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University of Oxford Engineers in Business Competition – 2022

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The Maurice Lubbock Poster Competition provides an amazing platform for students to showcase their innovations to representatives from industry and Government, alumni, academics and fellow students who attend the Lubbock Lecture.

The competition is supported by the Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Management (EEM) pathway in the third and fourth years of the students’ degree in Oxford. This option is taught in coordination with the Saïd Business School and provides dedicated courses to those students who are competitively selected for this pathway. The topic is introduced through a business lab that is run in the second year. This year the university introduced the Engineers in Business prize.

The competition is judged by a panel of recent Engineering Science graduates who assess the entries for inventiveness, clarity of presentation and overall quality.

 

Third Year Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Management (EEM) Best Project - Joint Winner: Digital Engagement for Users with a Limb Difference

Callum Long, George Drayson, Putuchon Vongvorakul and William Nakhoul (pictured) who are all studying for an MEng (Engineering Science) degree – £750  Engineers in Business Prize

The “digital engagement for users with a limb difference” project won for exploring how human-computer interaction can be improved for those with a limb difference. The team developed a method that allows users with different levels of arm function to fully engage with a virtual/augmented environment. It was an excellent example of how engineering can provide better access to digital technology for all.

Third Year Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Management (EEM) Best Project - Joint Winner: ArjiCat Autonomous Service Robot

Jiale Wang, BA Engineering Science; Catherine Ning, MEng (Engineering Science) and Arjun Bhanap, (MEng Engineering Science) – £750  Engineers in Business Prize

Designing the ArjiCat Autonomous Service Robot project focused on a growing future biomedical engineering field. The team designed a robot for dispensing medication, with an aim to increase hospital efficiency and reduce wastage. They engaged with stakeholders to determine the value proposition and created a strong fit with their suggested technology. A strong business case was made based on well-presented research.

The ArjiCat team was a finalist in the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions Final in October 2022 – you can read more about this here.

 

Fourth Year Best Engineering Poster Competition - Winner: Collaborative Recommender Systems for Multi-Stakeholder Data-Sparse Commercial Marketplaces

Rhim Shah, MEng (Engineering Science) – £1,000 Engineers in Business Prize

Rhim Shah’s Collaborative Recommender Systems for Multi-Stakeholder Data-Sparse Commercial Marketplaces is an impressive project that explores recommender systems, which are used in many digital marketplaces. It generates novel insights into multi-stakeholder recommender systems in sparse environments. It was shown that this could be a highly effective way to operate in these extremely sparse environments. There is a clear broad commercial application, which will only grow further in the future.

A runner-up Engineers in Business prize of £500 was also awarded to Annabelle Evans for her Soft-Robotics Wearable Device for Rehabilitation of Achilles Tendon Rupture.  The project provided a clear overview of the identification of a problem for which a suitable engineering solution was developed. Testing included real-world testing and verification and the project attracted direct industry interest. This work completed a full design engineering cycle with evidence of market traction at the end of it.