Universities across the United States closed down in the beginning of 2020 due to an outbreak of COVID-19. Universities adapted by developing ranging plans to continue educational instruction, varying between fully online instruction, opening schools completely, or a hybrid combination. It is critical to understand how these ranging policies impacted COVID-19 outcomes across the U.S.
The goal of our project is to develop an affordable meal replacement bar to help mitigate the rising obesity rates, specifically in college students. Moreover, our proposed solution is a meal replacement bar that would provide an adult person with all of the necessary nutrients (protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals) needed in a given
While the majority of heart arrhythmias have been treated through implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) or orally through medication, many of these treatments have not provided fast-acting relief from an arrhythmia, and have led to malfunctions in sensing of ICD and damage to organs by Amiodarone. Our goal for our project takes a two-pronged approach, which
Our grand challenge is to lower traffic accidents by using autonomous vehicles. To achieve this in the scope of our GCI project we created a machine learning algorithm that classifies street signs and pedestrians. This grand challenge contributes to the problem of car accidents. We wrote a machine learning algorithm that is trained to detect
The grand challenge that the Pandemitrack team aimed to address was the management of disease outbreak, specifically the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). With the spread of COVID-19, there have been multiple resources providing information and as a result, people were misinformed. The proposed solution was to create an app to identify local cases in
Our group took on the GCI challenge presented by Dean Lyon to find sustainability in a world of ubiquitous computing. We found a number of green approaches to accomplishing this goal and researched the advantages and disadvantages of each one. Analyzing our research we have determined which solutions would be viable options to implement on
Over the last decade, the United States has seen an unacceptable amount of school related gun violence. In order to solve this grand challenge, our team has partnered with Safe Kids Inc. to assist them with the development and distribution of their violence prevention programs. We have created and distributed two surveys that will provide
Our goal is to improve poor cybersecurity behavior via a multi-lesson educational website. Teaching Cybersecurity Best Practices Poster
Consumption of single use water bottles has significantly increased which has negatively affected the environment. PLA (Polylactide) plastic is an alternative to conventional plastics because of biodegradability. Our grand challenge is to minimize plastic pollution. One solution to this problem could be replacing conventional plastics with biodegradable PLA plastic. We created a biodegradable single use
Understanding how COVID-19 can further extort preexisting complications in obese patients is our primary goal. This is a problem because patients who are obese or are at risk of obesity should be informed of ways they can help themselves and how COVID-19 will affect them. COVID-19 and Obesity: The Relationship Between Two Pandemics Poster