Contest To Name Latest Marine Product By Inventor

If you or a family member can come up with a catchy, accurate and descriptive name for inventor Mo Ehsani’s latest product, you could win $1,000.

Since he retired as Centennial Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona after a 28-year career, Ehsani has been growing his product line and company. Ehsani’s company, QuakeWrap, is based in Arizona, but its innovative products are known to waterways users—and to Waterways Journal readers.

At the recent Inland Marine Expo in Nashville, Tenn., Jason Johnson, a civil engineer with the Nashville Engineer District, expressed interest in using QuakeWrap’s PileMedic product to reinforce mooring cells in the district’s waters. PileMedic, which uses fiber-reinforced polymer panels to strengthen piles and mooring cells, was featured in the WJ in 2018.

In 2021, the WJ wrote about Ehsani’s Form-A-Tube product, which uses interlocking PVC panels coated with an ultraviolet-resistant product as a formwork for construction. The panels can be cut to any length on-site before being wrapped around a column or piling and slotted or tapped into place before concrete or other material is poured into the void between the existing column or piling and the tubing.

Ehsani’s latest product can be of great use, he believes, to both coastal and riverfront communities fighting rising water levels. It uses reinforced FRC panels to strengthen and/or extend seawalls or floodwalls along a riverfront.

For a description of the product, contest rules and a link to register for the contest, visit https://info.pilemedic.com/help-us-create-a-name-for-our-latest-invention. The deadline is August 15. Multiple entries are allowed.