Ventureprise Launch NSF I-Corps Fall 2019 Alumni

American Paperless Receipt

American Paperless Receipt’s goal is to provide an e-receipt service to companies in the hope of eliminating paper receipts for good! Its service gives companies an opportunity to eliminate waste. Companies will also experience a better relationship between their suppliers and their customers.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Justin Webb

Entrepreneurial Lead, Patrick Smith

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Mohannad Behnejad

Belk College of Business

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


Bobcat MTRT HydroPower

The technology brought forward by this team of engineers is a new type of pico hydropower plant that utilizes a magnetic transmission to reduce the failure modes and maintenance requirements of traditional small hydropower plants. It does this by eliminating the mechanical seal in the system which is subject to wear-based failure. The development of this technology would introduce a more reliable pico hydropower system to the market which would allow for lower-cost energy production.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Wesley Williams

Entrepreneurial Lead, Casey Nichols

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Corey Conner

The William States Lee College of Engineering

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Fern Road

Fern road is an automobile and traffic safety device. It is based on vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication. Fern road predicts and prevents automobile accidents.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Wei Gao

Entrepreneurial Lead, Stephen Welch

Entrepreneurial Lead, Michael Luffman

Entrepreneurial Lead, Lawrence Battle

Entrepreneurial Lead, Otto Klahn

The William States Lee College of Engineering


GoGait

The concept for GoGait Team is a portable gait analysis of the trunk. The system will include a belt-like strap that attaches the mobile camera onto the subject and the software that analyses the captured video to produce the results. When validated by the Vicon Nexus system, the concept will provide an inexpensive, mobile, and comprehensive alternative for upper body gait analysis.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Nigel Zheng

Entrepreneurial Lead, Hannah Stokes

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Susan Traulsen

The William States Lee College of Engineering

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Health Tech

Tuberculosis (TB), a highly infectious disease, is most prevalent in low-middle income countries. TB can be treated more efficiently if detected in a timely manner. However, the delay caused in timely detection results in the majority of the population not being treated and cured efficiently. The Health Tech team explores possible technology options that can assist in timely detection and effective patient care for susceptible populations.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Monika Sahney

Entrepreneurial Lead, Aditi Rojatkar

Entrepreneurial Lead, Adwait More

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Armairany Aguirre

College of Health and Human Services

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Intelligent Comfort System (ICS)

The objective of this product is the development of a building controlling framework in a user-centered and integrated approach to provide occupants with the best indoor environmental condition. The system will learn human behavior and adapt itself to the environment over time to request the least interaction from the occupant in the future. The product will deal with controlling a personal thermal zone that is under the influence of a personal diffuser and modules of dynamic shading, in addition to controlling small shared spaces to provide the best possible comfort for everyone.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Mona Azarbayjani

Entrepreneurial Lead, Roshanak Ashrafi

Entrepreneurial Lead, Amir H. Zarrabi

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Isaac Parker

College of Arts and Architecture

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Imperium Electronics

Imperium Electronics team has developed a revolutionary new technology that will change the way devices are powered. From applications such as PV micro-inverters, power for computing data centers, to xEV power train applications, Imperium Electronics ‘s new transformerless isolation power supply technology will eliminate the bulky and outdated transformer that has existed for over one hundred years.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Manhav Manjrekar

Entrepreneurial Lead, Clint Halsted

The William States Lee College of Engineering


INGENIUS GRID

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan

Entrepreneurial Lead, Nirmal Nair

Entrepreneurial Lead, Aravind Ingalalli

The William States Lee College of Engineering


Niner Radar

Time is the student’s most precious commodity. However, most of it goes wasted because of the unnecessary travel due to traffic congestion. Niner Radar offers a website that provides real traffic data.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Terence Fagan

Entrepreneurial Lead, Anthony DeCenzo

Entrepreneurial Lead, Matthew Krawiec

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Tristin Fields

College of Computing and Informatics

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Plavana

An interdisciplinary collaboration involving humanities principles of immersive learning and culturally integral experiencing through technological mediation. Movement is at the center of this investigation. Dance and virtual reality come together as art and technology to create a unique experience in an accessible manner questioning the mystique around it.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Kaustavi Sarkar

Entrepreneurial Lead, Dr. Julio Bahamon

Entrepreneurial Lead, Aisha Cannon

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Nada Esmaeel

College of Arts and Architecture

College of Computing and Informatics

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Trace

There are limited resources available to pulmonary patients who either have been hospitalized or who finished pulmonary rehabilitation to continue to be advised on appropriate exercises to maintain their health and avoid readmission. Our product will leverage an existing patented method to determine respiratory compensation from indirect calorimetry data. We will use regression analysis to create predictive models to generate appropriate exercise guidance which will be integrated into a smartphone application to track exercise and provide data to medical records systems.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. David Bellar

Entrepreneurial Lead, Joseph Matesich

Entrepreneurial Lead, Kim Clark

Entrepreneurial Lead, Brian Ring

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Nico Menzel

College of Health and Human Services

College of Computing and Informatics

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences


Water Kit

Hydrogen peroxide is used in water and wastewater treatment and is becoming more common in treatment processes with increasing water quality challenges. There is no commercially available kit to quickly measure hydrogen peroxide at water treatment concentrations. In this project, we design a kit that will provide an easy and safe method to measure the hydrogen peroxide accurately.

Team Members:

Academic Lead, Dr. Olya Keen

Entrepreneurial Lead, Fateme Barancheshme

Co-Entrepreneurial Lead, Aydin Thomas

The William States Lee College of Engineering

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences