McManigal, Bode, Grube win top prizes at Engineering Pitch Competition

Nebraska Engineering students Patrick McManigal, Brooke Bode and Alyssa Grube earned the top three places April 2 at the 2024 Engineering Pitch Competition, held at the Willa Cather Dining Complex. 

In first place, earning $3,000: Midwest Biometrics, led by doctoral computer engineering student McManigal, for eNose, designed to non-invasively screen users for colorectal cancer.

Bode, a Raikes School junior mechanical engineering major with minors in math, business, computer science and agribusiness entrepreneurship, nabbed second place and $2,000 for Cattle Kettle, a software system that allows ranchers to monitor tank levels and temperatures remotely and control both with one click.

Third place and $1,000 went to Alyssa Grube, a doctoral graduate student inchemical and biomolecular engineering and InnoTech, a self-sustaining, compact, textile-based wearable device that monitors vital patient signs.