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Student
Design Competitions
Assistive Technology,
Rehabilitation, and Disability Related Competitions
Health, Medical, and
Biomedical Related Competitions
General
Competitions
If you are an undergraduate or graduate
student working on accessible computing or assistive technologies, we invite
you to submit a two-page contribution to the ASSETS
2017 Student Research Competition (SRC). Authors of accepted
submissions will present a poster summary of their contribution to a panel of
experts at the conference. The top three undergraduate and top three graduate
poster presenters will then present their research to the conference audience.
All accepted SRC submissions will be published in the conference proceedings
and the best presentations will receive a prize.
The SRC offers a fantastic opportunity
to attend the conference and meet the community. If you are selected to
participate, ACM's SRC program covers expenses up to $500 US (courtesy
Microsoft Research).
This year's ASSETS conference is taking
place in Baltimore, MD from October 29th to November 1st, 2017. Submission
deadline for the SRC is 30 June 2016.
Stacy Branham (UMBC) & Lizbeth
Escobedo (UCSD)
Chairs of the Student Research Competition at ASSETS
2017
src-assets17@acm.org
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The AbilityOne
Design Challenge is a national competition for high school students.
Students develop assistive technologies that empower people with disabilities
to break through barriers to employment.
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Inspiring students to be product
innovators and entrepreneurs, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) I-Show
Innovation Showcase (I-Show) provides a platform for top collegiate
teams to compete for seed money to further develop their product. While
demonstrating their technical creativity, winners must prove that they have a
sustainable business model to a judging panel of successful innovators,
industry experts, venture capitalists, and intellectual property
specialists.
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The Center for Integration of Medicine
and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
Prize for Primary
Health Care is an annual national competition designed to encourage
development of creative technological innovations with great potential to
catalyze and support improved delivery of care at the frontlines of
medicine.
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The
Collegiate Inventors
Competition has recognized, rewarded, and encouraged hundreds of
students to share their inventive ideas with the world. The Competition
promotes exploration in invention, science, engineering, technology, and other
creative endeavors and provides a window on the technologies from which society
will benefit in the future. This competition is sponsored by Abbott Fund &
United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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The National Collegiate Inventors and
Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) BMEstart competition recognizes
undergraduate excellence in biomedical innovation. The competition is the first
in the United States designed specifically for undergraduate biomedical and
bioengineering students.
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The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society (EMBS)
Undergraduate
Student Design Competition involves designing and building an original
device or product not currently offered on the market that applies engineering
principles and technology to problems in medicine and biology. Other acceptable
designs include a modification of an existing product, and may consist of
hardware, software, or a combination of both.
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The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME)
Design
for Direct Digital Manufacturing Competition encourages student
designers are to use their imagination to design a product that mainly utilizes
DDM processes. The product must be able to be used in another assembly. The
designed product will be a device, mechanism, assembly or a subassembly
representing part of another product. The resultant design should represent a
fully working prototype. Any internal electronics or mechanics must be
specified within the design. The geometry of the design must be defined within
a three-dimensional (3-D), computer-aided design (CAD) system capable of
producing robust STL files.
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DiabetesMine Design
Challenge is an online competition to encourage creative new tools for
improving life with diabetes.
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The IEEE
Presidents'
Change the World Competition recognizes and rewards students who
identify a real-world problem and apply engineering, science, computing, and
leadership skills to solve it.
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Sponsored by the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Bioengineering Division, the
Undergraduate
Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices
encourages undergraduate students engaged in design projects related to
rehabilitation or assistive devices during the current (2011-2012) academic
year to submit an abstract of their design project to the annual SBC
meeting.
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For schools with Engineering World
Health (EWH) student chapters, the new
Health
Design Competition provides an opportunity for individual student
chapters to participate in a competition that focuses on social
entrepreneurship. The emphasis of this competition is on the potential to
positively impact health care by improving access to or lowering the cost of
health care in developing nations. This competition is currently limited to
entries from student EWH Chapters.
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The RESNA
Student Design
Competition is open to undergraduate or graduate students from any
discipline that has a creative and innovative design that will assist an
individual with a disability to function more independently. Entries are judged
on originality, quality of design, and usefulness to persons with disabilities.
The RESNA SDC has a long history of providing a forum for the work of energetic
students representing a wide variety of disciplines including mechanical,
electrical and biomedical engineering, computer information science, and
architecture. SDC winners have frequently moved on to become leaders in the
field of Assistive Technology.
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The
ASME
2012 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive
Devices encourages undergraduate students engaged in design projects
related to rehabilitation or assistive devices during the current (2011-2012)
academic year to submit an abstract of their design project to the annual SBC
meeting. The top 6 finalists will be given an opportunity to present their work
during a special podium presentation session. The objectives of this
undergraduate design competition are to showcase the undergraduate design work,
give students with an opportunity to describe their work, introduce them to the
Bioengineering Division of ASME, and provide an chance to meet professionals in
the bioengineering field. This competition is sponsored by the Bioengineering
Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with support from the
National Science Foundation.
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Perkins School for the Blind is calling
all entrepreneurs to focus on improving opportunities and quality of life for
people with disabilities. As part of MassChallenge 2012, Perkins is
offering the Perkins Assistive Technology Prize. The $25,000 grant, drawn from
a donation earmarked for technological solutions, promotes Perkins’
mission to empower individuals with disabilities to reach their personal
potential.
Administered through MassChallenge, The
Perkins Assistive Technology Prize seeks to encourage competitors to develop
new, low- and high-technology devices that could have a significant impact on
the quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Such assistive
technology could apply to any sector of life (education, transportation,
recreation, communications, vocational, etc.). The assistive technology could
be designed for a certain group of individuals with a disability (vision loss,
hearing loss, mobility, etc.), or have a more universal market application.
Details and application information are at the MassChallenge
website.
Disability pushes people to the fringes
of community and society. But assistive technology allows people with
disabilities to be productive workers, to process information, and to put their
ideas into action. Innovation can be applied in countless ways to provide
mobility for people with physical disabilities, communication access for those
with impaired hearing or vision, and adaptations we have yet to imagine.
Together, Perkins and MassChallenge can put entrepreneurs’ imaginations in
motion to find new ways to leap over disability to greater productivity and
independence.
It’s in everyone’s interest
to urge entrepreneurs to consider accessibility because better access for
people with disabilities means better access for all.
So spread the word ... and if you have
an idea, please register! Registration began March 1 and runs through April 11,
2012, at noon EST.
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The
Autism
Connects technology and design competition challenges students to help
individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better connect with the
world around them, and allow individuals who do not have ASD to better
understand and connect with those who do.
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BASES Challenge is an
annual startup competition that awards funding to aspiring Stanford
entrepreneurs. Students and alumni enter their business or social venture ideas
to compete for $100,000 in prize money and developmental
opportunities.
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Some teams may wish to submit a copy of
their final report (modified slightly to meet contest guidelines) to the
Lincoln Design
Contest, which is the foremost national competition for student
designers. Students may submit papers representing their work on design,
engineering, or manufacturing problems relating to any type of building, bridge
structure machine, product or mechanical apparatus; or arc welding research,
testing, procedure or process development. Reports prepared for course work,
projects, or theses are eligible to be submitted as entries.
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BMEidea is the United
States' premier competition for biomedical and bioengineering students. The
competition encourages development of new health-related technologies, invented
by students, that addresses a clinical medical need. Evaluation criteria
include technical, economic and regulatory feasibility, improved access to
health care, technological innovation, and potential for commercialization.
BMEidea is a unique competition, in that judges rank entries on all aspects of
biomedical commercialization, from product innovation to market need, and from
regulatory strategies to social impact. Prizes of $10,000, $2,500, and $1,000
will be awarded to the three winners. Many BMEidea winners have gone on to
launch successful companies based on their invention.
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The Microsoft
Imagine
Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. It
provides an opportunity for students to use their creativity, passion, and
knowledge of technology to help solve global challenges and make a difference
in the world. While competing for cash and prizes, students gain real-life
experiences, make new friends, and change the world.
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The Clorox
Challenge Most of our household cleaning or personal care tasks today
require us to use both hands to get the job done. When we clean the house,
we’ve got a spray bottle in one hand and a wipe in the other. When
we’re in the shower, we need two hands to apply shampoo. And just think
about trying to clean up a soiled diaper with one hand! Wouldn’t it be
great to allow for more multitasking by freeing up one of those hands?
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Domus
Call for Ideas: Age-friendly products Domus promotes an international
call for ideas, with the goal of bringing to life a new generation of domestic
objects - beautiful, intelligent and easy to use - aimed at older adults. The
competition aspires to the prospective creation of new collections of
beautiful, practical and functional objects, while promoting a design culture
focused on the specific needs of an increasingly important population segment.
Deadline for submissions is 07/03/2012
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The
SIGACCESS Student
Research Competition (SRC) is a forum for undergraduates and graduate
students to present their research, exchange ideas, receive feedback from a
panel of experts, and have an opportunity to win awards for their
work.
Submission deadline is 06/29/2012
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The
Create the Future Design
Contest 2014 was launched in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs
magazine to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The annual event
has attracted more than 8,000 product design ideas from engineers,
entrepreneurs, and students worldwide.
Submission deadline is
07/01/2014
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The
IBM
/ IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge IBM and IEEE are in search of creative
team-based student projects that can help students at any level learn about
applying engineering, science, and other disciplines to solve real world
problems.
Application deadline is 11/01/2012
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Next Generation: Design
Competition "This year we are challenging you to develop solutions that
empower, advance, and include groups often overlooked in the design process
(including but not limited to, our rapidly increasing aging population and
citizens with disabilities). The form is up to you; consider how tech-savvy
people are becoming and what devices, materials, and modes of transportation
will stay relevant 20 years from now. Keep in mind what other groups will
benefit from the design."
Entries due 02/18/2013
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International Design Excellence Awards -
IDEA 2013 The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) opens its
International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2013 competition to designers,
students and companies worldwide. For 33 years, IDEA has recognized design
excellence in products, sustainability, interaction design, packaging,
strategy, research, and concepts.
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Some of this material has
been exerpted from
Capstone
Projects and National Student Design Competitions IEEE Pulse - March /
April 2011 - page 7 - Jay R. Goldberg.
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