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Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management
Technology Transfer

Technology Commercialization Initiative

Successfully Licensed Inventions:

  • Carpet Nylon Recycling technology licensed to Modular Carpet Recycling Inc.

          Contact:  swamidas@auburn.edu

Alabama Launchpad Business Plan Contest

  • 2006: Finalist (Nylon Recycling Business)
  • 2007: Ongoing Contest (Polymer Actuators and Sensors Inc.)
              Click here to view the Abstract

Publications:

Case Study:

         - Case MCRI flyer Appendix A

         - Case MCRI Appendix B

         - Case MCRI Appendix C

 

Guest Speakers:

  • Dr. Savvas Chamberlain, founder and CEO of DALSA Corp., Feb. 21, 2006
  • Dr. Das, Founder and CEO, Transwitch Corp., Feb 2007
     
Graduate Interns:
  • Nirmal Andrews

  • Sreekumar Menon

  • Vishal Srivastava

Thomas Walter Scholars working on Tech Transfer

  • Justin Gorman
  • Ken Murray

A Sample of Auburn University inventions evaluated or under evaluation
(available for licensing and/or joint technology development)

  1. An efficient process of carpet nylon recycling
  2. Magnetically elevated ring spinning system
  3. High Density 3-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube Structures.
  4. Preparation of High Energy Capacity Ruthenium Oxide
  5. Improved Speech Recognition via Multiple Listening Pathways
  6. Automatic Analog BIST with Pattern Generator and Analyzer
  7. Soil Liquefaction Abatement for Earthquake Mitigation
  8. Superior Removal of Arsenic from drinking water.
  9. Process for effective production of drug nanoparticles of reduced size.
  10. Motorized Orientation Mechanism for Wind Turbines, Satelite Antennas etc.
  11. Estimating pore size distribution in soil and rock samples.
  12. High Order Delta-Sigma Noise Shaping in Direct Digital Synthesis
  13. Precise and rapid size selection of nanoparticle populations
  14. Production of dense and uniform nanoparticle films
  15. Improved Destruction of Chlorinated Compounds in Soil and Groundwater
  16. In-situ Immobilization/Containment of Mercury in Contaminated Soils and Sediments
  17. Destruction of Perchlorate and Nitrate in Spent Ion-Exchange Brine
  18. Reformer for efficient production of ultraclean fuels from hydrocarbons.
  19. A chaotic fermentor with vastly improved ethanol yields
  20. Method of hot filament chemical vapor deposition of diamond
  21. Method of Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of diamond
  22. Rapid Polishing and Shaping of Diamond and Diamond Films
  23. On-line handwritten character recognition
  24. A novel method of Biomass pretreatment for ethanol production
  25. System and Method for estimating reliability of components for testing and quality optimization
  26. Freewill™: the Convertible, Portable Folding Bicycle-Scooter
  27. Modular Snap-On Display System
  28. Secondary Bus for Cache Write-back
  29. Low Cost Electroactive Polymer
  30. Near Room Temperature for Bonding and Sealing Silicon Devices using Indium Cold Welding.
  31. Free Piston Sterling Engine.
  32. A Method to Support Scan Based Delay Testing of ICs.
  33. Silicon Calibrated Tests for the Scan Based Delay Testing of ICs.
  34. A Multimodal Electronic Voting System.
  35. Laser Light Scattering-Based FFT Analysis of Biological Oscillators.
  36. GPS-Free geographic routing protocol for intelligent vehicles.
  37. A method for performing the delay testing of ICs.
  38. A wireless network, random access point transmission scheme for increasing security in secure localization.
  39. A wireless multiple-protocol, node-based architecture for connectivity in heterogeneous networks.
  40. Transit messaging system.
  41. Modification of Smooth Polymeric Surfaces with nanofibres using electrospinning.
  42. Fiber extrusion process for increased orientation and strength.
  43. Liquefaction Abatement
  44. Indium Cold welding
  45. Automated reaction Kinetic Landscaper
  46. Protein Kinetics Chip
  47. Personal GSM gateway for remote access VOIP
  48. Angle of Attack measurements using MEMS
  49. Lignin separation.
  50. RESS Drug Nanoparticles.
  51. Super critical fluids.

* If you want more information on any of the above inventions, send an email to the Director swamidas@auburn.edu

* For a complete list of  Auburn University Technologies available for licensing click here