What is the Cost of Environmental Degradation?
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Economic theory often disregards the impact of its decisions on the biosphere or assumes unlimited resourc…
The Opioid Crisis
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The United States is experiencing a national crisis regarding the use of synthetic and non- synthetic opio…
Send in the Drones: Developing an Aerial Disaster Relief Response System
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In 2017, the worst hurricane to ever hit the United States territory of Puerto Rico (see Attachment 1) lef…
Game of Ecology
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In the fictional television series Game of Thrones, based on the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of I…
Roller Coaster
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There are several Roller Coaster rating/ranking sites online that, while taking some objective measures in…
Cozy Smart House
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No one wants to spend more money than necessary on heating and air conditioning. But, everyone wants to be…
The Best Hospital
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Almost everyone will seek health care at some point in life. In an emergency, an individual will most like…
Cost of Privacy
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Pervasiveness of, and reliance on, electronic communication and social media have become widespread. One r…
How does climate change influence regional instability?
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The effects of Climate Change, to include increased droughts, shrinking glaciers, changing animal and plan…
Out of Gas and Driving on E (for electric, not empty)
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For both environmental and economic reasons, there is global interest in reducing the use of fossil fuels…
Energy Production
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Energy production and usage are a major portion of any economy. In the United States, many aspects of ener…
How Many Languages?
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There are currently about 6,900 languages spoken on Earth. About half the world's population claim one of…
Multi-hop HF Radio Propagation
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On high frequencies (HF, defined to be 3 - 30 MHz), radio waves can travel long distances (from one point…
Drone Clusters as Sky Light Displays
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Intel® developed its Shooting StarTM drone and is using clusters of these drones for aerial light shows. I…
Optimizing the Passenger Throughput at an Airport Security Checkpoint
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Following the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001, airport security has been significantly e…
Sustainable Cities Needed!
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Many communities are implementing smart growth initiatives in an effort to consider long range, sustainabl…
Migration to Mars: Utopian Workforce of the 2100 Urban Society
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The international agency, Laboratory of Interstellar Financial & Exploration Policy (LIFE), has recent…
Cooperate and Navigate
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Traffic capacity is limited in many regions of the United States due to the number of lanes of roads. For…
Merge After Toll
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Multi-lane divided limited-access toll highways use "ramp tolls" and "barrier tolls" to collect tolls from…
Managing The Zambezi River
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The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River is one of the larger dams in Africa. Its construction was controversia…
Swim, Bike, and Run
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A triathlon is a multiple-stage athletic endurance competition of three continuous and sequential events…
Shop and Ship
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As online stores start to compete with traditional brick and mortar stores the goal is to combine the bene…
Record Insurance
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In athletics, one of the possible distances to run is 15,000 meters or 15k (in the picture you see the lea…
A Hot Bath
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A person fills a bathtub with hot water from a single faucet and settles into the bathtub to cleanse and r…
Space Junk
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The amount of small debris in orbit around earth has been a growing concern. It is estimated that more tha…
The Goodgrant Challenge
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The Goodgrant Foundation is a charitable organization that wants to help improve educational performance o…
Measuring the Evolution and Influence in Society's Information Networks
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Information is spread quickly in today’s tech-connected communications network; sometimes it is due to the…
Are we heading towards a thirsty planet?
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Will the world run out of clean water? According to the United Nations, 1.6 billion people (one quarter of…
Modeling Refugee Immigration Policies
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With hundreds of thousands of refugees moving across Europe and more arriving each day, considerable atten…
Preventing Road Rage
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In some cases, the road simply loses a lane as it enters a less traveled section. In other cases, the road…
City Crime and Safety
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What can we make of the massive amount of crime statistics collected in major cities? Beyond just reportin…
Eradicating Ebola
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The world medical association has announced that their new medication could stop Ebola and cure patients w…
Searching for a Lost Plane
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Recall the lost Malaysian flight MH370. Build a generic mathematical model that could assist "searchers" i…
Managing Human Capital in Organizations
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Building an organization filled with good, talented, well-trained people is one of the keys to success. Bu…