EPIC Innovator Winners
1st Annual EPIC Innovator Competition (2019)
5 finalists and innovative ideas:
- Jeffrey Bubar & Justin Fox: “Oxyhydrogen Energy Storage”
- Casey Nichols: “In-conduit Current Energy Converter with Magnetic Transmission.”
- Bhaskar Mitra: “Real-Time Controller Hardware in Loop for Grid Monitoring Operations using Wavelet Transform”
- Javad Khalesi: “Thermo-fluid and Mechanical Design of an Advanced Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger for Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycles”
- Namwon Kim, Chondon Roy, William Halaburda, Nathaniel Belles, Wallace Obey: “Ubiquitous Hands-on Education: Automated Hardware Module Design & Online-Access”
The 2019 winners:
- 1st Place: Bhaskar Mitra
- 2nd Place: Casey Nichols
- 3rd Place: Jeffrey Bubar & Justin Fox
2nd Annual EPIC Innovator Competition (2020)
5 finalists and innovative ideas:
- Akintonde Abbas & Olalekan Ogundairo: “PROAktif, A Prosumer-Centric Power Generation Concept for Africa”
- Margaret Kocherga: “Materials for Single Layer Organic Light-Emitting Diodes”
- Md. Mahmud-Ul-Tarik Chowdhury: “Development of an Integrated Dust Removal System for Solar PV Panels for Better Efficiency”
- Nicholas Turner: “Future of electrolytic material for Redox Flow Batteries”
- Jimmy Nyanwapolu: “Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Systems for Commercial Off-Grid (DiGESSCO)”
- The 2020 winners:
- 1st Place: Margaret Kocherga
- 2nd Place: Akintonde Abbas & Olalekan Ogundairo
- 3rd Place: Nicholas Turner
3rd Annual EPIC Innovator Competition (2021)
5 finalists:
- Tyler Adams
- Raheem Ariwoola
- Amogh Bandekar & Allison File
- Alex French & Garrett Jones
- Yafeng Wang
The 2021 winners:
- 1st Place: Yafeng Wang
- 2nd Place: Amogh Bandekar & Allison File
- 3rd Place: Alex French & Garrett Jones
4th Annual EPIC Innovator Competition (2022)
5 finalists:
- Rakesh Kumar Belchandan, PhD in Electrical Engineering (2025): “Building Tools to Modernize Electric Distribution Systems”
- Haichen Liu, PhD in Electrical Engineering (2022): “Modular Hybrid SiC and Si based Battery Inverter for Energy Storage Integration”
- Seyedehhamideh Hosseiniirani, PhD in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems (2024): “Regenerative Facade”
- Syed Hasnain, BSCE (2022): “Geothermal Loop Worm”
- Roshanak Ashrafi, PhD in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems (2022) and Amir Zarrabi, PhD in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems: “Low Cost Dynamic Solar Simulator”
The 2022 winners:
- 1st Place: Haichen Li
- 2nd Place: Roshanak Ashrafi & Amir Zarrabi 3rd Place: Seyedehhamideh Hosseiniirani
