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This showcase and competition highlights many of the school’s engineering design projects and represent our students’ success. The competition is open to all engineering design projects for each discipline of engineering. The evening will host 80+ judges made up of engineering alumni and local industry to help with the poster session competition.
Part of the event will be open from 4:30-7:00pm to the public, online. So everyone is welcome!! Awards will be announced around 6:30pm. Please see the public information below for more details about the public event.
Want a sneak peak at some of the projects. Take a quick tour of the Project Video Gallery. Each video should only be 1 to 2 minutes long! |
2025 Showcase Winners!
Woods Leazar Innovation Award - First Place: Excellence in Engineering
Heartbeat HERoes
Novel Alcohol Ablation Catheter with Electrical Signal Sensing
Ananya Lingineni BIOE
Rachel Lee BIOE
Vicky Liu BIOE
Shannon McGill BIOE
Kate Mischlich BIOE
Vale Ortega BIOE
Veronica Aguilar MECH
Willy Revolution Award for Outstanding Innovation - First Place
AeroForge
Development of Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing Device
Aasha Zinke MSNE
Davis Thames MSNE
Galio Guo MSNE
Grant Samara MSNE
Douglas Hebda MECH
Garrett French MECH
Julianna Dickman MECH
Willy Revolution Award for Outstanding Innovation - Second Place
Bay-Max
Remotely Operated Vehicle with Buoyancy Control Devices
Excellence in Capstone Engineering Award
AeroForge
Development of Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing Device
Aasha Zinke MSNE
Davis Thames MSNE
Galio Guo MSNE
Grant Samara MSNE
Douglas Hebda MECH
Garrett French MECH
Julianna Dickman MECH
Excellence in Capstone Engineering Award
Thermobile
Electric Vehicle Thermal Systems Design
Excellence in Graduate Engineering Award
FetalFocus
A Novel Off-the-shelf Fetoscope for Fetoscopic Surgery
Santiago Aparicio BIOE
Hannah Delatte BIOE
Travis Dowd BIOE
Abby Dowse BIOE
Excellence in Underclassman, Multi-year or Club Engineering Award copy
BioGals
Developing a Diagnostic Tool for Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis Using Glucose and Protein Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid
Navya Nanda
Vedha Penmetcha
Devika Shankar
Masha Osovskaya BIOE
Maria Contreras BIOE
Excellence in Freshman Engineering Award
Deja Vu
eVAN Dashboard
Evan Ho ECE
Joseph Engelking MECH
Aoife Shannon CHBE
Devika Dua BIOE
Best Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Award
Space Owls
Luminaire Intelligent Tracking
Aleix Estevadeordal MECH
Dante Garderet MECH
Ayaka Hoshida MECH
Chacko Mathai ECE
Jack Tomkiewicz ECE
Anthony Zheng ECE
Best Technology for Low-Resource Settings Award
CoreNeedle
Breast Core Needle Biopsy Trainer
Shivani Kulkarni
Philip DuBose
Celeste Wang
YiYi Yang MSNE
Best Medical Device Technology Award
UroFlo
Irrigation Automation
Anushka Agrawal BIOE
Kevin Li BIOE
Archit Chabbi BIOE
Robert Heeter BIOE
Richard Chan BIOE
Sahana Prasanna BIOE
Best Gaming, Creative or Innovative Technology Award
Lock-Smiths
Smart Bike Lock
Charlie Lockyer CS
Benjamin Otting
Best Environment and Sustainability Engineering Design Award
PRISM
Wind Turbine Blade Reuse/Recycle
Reece Lusich MECH
Marc Armeña MECH S
hannon Dunwell MECH
Peter Reynolds MECH
Isabella Avilez MECH
Best Energy-Related Engineering Design Award
Club - Rice Wind Energy
Wind Turbine Design
Raj Anthony ECE
Elliot Chae ECE
Maya Chhong MECH
Izzie Driewer MECH
Esther Fahel MECH
Rachel Kim MECH
James Mahoney MECH
Best Conceptual or Computational Engineering Design Award
Kirubel G.
Computational Modeling of Particle Filled Composites for Finite Deformations using Representative Volume Elements
Kirubel Ghebreab MECH
Best Aerospace or Transportation Technology Award
Club - Rice Flight
SAE Aero Advanced Competition 2023
OEDK Staff Favorite Award
Sea++
Autonomous Sailboat
Antonio Crivello MECH
Ethan Kelly MECH
Jonah Wagner MECH
Jordan Martin MECH
Evan Dunbar ECE
Samatar Dalmar ECE
Darrell Good ECE
OVER $14,000 in Prizes!
SHOWCASE AWARDS for 2024
TOP Award:
$5000 Woods Leazar Innovation Award - First Place: Excellence in Engineering
Top Level Awards:
$1000 Excellence in Freshman Engineering Design Award- Teams must ONLY have freshman members
$1000 Excellence in Underclassman or Club Engineering Design Award- Teams must involve non-senior students
$1000 Excellence in Capstone Engineering Design Award- Teams must be from a capstone/senior engineering design course (2 Awards)
Category Awards:
$750 Best Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Award: Students on team must come from 2 or more disciplines
$500 Best Conceptual or Computational Modeling Engineering Design Award- Team must have NO physical prototype
$500 Best Technology for Low-Resource Settings Design Award
$500 Best Energy-Related Engineering Design Award
$500 Best Medical Device Technology Award
$500 Best Environment and Sustainability Engineering Design Award
$500 Best Computational Technologies for Health and Wellness Design Award
$500 Best Gaming, Creative or Innovative Technology Award
$500 Best Aerospace or Transportation Technology Award
$500 Best Robotics Technology Award
Crowd Voted:
$500 People's Choice Award - voted on by judges, faculty, staff, students, participants and guests
Contact usOshman Engineering Design Kitchen 6100 Main Street MS 390 | Houston, Texas | 77005 Phone: 713.348.OEDK Email: oedk@rice.edu | Lead Industry Partners
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