School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

2023 EECS Innovation Showcase

14 Nov 2023
​Since 2012, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has been hosting its annual Innovation Showcase event, which highlights a range of premier end-of-year and capstone student projects.

Students who took part in the event were eligible to win $1,000 AUD in prize money, generously sponsored by various industry organisations including: The Australian Power Institute (API), E2EFi Platforms, Emesent, Boeing, Cochlear,  Data#3, Inspect Real Estate, RGB Assurance, Rinstrum, Shorthand, GridQube, L3Harris Technologies, .au Domain Administration, Optiver, and UQ Ventures.

On the evening of Thursday 2 November, over 90 students (across 48 projects) were able to showcase their end-of-year projects to industry sponsors and guests, VIPs and the wider UQ community. This year, 16 industry-sponsored prizes were awarded to outstanding projects in a range of categories including avionics, cyber security, user experience design, and extended reality. Head of School, Professor Michael Brünig gave an address and awarded the prizes at the conclusion of the event.

More information about the nominated projects and photos of the event can be found on the event website.

Congratulations to the following prize winners:

Best Project in Power and Energy Systems, sponsored by The Australian Power Institute

  • "Experimental Fault Analysis in DFIG Wind Turbines" by Blake Rowden (Supervisor: Dr Richard Yan)
  • "Is DOE the Solution to Fixing Australia’s Demand Curve?" by Thomas Jellet (Supervisor: Professor Tapan Saha)

Best Distributed Ledger Project, sponsored by E2EFi Platforms

Emesent Diversity Prize, sponsored by Emesent

Best Project in Avionics and UAV, sponsored by Boeing

  • "Tiny Giant Robot 2: Striking a Balance" by Deren Teo (Supervisor: Dr Pauline Pounds)

Best Biomedical Device or Systems Prize, sponsored by Cochlear

Best Cyber Security and Data Privacy Project, sponsored by Data#3

  • "FPGA packet filter with Ethernet MAC and web server using a RISC-V softcore processor" by Matthew Gilpin (Supervisor: Dr Matthew D'Souza)

Best Non-Thesis Project, sponsored by Inspect Real Estate

  • "Air Quality Monitoring Flower" by Wilko Grunefeld and Chelsea White (Supervisor: Dr Matthew D'Souza)

Best Electrical Engineering Project, sponsored by Optiver

  • "Detecting and Classifying Neurofibromas using Deep Learning" by Georgia Power and Jinghao Lim (Supervisor: Professor Brian Lovell)

Les Dobson Memorial Prize: Best Project in Systems and Software Engineering, sponsored by RGB Assurance

  • "Tiny Giant Robot 2: Striking a Balance" by Deren Teo (Supervisor: Dr Pauline Pounds)

Best Hardware Solution, sponsored by Rinstrum

  • “Designing a Soil Respiration Chamber" by Thomas Salpietro (Supervisor: Dr Matthew D'Souza)

Best User Experience Design, sponsored by Shorthand

  • "Sprout" by Caleb Ang, Lachlan Benson, Eugene Chong, Li-Sung Ou, Hoang Ly Phung, and Nisha Vashist (Supervisor: Dr Mashhuda Glencross)

Best Software Project, sponsored by GridQube

Best Project in Microwave, Photonics and Communications, sponsored by L3Harris Technologies

  • "Applications of Software Defined Radios on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance" by Mark Nothdurft (Supervisor: Dr Konstanty Bialkowski)

Project with the Most Commercial Potential, sponsored by .au Domain Administration

  • "Sprout" by Caleb Ang, Lachlan Benson, Eugene Chong, Li-Sung Ou, Hoang Ly Phung, and Nisha Vashist (Supervisor: Dr Mashhuda Glencross)

Most Innovative Use of XR, sponsored by UQ Ventures

  • "Applications of Software Defined Radios on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance" by Suki Zhang (Supervisor: Dr Nell Baghaei)

People’s Choice Award, sponsored by UQ Ventures & the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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