The International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is an annual event sponsored by the Society for Science & the Public, in partnership with the Intel Foundation. For the last several years, INCOSE has given one of the Special Awards at ISEF to the student project which best reflects the application of systems engineering. Student winners are ninth through twelfth graders who earned the right to compete at the Intel ISEF 2014 by winning a top prize at a local, regional, state or national science fair.
In 2014, ISEF was held in Los Angeles, and the INCOSE team
of judges included four INCOSE Fellows (Dorothy McKinney from our SFBAChapter,
plus three INCOSE Fellows from the East Coast: Bill Mackey, Chandru Mirchandani,
and Jerry Fisher) and five members of the INCOSE Los Angeles Chapter (Dr. Gelys Trancho, David Imbodien,
Cate Heneghan, Gina Parodi De Reid, and Michael Dickerson). The team of judges reviewed the abstracts for
several hundred of the over 1600 total projects at the ISEF. John Walker was kind enough to review the
abstracts in advance, and identify the subset for our team of judges to
consider, thus making the job of the judges much more manageable. As they reviewed the projects, our team of
judges looked for the following:
- The project involves characterizing, designing, building, modifying and/or testing a clearly identifiable complex system.
- The system’s utility to society should also be clearly apparent. We are looking for something that can be built; modified, or redesigned to provide an appropriate solution to a societal (stakeholder) need.
- Systems engineering practices should be clearly applied (even if the student does not use systems engineering terminology to describe what they have done).
The winner of
the INCOSE award receives $1500, and is invited to the next INCOSE
Symposium. At the Symposium, the winner
is given a booth in the exhibitor area, and asked to present his/her project to
the Symposium attendees. Matthew
Hileman, the 2014 winner, attended the 2014 INCOSE Symposium together with his
mother, and he was recognized in one of the Symposium plenary sessions.
In addition
to selecting the winner of the INCOSE award, the team selects up to 10
honorable mentions. The INCOSE team of
judges also talks to each of the students responsible for the most promising 40
or 50 projects to discuss the goals and value of systems engineering. Our hope is to inspire these promising
students to take an interest in systems engineering as they move forward in
their education and their careers.
The winner
and honorable mention awardees for 2014 were:
First Award of $1,500
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EE093
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Cube Satellites: Miniature
Satellite Design and Operations for Pulsed Plasma System Applications
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Matthew Hileman, 16, The Classical Academy, College Pathways,
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Certificate
of Honorable Mention
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CS031
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Train the
Artificial Brain II: Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Treatment Plan of
Alzheimer's Disease using Neural Networks
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Roma Vivek Pradhan, 17, Friendswood High School,
Friendswood, Texas
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CS084
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Voice Integrated Development
Environment for People Who Are Blind, Myopia Affected or Have RSI
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Diana Marusic, 16, Theoretical Lyceum "Ion
Creanga," Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
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EE061
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Electromagnetic Tire Propulsion
System
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Alexander William Beall, 17, Brunswick High School,
Brunswick, Maryland
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EE082
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Development of a Teleoperation
Robot
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Mina Fahmi Fahmi, 17, Great Mills High School, Great
Mills, Maryland
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EN012
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The VP (Ventriculoperitoneal)
Shunt Circuit
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Jennifer Lauren Cramer, 18, West Linn High School, West
Linn, Oregon
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ET044
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The Cooling of Solar Panels to
Increase Power Output
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Christopher Rafael Botello, 15, John Jay High School, San
Antonio, Texas
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ET045
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Optimizing the Utilization of Wind
Energy with an Alternative Engineering Design: A Horizontal Dual Motor
Turbine, Phase II
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Caid Lunt, 17, Weber High School, Pleasant View, Utah
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ET062
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Cones, Chutes, and Coils: Novel
Proposals to Ebb Wingtip Vortices
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Loren J. Newton, 16, La Sierra High School, Riverside,
California
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ET065
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Rain Power
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Michael Jose Lopez Chiesa, 18, Saint Mary's Ryken High
School, Leonardtown, Maryland
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By Dorothy McKinney
INCOSE SFBAC Board Member
INCOSE Fellow
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