Peking University, Dec. 7, 2012: The First Engineering Design Contest for students successfully concluded at Peking University recently, generating one Top Prize, three First Prizes, five Second Prizes, six Third Prizes and 10 Participant Award. The creative and easy-to-use design “Anti-procrastination Secretary” submitted by students Liu Xuan, Yang Tingyun, Wang Yu from the College of Engineering and the Department of Psychology won the top prize. 
 

The contest, organized by the College of Engineering and the Youth League Committee, and sponsored by the College of Engineering, was launched in April 2012, with a prize pool of 200,000 yuan. It encourages students to demonstrate creativity and put their ideas into real products or designs. The participants need to produce an engineering design, invention or product, which is based on their original ideas, scientific and practical for use. To achieve that, they need to utilize what they already knew, to explore the unknown and to seek advice from professionals and teachers.

Altogether 46 participating works were submitted by students from 15 colleges and departments of the university. Some of the projects attempt to solve health problems that people are highly concerned, for instance utilizing robots to provide health status monitoring and household services. Some works focus on improving daily life and studies with creative designs. And some aim to work out detailed practice in industries.

In the contest final, each of the teams were allowed 5 minutes to demonstrate their work to the judges, introducing their project features and application prospective, and another 3 minutes to answer the judges’ questions. Finally, based on a comprehensive evaluation of the innovativeness, scientific content and practicality of the final product, the top prize was conferred to the project “Anti-procrastination Secretary”, a psychological theory-based anti-procrastination software for computer users, which helps restrict the user’s time spent in playing games by recording the user’s behavior. In addition, three projects "Smart Crib”, "Intelligent Health Care System" and “Auxiliary Rehabilitation Devices for Knees" won first prizes.

Dean Chen Shiyi said, “The College of Engineering values the spirit of innovation. It is what propels us to host this contest. I’m pleased to see many great inventions this year, and I will love to see more breakthrough in the future events.”

Edited by: Zhang Jiang
Source: College of Engineering