Call for applications
We are excited that you will be participating in NCUR and presenting your engineering research. The CUR Engineering Division would like to highlight your research! By completing this application, you are allowing CUR-Engineering to share your research video with the public. You will also be eligible to be recognized publicly and potentially receive a cash award.
Submissions were due by March 27, 2026 with award decisions being announced by May.
Guidelines for Video Submission
- Please record yourself discussing the research that you are presenting at NCUR this year. The video must be no longer than 60 seconds. Visuals are not required but may be helpful.
- Videos must be posted on Youtube and the setting must be either set to “unlisted” or “public”.
Eligibility
- All students presenting research in an engineering discipline at NCUR and submits a valid application by March 27, 2026.
Videos will be reviewed based on the following criteria
- Clarity of Purpose
- Appropriateness of Methodology
- Quality of Analysis and/or Interpretation
- Ability to Present the Research or Creative Activity
- Organization of the Presented Materials
- Value of Research or Creative Activity to the Discipline
- Delivery/ Communication
- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Engineering Division NCUR Video Contest Awardees
Om Dobariya (Penn State University)
Robin Lange (Georgia Southern University)
Landon Rash (Georgia Southern University)
Maria Tejedor-Mendoza (Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá)
Jeremiah Toub (Georgia Southern University)
Hanora Watson (Georgia Southern University)
Ben Aaron – Spatial Variation in Structural Lumber Strength: Experimental Testing and Probabilistic Model
Ghaleeb Hakim – The Three-Tab Keyguard: A Novel, Low-Cost Device to Help Special Needs Students Communicate
Brenton Hall – Experimental Study of an Elastohydrodynamic Seal for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Turbomachinery
Ihfaz Islam – Low-Power RISC-V Design for Edge Devices
Abigail Read – Development and Evaluation of Advanced Machine Motion Table for Kinematic and Dynamic MotionsÂ
Omkar Anand – Ansys Simulations for Thermal Analysis of a Bifacial Solar Panel
Satyaj Bhargava – A Novel Approach to Brain Vessel Segmentation Using MRI for Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Kyla Covato – Discovering the Effect of Red Blood Cell Lysis Buffer on the ESKAPE Pathogens
Akhil Manikandan – Ansys Simulations for Thermal Analysis of a Bifacial Solar Panel
Arun Mohan – Improving Operations Research Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches
Nicholas Rose – Algorithms for Characterizing Motion-Based Energy Harvesting Reproducibility
Kishan Sivakumar – Thermal Analysis of Flexible Micro Patch Antenna Excitation in Tumor DetectionÂ
Jorge Andres Vanegas Mendivil – Effect of PPy-PEDOT Nanoparticles on the Viability of Brain Tissue Scaffolds
Jonak Bhagawati – Space Debris Population Calculator
Phoebe Ellin Chua – Particle- and drug-screening for macrophage phenotype control
Fabiola Gonzalez – Physical and Chemical Activation of Crop Products to Manufacture Engineered Adsorbents for Environmental Applications
Maggie Hoang – Battery As Integrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV, Robotics
Robert Kobrin – Chitosan-Glycerol Injectable Gel for Intratumoral Retention of Immunotherapeutics
Charles Koduru – Enhancing Pathogen Eradication: An Autonomous UV Robot System with Advanced Navigation and Intelligent Disinfection Techniques
Chelsea Koduru – Enhancing Pathogen Eradication: An Autonomous UV Robot System with Advanced Navigation and Intelligent Disinfection Techniques
Luke Kroeger – Determining Aircraft Final Approach Altitude Using a Machine Learning-Based Sensor Fusion System
Manoela Neves – Simulation and Evaluation of Flow-Induced Shear in a Microfluidic Slide via Computational Fluid Dynamics
Anna Nguyen – Taking L’s in Mie Resonator Arrays for the Colorimetric Differentiation of Chiral Light
Mitchell Strickland – A tribological Characterization of a 50-50 Blend of JET-A and Hydro Processed Hydrocarbons, Ethers, and Fatty Acids (HEFA) Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Timothy Sutton – Analyzing the Performance of 3D LiDAR and Camera-based Object Detection Systems and their Fusion using AI for Autonomous SystemsÂ
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Ruby Jackson
Jonah Henry
Taylor Carey
Manoela Neves
Mario Machado
Luke Kroeger
Matt Gunn
David Brown
Amanda Serger
Emilee Rickabaugh
Cody Watson
Sounak Chakrabarti
Ana Isabel Boyd
Austin Brant
James O’Hara
Maryam Siddique
Arsha Ali
Ephraim Ayeni
Hannah Carton
Pablo Consalvo
Vitalii Dubytskyi
Devangshu Dutta
Michael Espinal
Alden Fernandez
Daniel Gonzalez
Biya Haile
Tobi Kamoru
Anupama (Sigma) Kar
James Kim
Monica Kwapisz
Allen Morales
Molly Vitale-Sullivan
Matthew Garberding
Ibrahim Akbar
Katherine Olson
Ronda Safadi
Dian Yuan
Ryan Asselin
Celeste Fong
Hayden Tse
Adam Ashcroft
Kareem Omar
Ezoz Ezozova
Ragnarok Sixx
Sabrina Ballard
Nancy Ibarra
Josh Beard