SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- UBM Canon, the world's leading advanced design and
manufacturing industry resource, and Design News, will
announce three major engineering awards on Tuesday, February 10 at the Pacific Design &
Manufacturing event in Anaheim,
CA. The awards will be announced in addition to their Golden
Mousetrap Awards, a program that celebrates the companies,
products, and people who are energizing North American design,
engineering, and manufacturing.
Lifetime Achievement
Babak
Parviz will be honored for Lifetime Achievement, although,
at age 40, Parviz still has years of achievement to come. The
former professor at the University of
Washington came to the world's attention when he developed
Google Glass, and the Smart Contact Lens, which can display the
wearer's blood glucose level. He started experimenting with contact
lenses as both a display device and a biomedical sensor as a
professor. Parviz surprised many with a move to Amazon last summer,
and is now heading a project that is being kept under wraps at this
point. Parviz is a keynote speaker at MD&M West, which is
co-located with Pacific Design & Manufacturing. He will be
speaking about the future of wearable technology.
Rising Star Engineer
Design News will be
presenting an award to the Rising Engineering Star, Manish Bhardwaj, a systems application engineer
at Texas Instruments. Bhardwaj, 30, has contributed to the
development of a software-based frequency response analyzer for
power conversion systems and a reference design for motor control
systems. He has also been involved in several solar power
developments. The Rising Engineering Star award has been presented
for the past three years, in partnership with Mouser
Electronics.
Gadget Freak of the Year
Gadget Freak of the Year will
be presented to a group of Colorado State
University engineering students, who devised a DDV-IP, a
robotic remote-controlled drink delivery vehicle. Doug Swift, Tyler
Reedy, Rob Harvey, and
Michael Habel will receive a
$6,000 prize for their school project
that went far beyond the classroom. A video of their device in
action can be found here. The Gadget Freak of the Year award is
sponsored by Allied Electronics.
All of the awards will be presented on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, at the Anaheim
Marriott Hotel, adjacent to the Anaheim Convention Center, at 5 p.m. in the Platinum 5 Ballroom.
About UBM Canon
UBM Canon is the leading B-to-B event producer, publisher, and
digital media company for the world's $3
trillion advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry.
Our print and electronic products deliver trusted information to
the advanced manufacturing market and leverage our proprietary 1.3
million name database to connect suppliers with buyers and purchase
influencers. We produce more than 50 events and conferences in a
dozen countries, connecting manufacturing professionals from around
the globe. UBM Canon is part of UBM plc (UBM.L) a global
provider of media and information services for professional B-to-B
communities and markets.
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