outside the classroom. bottom.
David Putnam, Associate Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Cornell Engineering, said: “This competition allows award-winning students to continue their goals of bringing new products to market.”
Thirteen teams submitted written applications and short videos. Ten teams were selected from among them, and a final presentation was held in front of a panel of judges on March 24th.
Winners are:
AI Learner
The Ronald ’57 and Frédéric Fichtl ’86 Innovation Awards for the Most Innovative and Most Developed Concepts, Funded by Bert Kariski and Michele Kariski ’85, and the Ron G. Karmish ’88 Award for Implementing Complex Innovations Awarded to entries containing As a fully demonstrated physical prototype funded by Ron G. Kermish ’88.
AI-Learners is an educational technology platform that helps students with physical, cognitive, and behavioral challenges learn math through personalized online games and analysis. AI-Learners offers over 70 games from preK to 2nd grade to help students improve counting, manipulation, geometry and logical reasoning.
“AI-Learners is the first website specifically designed to meet the complex needs of students with physical, cognitive and behavioral disorders,” said Cornell Bowers, computer science student at CIS and AI-Learners Adele Smolansky ’23, CEO and Founder of “We follow the highest accessibility guidelines and use machine learning techniques to personalize the game to each student’s math level.”
In addition to Smolanski, team members included Juan Delgado ’24, Alexa Praha ’25, Isabel Pangestu ’24, Sahar Sami ’23, Sophia Tan ’23 and Alice Hlihorovic ’24.
MyUD
The Yunni and Maxine Pao Social Innovation Award is a multidisciplinary social venture funded by Carolyn Wang ’00 and Jeff Pao ’00 that has developed innovative solutions aimed at solving pressing global challenges. is given to
MyUD is a smart intrauterine device and an improvement over existing hormonal IUDs. The device alerts the user when the IUD has crossed a “safe” threshold or is in an unsafe position, letting the patient know when medical assistance should be sought to avoid serious complications. will notify you.
“Our device aims to give women the potential to have more control over their bodies and reproductive decisions,” said Danielle Frye ’23. “MyUD is for all women who currently use an IUD as long-term contraceptive, and for women who may consider getting an IUD in the future.”
The MyUD team consists of biomedical engineering students Molly Eron ’23, Frye, Katie McGarty ’23, Veronica Vila ’23, and Chenglin Zhu ’23.
Global Action Impact Association
The Yunni and Maxine Pao Social Innovation Award is a multidisciplinary social venture funded by Carolyn Wang ’00 and Jeff Pao ’00 that has developed innovative solutions aimed at solving pressing global challenges. is given to
The Global Action Impact Association (GAIA) is a national competition that empowers university students to design and implement high-impact solutions for global sustainability, turning academic theory into tangible impact. In the first year, GAIA will fund the travel and materials costs for the winning team to carry out its wind turbine design in Peru.
The GAIA team consists of Mohamed Aden ’23, M.Eng. ’23, Mark Taraji, ’24, Rebecca McCabe Ph.D. ’26, Lauren Chuta ’26.
“Our future plan for GAIA is to have chapters in every university so they can compete in this national competition and actually run their own prototypes in developing countries. ”said Tarazi, a mechanical and aerospace engineering student. “Scoring of the competition is based on the impact of how much the prototype will impact the real community. In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the topic changes each year. It’s about college students coming together to implement solutions that have a big impact on the sustainability of the world to make it a better place.”
