Students have competed in Engineering Design, Programming, Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

Isack Waserman demonstrates on Alexi Georghiou's back how their "Glove" project works, as Fran Jarnjak looks on. The three students won $12,000 in second-place honors in the Connecticut Business Plan Competition.

In the Connecticut Business Plan Competition, the UB student team, up against some of the state's very best programs, won a $12,000 second prize in an impressive victory. The Connecticut Business Plan Competition is sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development and the Connecticut Venture Group.

The winning UB team, Isack Waserman, Fran Jarnjak and Alexi Georghiou, drew on the university's College of Chiropractic in its research, and entered the competition with "The Glove," a monitoring glove used to determine pressure applied during chiropractic manipulation.

Out of 42 projects submitted, nine were chosen as finalists to compete in the final presentation, which took place in April.

Dean Tarek Sobh said, "We are very proud of their accomplishments, given the tough competition, which included five projects submitted from Yale University. This is the first time that the University of Bridgeport entered the competition."

Dean Sobh has good reason to be proud. Many students in engineering and computer science have done very well in national and even international competitions. "We're very pleased with their accomplishments," he said. "We'd like to see this trend continue in the future."

UB graduate student Sivashankar Sangarapillai won third place in the North American Microsoft.net Best Student Competition for his "BrainWebber QA" software implementation. Sivashankar received a $5,000 prize and a trip to TechEd 2002 in New Orleans in April. The prize also awards the university $5,000 for its School of Engineering scholarship fund. "We are very pleased with Sivashankar Sangarapillai's outstanding placement in this competition," Sobh said.

In a major regional competition sponsored by the American Society of Engineering Educators at West Point, the UB student team of Nishant Bhalla, Laith Rashid, Thirupathi Narayanan and Amit Singh won third place for their project, "Monitoring Radiation Levels in Cellular Phones."

The number of UB papers accepted in the competition set a record for a single university. Four other UB student projects were accepted for entry in the competition: Biral Patel, for his project "Global Education System"; Ayoush Dixit, Bhaskar Bhattarai and Siyuranga Koswatta, for their project "Tiny Chip Robot Controller"; Akinbowale Adekeye, Banu Boopalan, Jishnu Guhathakurta and Deepti Shrestha, for their project "Voice Application Interface With CS Player"; and Uddesh Gajurel and Ajay Shrestha, for their "Firewall Evaluation System."