Fwd: Create the Future Design Contest -2015 (GRAND PRIZE (1): $20,000 USD)

[manoj yadav]

Dear Students,

Please find below details of contest on "Create the Future Design Contest -2015" is a global contest. Kindly find the details are given below for your information and for students’ submission the best new product ideas in this contest.

GRAND PRIZE (1): $20,000 USD, provided by COMSOL and Mouser Electronics

Contest Website: http://contest.techbriefs.com/2015

Contest Rules: http://contest.techbriefs.com/contest-rules

Deadline: 1^st July 2015 Last Date

Eligibility :  For Everyone

 

 

Regards,

Manoj Kumar Yadav

Project Coordinator(CSE)

Mob:7042431751

 

 

Sponsored By:

 

SPONSORS

The Primary Sponsors of the 2015 Create the Future Design Contest (the “Contest”) are Tech Briefs Media Group (an SAE International Company), COMSOL, Inc., and Mouser Electronics.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

The Contest opens for entries on March 1, 2015 and closes July 1, 2015 (referred to herein as the Contest Live Period). Entries must be received by 11:59 pm ET on July 1, 2015. For your entry to qualify for consideration, you must meet the following requirements:

• Complete the Official Entry Form and upload at least one image with your entry.
• Choose one of seven categories for your entry:
• Aerospace & Defense -- Product innovations with applications in the aerospace, aviation, and/or defense markets.
• Automotive/Transportation -- Products that enable movement of people and goods from one place to another.
• Consumer Products -- Products that increase quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, or while traveling.
• Electronics -- Products that improve computing, communications, and other fields that rely on advances in electronic components, boards and systems.
• Machinery/Automation/Robotics -- Products that speed, improve, and/or automate work, manufacturing, and research & development (R&D).
• Medical Products -- Products that improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare.
• Sustainable Technologies -- Products that reduce dependence on non-renewable energy resources, as well as products designed for other purposes using environmentally friendly materials or manufacturing processes.
• Provide a description of your entry (up to 500 words) in the form of a technical abstract, in English. You will be judged on these criteria: 
• Innovation (50% of score)
• Manufacturability (25%)
• Marketability (25%)
• Upload at least one (but no more than three) visual illustrations. File type options: PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, EDRW. The visual illustration(s) should complement your entry description and can be drawings, photos, charts, or CAD images. 

Entries submitted without an illustration automatically will be disqualified, no exceptions. We cannot accept PowerPoint presentations, white papers, or other documents as illustrations. All descriptive text should be entered in the space provided on the Entry Form. Text on illustrations should be limited to captions or call outs.

Video: You also have the option of submitting video to support your entry (limited to one video per entry). Maximum length: three minutes. First, upload your video to YouTube, Veoh, or Vimeo. Then, when you complete the Entry Form, provide the link to the video where indicated on the form. We cannot accept any video files by e-mail. Video is optional and will not factor in the judging for the major prizes.

Prototypes: It is NOT required to have a prototype of your product. However, if a working prototype does exist, please indicate this where asked on the Entry Form. Entrants are encouraged to include an illustration of their prototype with the entry materials.

If you are having difficulty submitting your entry, please contact us.

 

JUDGING

To select the Grand Prize and Category winners, and to determine the Top 100 entries overall, Tech Briefs Media Group will recruit a minimum of 24 judges from NASA Tech Briefs magazine’s editorial board of readers. The judging panel also will be open to one representative from each Primary Sponsor. The judges are prohibited from entering the contest themselves or evaluating entries from any organization at which they are employed. All decisions of the judges will be final.

 

VOTING

Most Popular Entries will be decided by the voting of registered users of the contest Web site. Voting will be open until September 11, 2015 (11:59 pm ET). These votes will have no bearing on the selection of Grand Prize or Category winners, or the Top 100 Entries. Each registrant is allowed one vote per entry. Votes will not count if the registrant does not accurately complete all of the required fields on the registration form or if the registrant attempts to enter fraudulent data. The Contest Administrators will adjust the vote counts at any point in the competition to discount votes from registrants who have not registered properly or who attempt to vote for a single entry multiple times (including any attempt to use e-mail aliases). Voter registration data will be kept in strict confidence and used only for verification, to ensure a fair voting process.

Winners will be notified by phone, email, and/or direct mail, and announced in September 2015.

 

PRIZES

Grand Prize (1)
$20,000 USD, provided by COMSOL and Mouser Electronics

First Prize in Each Category (7)
A workstation computer provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Popular Vote Prizes (10)
Ollie robotic gaming device provided by Sphero

Top 100 Entries (100)
Certificate of Achievement suitable for framing

 

RESTRICTIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS

• No purchase necessary to enter or win. There is no cost to enter the Contest.
• The odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible entries. Sponsors cannot predict the odds of winning as they have no prior knowledge of the number of entrants who will participate.
• Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. Employees and the immediate families of the Primary Sponsors, their parent companies, subsidiaries, representatives, and advertising/promotion agencies are not eligible and prohibited from entering.
• The Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
• Entries may be submitted by an individual or a design team. Team members may also submit entries on their own, provided those entries are substantially different than entries submitted by the team.
• The entrant, whether an individual or a team, may submit multiple different entries to the Contest but is allowedonly one entry per category.
• Entries must be submitted electronically per the instructions on the Entry Form.
• Entries must be for product designs that either: 1) are not yet in commercial production at the time of entry, or (2) were introduced to the commercial market within the last 12 months of entry date. Products that have been commercially available for more than 12 months at time of entry are not eligible.
• By entering, entrants warrant that to the best of their knowledge: (1) their entry is an original idea; (2) they are authorized by the owner of the design to enter the design in the contest; and that (3) the design does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.
• The entrant or the entrant's company, whichever applies, retains ownership of the design ideas submitted for the Contest.
• Contest Sponsors shall not be liable to an entrant for the commercialization of ideas that have been independently developed without the use of the entrant's submission.
• Entrants shall have the option to display all or part of their entry information on the contest web site during the Contest Live Period. If they elect not to do so and prefer to “hide” their entry from public view, their submission will be maintained in confidence by the Primary Sponsors until the winners are announced. If the entry is selected as a Grand Prize, Category, or Popular Vote winner, or as an Honorable Mention, the entry will be made public in September 2015 when the winners are announced.
• Entrants grant the Sponsors permission to contact them using the information provided on the contest entry form, including name, address, email address, and phone number.
• Sponsors are not responsible for any expenses incurred by entrants in connection with participation in the Contest, and will not return any materials submitted to the Contest.
• The Sponsors reserve the right to disqualify entries that are frivolous or fail to meet the entry requirements as described in these Official Rules. The Sponsors also reserve the right to remove any entry information or comments from the Contest web site that they deem objectionable or obscene.
• The Contest may be terminated at the Primary Sponsors' sole discretion.
• Prizes cannot be substituted or redeemed for cash except at the Primary Sponsors' sole discretion. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if a prize cannot be awarded as described for any reason.
• All federal, state, local, municipal, income, and other taxes (if any) are the sole responsibility of the winners.
• Any prize won by a team will be distributed to the team leader designated on the entry form.
• Entrants are authorized to and approve the use of images created from entry visuals provided for use in marketing materials to be produced by the Primary Sponsors and their assigns, including use on web sites. Entrants are authorized to and do grant the Primary Sponsors, their affiliates, and assigns the right to use, reproduce, or incorporate in any manner whatsoever all or any portion of the aforementioned images. Entrants represent and warrant that the materials are owned by them or their company free and clear of any liens or claims of any third-party, that they have a legal right to grant the permission herein given on behalf of themselves, their company, or a third party, if appropriate. Furthermore, the entrant agrees that he/she/they, or, if the design is owned by his/her/their company, that his/her/their company will indemnify and hold harmless the Primary Sponsors, their affiliates, assigns, agents, and employees, against liability should any third-party claim that the use of the materials by the Primary Sponsors, their affiliates, assigns, agents, and employees violates any right of such third party to the materials.
• Entrants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of the Primary Sponsors/judges, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Contest. By entering, they agree to waive any right to claim ambiguity or error in these Official Rules. Except where prohibited by law, the winners consent to the use of their name and/or likeness by the Primary Sponsors for advertising and publicity purposes without further compensation. Each entrant agrees that the Primary Sponsors and other Sponsors of the Contest and their parent companies, agents, representatives, affiliates, and employees will have no liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting from his/her participation in the Contest, or resulting from the acceptance of prizes.
• The Contest Sponsors assume no responsibility for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer systems, servers, software, Internet service providers, or e-mail systems; failure of any entry to be received on account of technical problems or incomplete, late, lost, damaged, illegible or misdirected electronic communications; or any combination thereof, including damage to entrants' or anyone else's computer equipment related to or resulting from participation or downloading of any materials in this Contest.
• Participation in the Contest constitutes an agreement by each entrant, including all members of a team in the case of a team entry, to be bound by these Official Contest Rules. Sponsors reserve the right to disqualify persons found tampering with or otherwise abusing any aspect of this Contest as solely determined by the Sponsors. In the event the Contest is compromised by non-authorized human intervention, tampering or other causes beyond the reasonable control of Sponsors that corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper operation of the Contest, the Primary Sponsors reserve the right to suspend, modify or terminate the Contest. Caution: Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any web site or undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Sponsors reserve the right to seek damages from any such entrant to the fullest extent permitted by law.
• By entering the Contest, the entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the Contest, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action; (2) any claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred in entering the Contest, but in no event attorney's fees; and (3) under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred in entering the contest.
• The Sponsors are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest. 

IN NO EVENT WILL THE CONTEST SPONSORS, THEIR LICENSEES, AND OR THEIR PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM ACCESS TO, OR USE OF, THIS WEB SITE, ELECTRONIC OR COMPUTER MALFUNCTIONS, OR ENTRANT PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST, EVEN IF SPONSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING PROVIDED FOR THE CONTEST INCLUDING ANY SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

 

TIPS FOR ENTRANTS

The best entries clearly and concisely answer all of the following questions and are accompanied by an illustration that complements and illuminates the text:

• What problem does your design idea solve?
• What are the potential benefits?
• How is your idea novel or an improvement on what is currently available in the marketplace?
• Where would this idea be applied?
• What is the market potential?
• How does your design work?
• How would your product be manufactured?
• How would the production cost compare with products already in the marketplace?

The best design ideas will serve a public good by:

• Improving quality of life
• Automating tedious tasks
• Preventing or reducing injuries
• Improving public safety and security
• Saving time and money
• Offering alternative energy solutions
• Reducing consumption of natural resources
• Reducing waste
• Enabling other product improvements

Questions? Contact Us.

 

 

CONTEST HISTORY

The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs magazine to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The annual event has attracted more than 10,000 product design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs, and students worldwide. The contest's principal sponsors are COMSOL and Mouser Electronics with Analog Devices and Intel as supporting sponsors.

Category sponsors include KAMAN, Imagineering Inc., and Maplesoft.

The contest is produced by Tech Briefs Media Group.

PRIMARY SPONSORS

COMSOL provides simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities through 20 offices and a distributor network throughout the world. Its flagship product, COMSOL Multiphysics®, is a software environment for modeling and simulating any physics-based system. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulation with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market. 
www.comsol.com

Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Mouser is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor, focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers and buyers. Mouser.com features more than 4 million products online from more than 500 manufacturers. Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year providing designers with up-to-date data on the components now available for the next generation of electronic devices. Mouser ships globally to over 400,000 customers in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. 
http://www.mouser.com

 

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

Innovation, performance, and excellence are the cultural pillars on which Analog Devices (ADI) has built one of the longest standing, highest growth companies within the technology sector. Acknowledged industry-wide as the world leader in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, Analog Devices serves over 60,000 customers, representing virtually all types of electronic equipment. Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. Analog Devices is included in the S&P 500 Index.
www.mouser.com/analog-devices

Intel is the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors and has established a heritage of innovation that continues to expand the reach and promise of computing while advancing the ways people work and live worldwide. Intel's entire processor portfolio provides design engineers with direct access to the industry's most advanced processors. Intel's industry-leading technologies are created using the most advanced foundry process technologies in the industry, producing unprecedented levels of performance and efficiency.
http://www.mouser.com/intel

 

CATEGORY SPONSORS

Electronics Category
Since 1985, Imagineering Inc. has been a pioneer in the industry for Electronic Manufacturing Services. With unparalleled customer service and a diverse product offering we have been regarded as a leader in quality and price in the industry. We also offer an industry first, Full Turnkey Quotes Online; Boards, Labor and Components all at one place all at one time. Join the Revolution happening now at www.pcbnet.com.

Automotive/Transportation Category
We measure small distances with high precision using inductive technology. We’re engineers with a passion for innovative solutions, the resources to handle big programs and a dedicated applications lab, so we can test before you commit. We understand schedules and budgets. Kaman is your solution.
www.kamansensors.com

Machinery/Automation/Robotics Category
Maplesoft™, a subsidiary of Cybernet Systems Co. Ltd. in Japan, is the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics. Its product suite reflects the philosophy that given great tools, people can do great things.

Maplesoft’s core technologies include the world’s most advanced symbolic computation engine and revolutionary physical modeling techniques. Combined together, these technologies enable the creation of cutting-edge tools for design, modeling, and high-performance simulation.
www.maplesoft.com

 

PRIZE SPONSORS

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. With the broadest technology portfolio spanning printing, personal systems, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP delivers solutions for customers' most complex challenges in every region of the world.
www.hp.com/go/zworkstations

As the industry leader in Connected Play, Sphero is defining the future of fun. They create connected toys, fusing emerging technology with the latest innovations in robotics. Unlike traditional toys, their robots and software allow them to create ever-evolving experiences – changing the way people play, learn and explore.
http://gosphero.com/

 

CONTEST PRODUCER

Tech Briefs Media Group
Tech Briefs Media Group, an SAE International Company, is publisher of NASA Tech Briefs, the largest-circulation design-engineering magazine worldwide and Aerospace & Defense Technology, the largest-circulation engineering magazine for the mil/aero market. The Tech Briefs Media Group product line has grown to include print/digital advertising, email/web products, virtual events, seminars & conferences, custom media and content related advertising. Additional publications include Automotive Engineering, Off-Highway Engineering, and Medical Design Briefs. Combined, these products reach over 1 million engineers and managers worldwide.
www.techbriefsmedia.com