{"id":30,"date":"2026-07-16T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/engineering-students-win-national-design-award\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:15:14","slug":"engineering-students-win-national-design-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/engineering-students-win-national-design-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Students Win National Design Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of final-year engineering students has won a national design award for a low-cost water-purification unit designed for use in remote communities, beating entries from more than forty universities.<\/p>\n<p>The project began as a second-year research placement and grew into a full final-year capstone. The judges praised both the engineering and the team&#039;s attention to how the device would actually be used, maintained and repaired in the field.<\/p>\n<h5>From coursework to national recognition<\/h5>\n<figure class=\"uni-post-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"uni-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/uni-blog-30-inline.jpg\" alt=\"The winning team with their prototype\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption>The team spent two terms refining their prototype before the final.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The award reflects the way engineering is taught here \u2014 assessed through real projects rather than exams alone:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"uni-post-list\">\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Two terms of prototyping in the university&#039;s fabrication labs<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Field testing with an international development partner<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> A design costed to be built and repaired locally<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Mentoring from staff who work in the sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"uni-post-quote\">\n<p>We were not designing for a lab bench. We were designing for a village with no mains power, and that changes every decision you make.<\/p>\n<p><cite>A member of the winning team<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The team has been invited to develop the design further with the university&#039;s industry partners, and two members have accepted funded places to continue the work as postgraduate researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of final-year engineering students has won a national design award for a low-cost water-purification unit designed for use in remote communities, beating entries from more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}