Ray Meyer Medal for Excellence in Student Design
-Sponsored by GHD
Background Information
Critera
Award Winners
Entries for the Ray Meyer Medal for Excellence in Student Design 2009 are now open. To download the 2009 entry form click here.
International professional services company GHD has a vibrant, nine-years young New Zealand business, recognised as one of New Zealand’s Fast 50 companies and, in February 2008, announced as one of New Zealand’s “Best Places to Work”.
GHD’s focus is on clients, people and performance. They are delighted to sponsor the Ray Meyer Medal and support young New Zealanders in their pursuit of fresh ideas and bright futures.
Professor Ray Meyer DistFIPENZ was President of IPENZ in 1982-1983 and Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Auckland from 1971-1974 and again from 1978-1992. Throughout his career he was actively involved in design and commercialisation of research. He has held and holds positions on the governing boards of a number of companies in all of which excellence in engineering is essential to their business. He was awarded the ONZM for his contributions to engineering and education. This award is named in recognition of his achievements and seeks to encourage a new generation of innovative engineering designers.
The Ray Meyer Medal for Excellence in Student Design is awarded to the student or group of students presenting the best final year design project as part of an IPENZ accredited qualification, as determined against the following judging criteria:
- Clear specification of requirements and constraints
- Identification and preliminary evaluation of potential solutions
- Detailed technical analysis of one or more preferred solution options
- Detailed evaluation of a preferred solution against the requirements and constraints
- Consideration of social, environmental and economic impacts
- Quality of presentation and its communication of ideas
Beyond these formal criteria the judges will be looking for innovation in design solutions recognising that design is essentially a creative activity.
The award is open to all fields of engineering in which IPENZ accredits qualifications. Design projects are not only undertaken in subjects labelled Design Project but may also be found in some final year Research Projects where the object is to design, build and demonstrate a new or improved device.
The Award consists of a medal and certificate presented at the annual IPENZ Fellows’ and Achievers’ Awards Dinner held in a main centre in March following adjudication of entries received at the end the previous academic year in December. The winners and the nominator will be assisted in meeting reasonable travel costs within New Zealand to attend the dinner presentation.
Citations for the Ray Meyer Medal for Excellence in Student Design can be found in the public area of the website in the April issues of engineering dimension.
| 2008 | Nifty Lifter Jason Greaves, Rhys Hayward, Bundit Kijalakorn and Ibrahim Sugawara Ahmad, supervised by Dr Keith Alexander The Nifty Lifter project designed, built and tested as a self-operated lifting device that would enable a disabled, paraplegic person to move comfortably from the driver’s seat of their car to a wheelchair that had been lowered electrically from the roof. Working with a disabled person the project impressed the judges with the care that had been taken in determining the requirements that had to be met, the thoroughness with which the alternatives had been examined, the solution that been produced and the testing and modifications that had been made in achieving the final design. The project featured on Campbell Live on TV3 on 29 February 2008. |
IPENZ Student Design Award 1999-2006
