James Dyson Award
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The James Dyson Award is an international student design award that challenges young people to, "design something that solves a problem". The contest is open to university level students (or recent graduates) in the fields of product design, industrial design and engineering.[1] The award is run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to get young people excited about design engineering.
To qualify students must have sudied in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore,Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States.[1]
One national winner and four finalists are chosen from each country. James Dyson selects an international winner for the overall prize. From 2007-2012, the International winning student or team received a £10,000 prize, £10,000 for their university, and a certificate. From 2013-present, the International winning student or team receives £30,000 plus a variable amount to the University to help further develop the technology.[1]
Winners
- International winners
- 2007 Maxi Pantel (Germany) for the Senjo, an electronic device for the deaf to communicate with the hearing.[2][3]
- 2008 Michael Chen (England) for the Reactiv, a motion-activated LED safety jacket for cycling.[4]
- 2009 Yusuf Muhammad and Paul Thomas (England) for Automist, a kitchen-faucet sprinkler system that controls residential fires.[5][6][7]
- 2010 Samuel Adeloju (Australia) for Longreach, water floating device for saving victims in water.[8][9][10]
- 2011 Edward Linacre (Australia) for Airdrop, extracts water from the air and delivers it directly to plant roots through a network of subterranean piping.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
- 2012 Dan Watson (England) for SafetyNet, a new commercial fishing net to allow smaller and unwanted fish to escape.[17][18][19]
- 2013 University of Pennsylvania team (United States) for Titan Arm, a bionic arm. The arm was developed for the Cornell Cup USA 2013 competition where they won first place. Award: $45,000 + $16,000 to the University.[20][21][22]
- 2014 James Roberts (Loughborough University, England) for MOM, a portable inflatable incubator. Award: $45,000 + $5,000 to the University.[23][24]
- 2015 University of Waterloo team (Canada) for the Voltera V-One, a laptop-sized printed circuit board printer. Award: $45,000 + $7,500 to the University[25]
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