Foambuster

Five mechanical engineering students banded together to develop the Foambuster, a unique handheld tool that allows construction contractors to drastically cut down on the mess, hassle, and expense that comes with installing exterior insulation. The tool helps gather and clean the snow-like debris created by EIFS, more commonly known as the external insulation finishing system. These sheets of insulation create untidiness when sanded down on construction sites.

Team Foambuster includes Davis Waln of Atlanta, Georgia; Christophe Senghor of Peachtree City, Georgia; Katelyn Sand of Westlake Village, California; Edward Diller of Los Angeles, California; and Jaime Paris Meseguer of Spain. The team has already filed for a provisional patent for their device. 

The Foambuster device has purchase requests from construction crews, and team members say they are getting overwhelmingly positive feedback. They also say there’s a national market for their device ready to be tapped.

Magic Crop

Computer science sophomore Megan Dass hopes to help universities and companies with the complicated task of building staff directories and websites with her tool, Magic Crop.

She has developed software that uses the power of artificial intelligence to automatically format photos of people into perfected headshots with proper aspect ratios to be used for web purposes.

Dass says these headshots are created within seconds and without ever sending any images to the cloud or a third-party server. She explained that building websites and staff directories can be tedious, especially when additions are constant, so her aim is to help make that process less so.

She is continuing to design ways for her platform to be customized for different customer needs.

StrideLink

A multidisciplinary team of engineers are hoping to shake up the field of physical therapy with a device that attaches to a shoe. Zea Khorramabadi of Birmingham, Alabama; Cassie McIltrot of Sykesville, Maryland; Neel Narvekar of Arcadia, California; and Tony Wineman of Woodstock, Georgia, make up Team StrideLink.

The team says millions of people suffer from physical and neurological injuries that affect their ability to walk, and many turn to physical therapy for recovery. But after talking to dozens of physical therapists, they found that a majority of patient analysis and assessment is still done using the naked eye. Their accessible gait analysis wearable device remotely monitors walking patterns and asymmetry.

Team StrideLink envisions the device becoming a key tool used, both inside and outside every physical therapist’s office, to unlock never-before-seen insights on gait — while being at the forefront of remote healthcare.

tabnam

Daksha Gupta of India; SooHoon Choi of South Korea; Ethan Perry of Wellesley, Massachusetts; and Davis Liddell of Lutherville, Maryland are Team Tabnam.

These computer science students have developed an artificial intelligence-powered shopping assistant that leverages the knowledge of user experience data.

The idea came after Gupta made a purchase of headphones that seemed fine at first but started developing problems after a couple weeks of use. The team says online product reviews are broken, and that many are written within a couple of days of purchase and often don’t reflect the actual use of a product.

This quartet retooled their software in a CREATE-X class at Georgia Tech focused on student entrepreneurship. They have been inspired by the data they are finding and believe they have the potential to build a billion dollar business.