Engineering Seniors Awarded $10,000 in Prizes at Engineering Design Day 2009
This year’s event was held May 5 in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom, and drew a crowd of about 800. Engineering Design Day was organized by the College’s Interdisciplinary Design Program, and Sponsored by Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems.
Flocking to the event were students, faculty, parents, high school students, industry sponsors, and the press. Local coverage appeared today in the Arizona Daily Star, the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and the Tucson Citizen.
The slideshow below features a selection of photographs from the event.
List of Awards
Best Overall Design • $1,500
Dynamically scaled oblique flying wing
Prize Sponsor: Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems
Best Overall Design, Runner Up • $1,000
Multiscale biaxial optomechanical device
Prize Sponsor: Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems
Best Innovation in Engineering • $1,000
Adiabatic cell using low reagent volumes
Prize Sponsor: Ventana Medical Systems
Best Engineering Analysis • $750
Portable gluten biosensor
Prize Sponsor: Raytheon
Best Technical Documentation • $750
Mechatronic medical device deployment system
Prize Sponsor: Technical Documentation Consultants of Arizona
Best Presentation • $750
PedOne: pediatric electronic medical records
Prize Sponsor: Rincon Research
Team Leadership 1 • $250
Gravity-aligned collimator (awarded to Brigid Marshall)
Prize Sponsor: Honeywell
Team Leadership 2 • $250
Brain wave activity alarm (awarded to Amjad Mukhtar Chatila)
Prize Sponsor: Honeywell
Best Analog Design, First Place • $1,500
Brainwave activity alarm
Prize Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Best Analog Design, Second Place • $500
Telemetry system prototype
Prize Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Best Use of Prototyping • $750
Irrigation flowstream energy extraction and storage via turbine
Prize Sponsor: Phoenix Analysis and design Technologies
Best Use of Off-the-Shelf Components • $750
Leave-behind remote sensor
Prize Sponsor: Edmund Optics
Fish Out of Water • $300
Stochastic resonance (awarded to Katia Shtyrkova)
Prize Sponsor: Kristy Pearson