Completed Projects

Over a million of our nation's veterans are currently returning to the United States from their overseas posts. Yet the economic activity of veterans in their post-military career is vastly unknown and could have great positive effects on our nation's economy—and veterans themselves—if better...

Due to increasingly strict fuel standards and the need to reduce the United States’ dependency on oil, the auto industry must develop new methods for increasing fuel mileage in their fleets.Michigan Technological University's Supermileage team is rising to the challenge by developing vehicles that...

To improve the capabilities and safety of low-cost ventilators, the International Business Ventures Enterprise is designing a simple yet reliable ventilator that can be stockpiled by hospitals.

Oftentimes, in non-centralized regions of third world countries, the people present at the birth of a child have neither the training nor the equipment necessary to determine whether a non-responsive infant is living or stillborn. Students in the International Business Ventures Enterprise at...

Imagine if we could recognize nutritional deficiencies in infants and children before they cause serious medical damage. With only a single teardrop, we think it is possible to detect someone's vitamin levels in the same way blood plasma tests currently do, but through a quick—and completely...

SIUE Green Roof Environmental Evaluation Network is partnering with Filtrexx, St. Louis Composting, and Illinois American Water to install a vegetable rooftop garden. Four vegetable varieties will be grown in three growth media blends of compost and drinking water treatment solids. The quality and...

Having already implemented a mobile health clinic in Ghana in 2013, we are in the process of gathering more medical supplies. Our hope is to raise enough funds to purchase and ship a portable x-ray machine as well as other vital medical supplies.

Designing, prototyping, and testing the charcoal manufacturing process using kilns with the goal of implementing a new design in the West African country, Benin. A partnership between Consumer Product Manufacturing Enterprise and Agriculture & Forestry Investment RAK.

With the availability of non-renewable fuels depleting, renewable fuels are becoming a more attractive use. Biodiesel is a renewable fuel produced from animal and vegetable fats that is cleaner burning, biodegradable, and non-toxic. The annual production of renewable biodiesel is on the rise, so...

Mind Trekkers has a unique opportunity to serve students, families, and educators alike by providing an accessible tool for anyone to engage in exciting science, technology, engineering, and math activities—no matter where they are! The Mind Trekkers mobile application will provide them another...