Student Design Showcase Open

Student Research Teams are invited to submit their work to the 14th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference Student Design Showcase. The purpose of the showcase is to promote and publicize excellence in medical device design by teams of undergraduate and graduate students conducted as part of their course work. Outstanding student designs will be selected to compete in a live poster session held during the Design of Medical Devices Conference. The top three teams will receive one of three cash prizes.

Eligibility:

1. Design was done by an undergraduate or graduate student design team
2. Design was done as a project in a regular course
3. Design was not a graduate or undergraduate research project or thesis project
4. Design is a medical device

2025 Submissions Instructions

• A document containing concise engineering writing that describes the design.
• You are free to format the paper in the style you think is best for an engineering reader to understand your design. Entry must have:
  • Cover page with title (80 character limit), name of each student designer, university, department, course name and course number, and contact information for the corresponding author (email and telephone)
  • Two to three pages with three sections:
    Section 1- A description of the problem you are trying to solve, including describing current or competing solutions
    Section 2- A description of your design, including a rendering that best describes the concept
    Section 3- An evaluation, including results of testing, that demonstrates your design does or could work to its intended purpose. As appropriate, include a high-quality image of your prototype
• All content, including figures, charts and reference list must be contained in the three page limit.
• For readability, margins must be at least one inch all around and body text must be no smaller than 11 point.
• Submission document must be a single PDF file.
• A student author should serve as the lead/contact.