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Questions about the competition, intellectual property, schedule, prizes, etc:
Faculty organizing committee:
- Ray Vito, Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Merrick Furst, Professor of Computing Science and Systems
- Ravi Bellamkonda, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Craig Forest, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
On-stage judges (2009):
- Terry Blum, Tedd Munchak Chairholder, Professor, College of Management, Director, Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE)
- Merrick L. Furst, Distinguished Professor, College of Computing
- David N. Ku, Lawrence P. Huang Endowed Chair in Engineering and Entrepreneurship and Regents' Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and College of Management
- Joy Laskar, Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
On-stage decision makers (2009):
- Pete Petit, Founder and former CEO of Healthdyne and Matria Healthcare
- Steve Dickerson, Founder of DVT and founder and chairman of CAMotion
- Chris Klaus, Founder of Internet Security Systems and founder and CEO of Kaneva
On-stage distinguished guests (2009):
- Gary Shuster, Provost and Acting President of Georgia Tech
- Bob Smith, State Representative
Supporting members:
- OIT web development team led by Lisa Spence, Alex Agle, and Peter White
- Webmaster Siva Subbiah, Ashwin Raghunathan, and Scott Appling
- Communications and marketing team led by Michael Hagearty, Sarah Mallory, and Jeff Smith
- OTL team led by Kevin Wozniak
- Tau Beta Pi Members Ryan Westafer, Aaron Scott, David Lu, Derek Kolacinski, Huan Du
- Patent research team led by Sara Fuchs and Bruce Henson
- Logo work by Justin Rent
- Tyler Randolph, Paul Abbott, Suyog Benegalrao, Laws Calley, Jason Cordero
- On-stage emcee J. Peter Ludovice, Associate Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- And thank you to many others whose valuable contributions made this possible.
Sponsors:
- George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
- Tedd Munchak, Chair of Entrepreneurship
- VentureLab
- Office of the Provost
- College of Computing
- The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- College of Engineering
- D'San Corporation
- Georgia Tech Distance Learning and Professional Education
Invented by GT student Tyler Randolph, this contraption cools a beverage
can in 15 seconds!
Professor Ray Vito and Mr. Jack Griffis, a Tech AE alumnus, invented a device that generates "new" arterial tissue - which can be used as a graft in coronary artery bypass surgery.
