James Dyson Award

The James Dyson Award is an international student design award in the fields of product design, industrial design and engineering.

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Description

The James Dyson Award is open to university level students and rewards those who "design something that solves a problem". The award is run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to get young people involved in 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, Thailand, 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.
2020 Judit Giró for The Blue Box, a biomedical device for pain-free, non-irradiating, low-cost, in-home breast cancer testing.
2021 Kelu Yu, Si Li and David Lee for HOPES, a device for pain-free, at-home eye pressure testing, opening up access to glaucoma testing. Joseph Bentley for REACT, a technology that stems bleeding to help save stabbing victims’ lives. Jerry de Vos for Plastic Scanner, a low-cost, handheld device to identify plastic for recycling.