2020 FACULTY/STAFF INNOVATION PITCH COMPETITION WINNERS
Alabama Power Foundation Grand Prize
$10,000 – Upcycling of Waste Plastics
Jason Bara – Associate Professor, College of Engineering
First Prize
$5,000 – Low-cost Water Sensors
Silvana Croope – Resilience Research Engineer, Alabama Transportation Policy Research Center
Second Prize
$3,000 – Foresense Solutions
Adam Hauser – Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
Third Prize
$2,000 – Low-cost Strength Enhancer for Concrete
Jialai Wang – Professor, College of Engineering
Thanks to all Competitors, Judges, Facilitators, and the Support Team
Facilitator
- Ying Qin
Judges
- Kim Bissell
- Heather Carmack
- Jim Cochran
Support Team
- Dan Blakley
- Dr. Theresa Welbourne
- Dr. Russell Mumper
- Joshua Sahib
- Lauren Wilson
All Competitors
- Rob Alley – Director, Art for Life’s Sake Program, Honor’s College
- Jason Bara – Associate Professor, College of Engineering
- Yuping Bao – Associate Professor, College of Engineering
- Keri Barron – Assistant Professor, Capstone College of Nursing
- Heather Carter-Templeton – Associate Professor, Capstone College of Nursing
- Silvana Croope – Resilience Research Engineer, Alabama Transportation Policy Research Center
- Keivan Davami – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
- Michael Fedewa – Assistant Professor, College of Education
- Adam Hauser – Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
- Qiang Huang – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
- Lingyan Kong – Assistant Professor, Human Environmental Sciences
- Sushmaaa Kotru – Associate Professor, College of Engineering
- Jared Taylor-White – Assistant Manager of Recruitment Services, Division of Student Life
- Jialai Wang – Professor, College of Engineering
- Feng Yan – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
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