2021 ENGINEERING DESIGN SHOWCASE

The Brain Drain team, recently featured in Rice News, won the FIRST PLACE $5,000 Woods Leazar Innovation Award for Excellence in Engineering presented by sponsors Linda and John Leazar and Maria Oden, director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, a teaching professor of bioengineering and co-director of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.

Yeah Buoy won this year’s Willy Revolution Award for Outstanding Innovation, with its design of a buoyance control device for automated underwater vehicles. That prize is also for $3,000.

Other awards presented:

Excellence in Capstone Engineering ($1,000): SmartAid.
Excellence in Capstone Engineering ($1,000): Cool Fluid Dudes.
Excellence in Underclassman, Multi-year or Club Engineering ($1,000) Coral REliEF.
Best Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Award ($750): AeroPuff.
Best Aerospace or Transportation Technology ($500): Rice Eclipse Rocketry Team – ARCA.
Best Conceptual or Computational Modeling Engineering ($500): iDoc.
Best Energy-Related Engineering ($500): Mystery Box.
Best Environment and Sustainability Engineering ($500): IPyAy.
Best Gaming, Creative or Innovative Technology ($500): Castaways II.
Best Medical Device Technology ($500): Smartdrain.
Best Technology for Low-Resource Settings ($500): Let’s Get This Breath.

You may review their competition videos, as well as the videos for all of the competitors, in the Showcase Gallery.