Participants

Animal science

This category includes animals (mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, etc.), animal life, animal development, animal life cycles, animal interactions with each other and/or their environment, and the study of animals at the cellular and the molecular level.

Behavioral / Social Science

This category includes the study of psychology, sociology, anthropology, archeology, etiology, ethnology, linguistics, animal behavior (learned or instinctive), learning, perception, urban problems, gerontology, reading problems, public opinion surveys, and education testing, etc.

Biochemistry / Microbiology

This category includes molecular biology, molecular genetics, enzymes, photosynthesis, blood chemistry, protein chemistry, food chemistry, hormones, bacteriology, virology, protozoology, fungal and bacterial genetics, yeast, etc.

Medicine and Health

This category includes medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, veterinary medicine, pathology, ophthalmology, nutrition, sanitation, pediatrics, dermatology, allergies, speech and hearing, optometry, etc.

Plant Science

This category includes agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, forestry, plant biorhythms, palynology, plant anatomy, plant taxonomy, plant pathology, plant genetics, hydroponics, algology, mycology, etc.

Environmental Science

This category includes pollution (air, water, and land), pollution sources and their control, waste disposal, impact studies, environmental alteration (heat, light, irrigation, erosion, etc.), ecology.

Chemistry

This category includes physical chemistry, organic chemistry (other than biochemistry), inorganic chemistry, materials, plastics, metallurgy, soil chemistry, etc.

Computer Science

This category includes new developments in software or hardware, information systems, computer systems organization, computer methodologies, and data (including structures, encryption, coding and information theory), etc.

Earth / Space Science

Space science is the study of sciences related to planets, planetary systems, solar systems, the origin and development of the universe, and humans in space (e.g., Observation of and/or experimentally involved in Astronomy, Atmosphere, Meteorology, and the transportation, habitability and sustainability of humans and systems in space).

Mathematics

This category includes calculus, geometry, abstract algebra, number theory, statistics, complex analysis, probability, topology, logic, operations research, and other topics in pure and applied mathematics.

Physics & Astronomy

This category includes optics, acoustics, particle, nuclear, atomic, plasma, superconductivity, fluid and gas dynamics, thermodynamics, semiconductors, magnetism, quantum mechanics, biophysics, astronomy, lasers, etc.

Energy & Transportation

This category includes aerospace, aeronautical engineering and aerodynamics, alternative fuels, fossil fuel energy, green energy science & technology, vehicle development, renewable energies, etc.

Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the study and design, development, testing, improving and production of aircraft and related systems (aeronautical engineering) and of spacecraft, missiles, rocket propulsion systems and other equipment that operate beyond the earth’s atmosphere (Space Engineering). It includes the direction of the technical phases of their manufacture and operation.

Chemical Engineering

This category includes the application of the principles of chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics to solve problems in the production, transport, or use of chemicals, fuel, drugs, food, and other products. Projects may also include work in areas of chemical process safety, applied thermodynamics, mass transfer, heat transfer and fluid flow.

Civil / Electrical / Mechanical Engineering

Civil Engineering: Studies that involve planning, designing, construction, maintenance of structures and public works, such as bridges or dams, roads, water supply, sewer, flood control and traffic.

Electrical Engineering: Includes electronics, digital computers, power engineering, telecommunications, control systems, radio- frequency engineering, signal processing, instrumentation, and microelectronics.

Mechanical Engineering: Involves the generation and application of heat and mechanical power and the design, production, and use of machines and tools.

Materials and Bioengineering

The study of the characteristics and uses of various materials with improvements to their design which may add to their advanced engineering performance.

Materials can include: Biomaterials, Ceramic and Glasses, Composite Materials, Nano Materials, Polymers, and Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials, and other. Additionally, studies can include computation, theory, and modelling of materials. Bioengineering or biomaterial studies can include but are not limited to studies involving any matter, surface, or construct that interacts with biological systems. Such materials are often used and/or adapted for a medical application, and thus comprise whole or part of a living structure or biomedical device which performs, augments, or replaces a natural function.

Robotics & Intelligent Machines

This category includes biomechanics, cognitive systems, control theory, robot kinematics, and machine learning.