Engineering students James Molini, Patrick Caputo, and others have teamed up to create "Waste to Watt", a low-cost back-up power supply intended to run devices such as EKGs, patient monitors and computers for hours when the power goes out.  The device is targeted for developing nations where frequent power outages are a real problem in the health care arena. The most expensive components of the device are made of recycled electronic waste. "Waste to Watts" recently won a $10,000 cash prize from the Dell Social Innovation Competition earlier this year.

Molini graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and is currently a soldier in the Army Reserve.  Caputo graduated with a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics.