Big Idea Challenge - Finalists
Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship
February 23, 2017
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (MRGN), Room 121
Description
| Presentation Time | Proposal Title | PI | College of PI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00-1:15 pm | A One Health Approach to Drive Success in New Cancer Therapies | Deborah Knapp | Veterinary Sciences |
| 1:20-1:35 pm | Affordable and Sustainable Solar Farms Enabled by Hybrid Inverse Big Data Modeling | Muhammad A. Alam | Engineering |
| 1:40-1:55 pm | Affordable Net Zero Housing and Transportation Solutions | Leigh Raymond, James Braun, Panagiota Karava, & Srinivas Peeta | Liberal Arts |
| 2:00-2:15 pm | Revolutionizing control of vector-borne infectious diseases | Catherine Hill | Agriculture |
| 2:20-2:35 pm | Center for Sustainable Materials – Connecting New Materials with the Real World | Yuan Yao | Agriculture |
| 2:40-2:55 pm | Confronting the Biodiversity Crisis: A Platform to Avert Critical Cultural, Social and Ecological Consequences of the Current Sixth Extinction Event | Bryan Pijanowski | Agriculture |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | Connected and Autonomous Transportation | Srinivas Peeta | Engineering |
| 3:20-3:35 pm | Harnessing Technology and Information Fusion to Enable Resilient and Sustainable Food-Water Balance Under Evolving Environmental Conditions | Dave Ebert | Engineering |
| 3:40-3:55 pm | Harvesting The Largest Untapped and Growing Digital Data Resource: Ubiquitous Global Camera Networks | Yung-Hsiang Lu | Engineering |
| 4:00-4:15 pm | Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable Agriculture and Use of the World’s Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century | Thomas W. Hertel | Agriculture |
| 4:20-4:35 pm | Multidisciplinary Efforts to Assess the Potential, Evaluate and Improve Candidates, and Encourage Utilization of Bacteriophage as an Alternative to Antibiotics in treating MRSA and Other Hospital Acquired/Wound Infections in Human and Veterinary Medicine | Sam Yingst | Veterinary Sciences |
| 4:40-4:55 pm | Nano-Manufactured Hybrid Nano-Electronic Systems for IoT Applications | Joerg Appenzeller | Engineering |
| 5:00-5:15 pm | Partnership for Individualized Medicine | Rex Reklaitis | Engineering |
| 5:20-5:35 pm | Photonics Science and Technologies for Security, Energy and Healthcare Applications | Yong Chen | Science |
| 5:40-5:55 pm | Realizing Next-Generation Smart Manufacturing | Nate Hartman | Polytechnic |
| 6:00-6:15 pm | Towards Cyber-Physical Vetting of Critical Infrastructures | Dongyan Xu | Science |
