EnGenius 2025 prize winners

See the EnGenius 2025 prize winners, as judged by academic assessment at EnGenius 2025.

As part of EnGenius, the School of Engineering awarded a prize to the best project from six engineering disciplines based on academic assessment.

The following projects were acknowledged as best capstone projects during a prize ceremony event.

Overall EnGenius Prize 2025

Awarded to the best project, as judged by academic assessment at EnGenius 2025

Modelling of Intracortical neuronal recording

  • Sian McConchie
  • Rana Jaylani

Finalists

Design and Testing of an Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Apparatus

  • Joshua Fama Cutajar
  • Akhilesh Vickneswaran
  • Dylan Ewan
  • Sarujan Srikaran

Transforming Healthcare with Cutting-Edge Lab-on-a-chip platforms

  • Sarah Thompson
  • Katapol Kamolchanokkul

Novel mulit-metallic electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction

  • Zachary Roberts
  • Hamish Davies

AND

Novel liquid metal catalysts for thermocatalytic applications

  • Jet James
  • Mei Ting Su

Damage identification of a suspension bridge using structural dynamics

  • Ethan Franklin
  • Mark Pericic
  • Joseph Macula
  • Robert Campbell

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create a Tritium (3H) in Precipitation data set for Timor-Leste

  • Aidan Sealey
  • Sahas Walpita Gamage
  • Cameron Wiltshire
  • Oscar Mcmullen

Investigating the impacts of increase in penetration of household and community solar-PV, battery storage and EVs on Australian power system

  • Simon Panniker
  • Raed Abdulkarim A Almohammdi
  • Omar Mahamud
  • Lachlan Blakiston

STeREO – Scheduling, Tracking, Receiving and Processing of Satellite Earth Observation Data

  • Christopher Tait
  • Hong Yu Lim
  • Justin Puah
  • Brendon Chhean
  • Lam Tran Tung
  • Adrija Paul

At these manufacturer of thermal systems

  • Xavier Chung
  • Noah Tiatto
  • James Chesterman
  • Adrian Noel Surroca

High-precision object tracking: intelligent MedTech prototyping with computer vision and AI

  • San Tu
  • Gabriel Callado
  • Yazan Fayez A Althobaiti
  • Daniel Pantaleo
  • Robert Nganga Nyaga
  • William Fursman

Design and Development of a 3D-Printed Waterjet Propulsion System for Uncrewed Vessels

  • Angelina Iliaskos
  • Hannah Merry
  • Chloe Pattas

Experimental Study of Spark Ignition Processes of Hybrid Engines

  • Sonam Tshering Bhutia
  • Don Palihakkara
  • Suryapratapsingh Rathore
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