The Winners: 2015 Fifth Annual ASEE Student Design & Manufacturing Competition

Judges and honor guest:

  • Mr. Pierre Devaux, Senior Territory Manager, DS SolidWorks Corporation, San Francisco, California
  • Dr. Christopher Pung, Professor, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Dr. John Tester, Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
  • Dr. Vahid Motevalli, Dean, Tennessee Technological University, Tennessee


First Place


Alex Gamlbe, Daniel Larsen, Keilah Bias, and Spencer Montgomery.
“Charcoal Press for Kenyan Farmer,” University of Price Esward Island, Canada.


Second Place

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John Boone, Andrew Crain, Mark Meister, Oleksander Pankovets, Bikramjit Singh, and Xiaopeng Bi.
“Harvesting Unused Energy From Water,” Washington State University, Washington, USA.


Third Place

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Sheril Loke, Wei Jian Yeap, Alwin Ng, and Adam Farmer.
“Fuel From Food (F3): the Sustainable Energy Source,” Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.


Most Creative

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Sheril Loke, Wei Jian Yeap, Alwin Ng, and Adam Farmer.
“Fuel From Food (F3): the Sustainable Energy Source,” Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.


Other Participants

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Stephan Goertzen, Josh Sauder, Jordan Leaman, Alec Thibodeaux, and Esther Tian.
“Solar Powered Chicken Coop,” Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA.


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Emily Zhang, Michael Zhang, and Hanzhi Xiang.
“EW3 Bot,” Madison Central High School and Savannah High School, Missouri, USA.


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Guiming Chen, Yu-Ren Chen, and Fatin Baharuddin.
“Design An Agricultural Drone to Plant Seeds,” Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.


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Joshua Carroll and Michael Stokes.
“The Development of a Golden Eagle Solar Tracking Unit,” Tennessee Technological University, Tennessee, USA.


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Zhujian Feng, Everardo Granda, and Wayne Hung.
“Process Selection for Energy Efficiency,” Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.
[Note: This team presented on behalf of another team from the same school per Competition Rules]