Cornell Cup winners

Four student teams from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science took home top prizes at the Cornell Cup, a college-level embedded design competition created to empower student teams to become the inventors of the newest innovative applications of embedded technology.

MEAM teams BionUX, DORA, and Mechanek secured three of the Cup’s seven first-place awards, which include $2,500 cash prizes, iPads, and an invitation to exhibit their technology at Intel’s booth at the 2015 San Mateo or New York City Maker Faire. Mechanek also won the Media Award, a $1,000 cash prize that goes to the team with the most professional website. Another MEAM team, BAM!3D, received one of seven second-place prizes, which include a smaller cash award and Kindle Fires.

Mechanek aims to improve a critical piece of car-racing gear: the HANS device—a harness that restrains a driver’s head and neck, preventing whiplash injuries and skull fractures. Team BionUX is working on a haptic feedback system for prosthetics, and Team DORA’s project involves building a new kind of “telepresence” robot. BAM!3D is developing a 3-D printer suspended from a balloon.

For a complete list of winners, go to www.systemseng.cornell.edu/intel.