James Dyson Award
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 in the fields of product design, industrial design and engineering. 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 studied in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland,
India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom or the United States.
One national winner and four finalists are chosen from each country. James Dyson selects an international winner for the overall prize.Winners
;International winners
- 2007 Maxi Pantel for the Senjo, an electronic device for the deaf to communicate with the hearing.
- 2008 Michael Chen for the Reactiv, a motion-activated LED safety jacket for cycling.
- 2009 Yusuf Muhammad and Paul Thomas for Automist, a kitchen-faucet sprinkler system that controls residential fires.
- 2010 Samuel Adeloju for Longreach, water floating device for saving victims in water.
- 2011 Edward Linacre for Airdrop, extracts water from the air and delivers it directly to plant roots through a network of subterranean piping.
- 2012 Dan Watson for SafetyNet, a new commercial fishing net to allow smaller and unwanted fish to escape.
- 2013 University of Pennsylvania team 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.
- 2014 James Roberts for MOM, a portable inflatable incubator. Award: $45,000 + $5,000 to the University.
- 2015 University of Waterloo team for the Voltera V-One, a laptop-sized printed circuit board printer. Award: $45,000 + $7,500 to the University.
- 2016 Isis Shiffer for the EcoHelmet, a paper bicycle helmet. Award: $45,000.
- 2017 Michael Takla, Rotimi Bhavsar, Prateek Mathur for The sKan a device using thermal maps of the skin to detect melanomas.
- 2018 Nicolas Orellana, Yaseen Noorani for the O-Wind Turbine.
- 2019 Lucy Hughes for MarinaTex, a biodegradable plastic made from fish off cuts.
