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Accepting Submissions
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
- Design was done by an undergraduate or graduate student design team
- Design was done as a project in a regular course
- Design was not a graduate or undergraduate research project or thesis project
- Design is a medical device
2026 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.
- All content, including figures, charts and reference list must be contained in the three page limit.
- The use of AI to generate text, tables, or figures is not allowed.
- For readability, margins must be at least one inch all around and body text must be no smaller than 11 point.
- Entries must have:
- Cover page with title (80 character limit) with the name of each student designer, university, department, course name and number, and contact information for the corresponding author.
- Two to three pages with three sections:
- A description of the problem you are trying to solve, including describing current or competing solutions
- A description of your design, including a rendering that best describes the concept
- 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
- Submission document must be a single PDF file.
- A student author must serve as the lead/contact author.