Meet our Award Winners

The Endeavour Awards Night recognises the hard work of our students and celebrates their projects. Winning projects are recognised with department awards, industry-sponsored awards and the People's Choice Award.

Congratulations to all our student groups who participated in the Endeavour Exhibition. Thank you to all of our industry partners for working with our students and attending the awards night.

Meet the semester 2, 2023 winners:

Discipline Awards

Biomedical Engineering

Discipline award:

Investigating Neural Stimulation to Stop Pancreatic Cancer - Caroline Quartermain

Merit awards:

Motion Correction in Positron Emission Tomography - Lisen Hockings
shapeShift: Building a Device to Allow Retinal Implant Users to Show us What They See - Keshav K P Mukund, Matthew Colbert
Robotics to Perform Biomedical Experiments - Nicola Konstantinidis, Shuke Wang

Chemical Engineering

Discipline award:

Simulation of Cultivated Meat Production - Freddie Briggs

No merit awards

Computing and Information Systems

Discipline award:

Gating Allocation Tool

Team members:

Peter Lo
Anjaney C Mahajan
Rob Schroder
Zhuocun Tang
Ying Mao
Joel Kenna
Haoran Duan
Dhakshayani Perumal
Heqing Bai
Bingqing Zhang

Merit award:

Artificial Intelligence and Music at Grainger Museum - Bingqing Chen, Ying Sima
Modelling Military Simulations: Distributing Complex Calculations Across Multiple Machines - Ho-Yu Cheng, Daniel Hawkins, James Hollingsworth, Terran Kroft, Akshara Sundarakrishnan, Grant Upson, Mengjiao Wei, Rakhitha Withanage, Junrong Wu, Xin Xiang

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Discipline award:

Simplified Silicon Foundry at the University of Melbourne

Team members:

Jimmy Sun
Ryan Tan
Yumin Li

Merit awards:

Intelligent Chess Board with Wireless Charging of Touch-Sensitive Chess Pieces - Quoc Bao Pham, Daler Singh, Amjad Khalil, Haowei Zhang
Implementation and Application of Radar - Rushan Ymer Tucker, Craig Ward

Infrastructure Engineering

Discipline award:

Do We Live in a Kappa World? Investigating Probability Distributions for Extreme Rainfall

Team members:

Robert Strong
Olivia Borgstroem

Merit awards:

Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Structural Insulated Panel Systems using Sustainable Bio Products and Laminates - Nathan Apostokalos, Stephen He, Crystal Li, Sol Zimmermann
Can Marine Energy Mitigate Climate Change Effects in Coastal Waters? - Emilie Catel
Durability of Graphene Oxide (GO) Modified Concrete Composites Exposed to Acidic Attack - Zhu Yang Lim, James Liaw, Yik Pang Cheung
PFAS in Wastewater Treatment Plants and Identifying Technical Solutions for Water Authorities - Navindu De Silva, Hamish McKenzie, Leon Sun
Upcycling Decommissioned Subsea Flowline as Value-Added Materials - Jinal Shah, Jiaxuan Hou

Mechanical Engineering

Discipline award:

Agricultural Motorised Cart Attachment for People with Disability in Cambodia

Team members:

Truman Gerner
James Tang
Yu Yue

Merit awards:

Water Usage at Asahi Beverages - Hai Dang Tran, Le Trung Duc Nguyen
Optimising Composite Manufacturing Processes at Boeing - Nick Oag, Riley Kirkland