National Instruments (NI), the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, has announced the finalists chosen for the Engineering Impact Awards. The NI Engineering Impact Awards is a technical application contest, showcasing the most innovative projects based on NI software and hardware. This prestigious event is to be held in the RSA house on the evening of the 28th of November. NI will commend and award these incredible engineers in the building in which Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the telephone: a pioneering application much like the work of these finalists.
A total of eight categories are competed for on the evening and attendees from all industries will be in present including press, partners and analysts. Several finalists will also be presenting their applications the next day at the NIDays graphical system design conference taking place in the Queen Elizabeth II, London.
The finalists are:
RF & Wireless Comms
· World Records in 5G Wireless Spectral Efficiency Using Massive MIMO
Bristol and Lund Universities http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17101
· Co-Radar: Combining Two Technologies to Increase Efficiency of Airborne, Space-Borne, and Ground-Based Platforms
University of Strathclyde – http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17259?nisrc=RSS-featured-en
Precision Control
· Adaptive Truss: Structural strength when you need it
UCL http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17210
· Revolutionary Control System for Refinishing Diamond Cut Alloy Wheels
Austin Consultants Ltd http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17250
Innovative Research
· Kinelab: Assessing the Motor-Cognitive Skills of School Children with LabVIEW
ReSolve Research Engineering Ltd http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17234
· Recording the Elusive Courtship Song of Fruit Flies
Oxford University http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17145
Electronic Test and Measurement
· Train Zero Model Based Design Facility
Bombardier & Frazer-Nash http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17114#
· Sun Explorer: Reliability Testing for The Solar Orbiter Instrumentation
ESR Technology Ltd http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17189
Physical Test and Measurement
· Characterizing Levitating Space Dust with 3D Scatterometry
University of Helsinki http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17239
· Monitoring and Controlling the Canning Town Flyover Above Crossrail Tunnel Boring Machine
Mabey Hire Ltd http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17244
Biomedical
· Combating Unilateral Facial Paralysis with Low-Latency Muscle Reanimation
Tampere University of Technology http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17222
· Saving Lives with the Innovative Bedside Equipment Monitoring System
TBG Solutions http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17173
Education
· MSc Physics Students Take Ownership of Their Learning with LabVIEW
Cardiff University http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17230
· Teaching Measurement and Control to 400 Engineering Students Using Mobile Robots and Quadcopters
University of Manchester http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17195
Student Design (Winner Decided by Public Vote)
· Stratos II+ Rocket: Smashing the European Altitude Record
TU Delft https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47792
· Colorophone: Enabling Blind People to Listen to Light
NTNU https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47821
· Project ALAN: Robotic Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors
University of Leeds https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-46580
· DeepFreezeROV: Underwater Robot for Arctic Research
Aarhus University https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47636
· Roadrunners: The Most Fuel Efficient Urban Car in the World
DTU https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47919
· Augmented Communication: Turning Breath into Words
Loughborough University https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47488
