Waikato Engineering Design Show :: University of Waikato

Waikato Engineering Design Show (EDS) 2024: 16 & 17 October

The annual Waikato Engineering Design Show is the high point of our internationally-recognised professional engineering degree programmes. At this event we showcase the incredible innovations, gizmos and projects of the University of Waikato's amazing professional engineering students.

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Schedule

Day One - Wednesday, 16 October 2024

2:00pm - 2:15pm	Welcome to the Engineering Design Show
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Civil Engineering (Yr2) - Timber Pedestrian Bridge Civil Engineering students have been tasked to design and build a two-metre pedestrian bridge which can support the weight of two users at the centre but fail at the addition of a third.	Outside The Pā, front of the wharenui
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Mechanical Engineering (Yr3) - Fence post machine challenge Engineers frequently need creativity to solve problems within various constraints. This year's task for third-year Mechanical Engineering students is to design a machine that races to place fence posts in pre-made holes and return, with the fastest and most accurate machine winning.	Front of bleachers in The Pā
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Mechanical Engineering (Yr2) - Innovative Nutcrackers Second-year Mechanical Engineering students must design and manufacture an innovative macadamia nutcracker that isn't a copy of existing designs. Prototypes should be user-friendly and reliably crack the nut without damaging the kernel, with testing to occur at the Design Show.	Front of bleachers in The Pā
	Chemical Engineering (Yr2) - Chem-E Car Chemical Engineering students must design and build a car powered by chemical reactions that can carry a 500g load up to 30m, with the distance revealed on competition day. This challenge tests their ability to model and predict the energy released from chemical reactions to drive the car.	Outside The Pā
6:00pm - 7:30pm	Mechatronics/Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Yr2) - Smart Autonomous Vehicles Display and Demonstration Mechatronics (Yr3) - Self balancing robots in maze Display & demonstration	Te Kōpūroa

Day Two - Thursday, 17 October 2024

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Mechatronics/Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Yr2) - Smart Autonomous Vehicles

Display & demonstration.

Mechatronics (Yr 3) - Self balancing robots in maze
Display & demonstration.

Te Kōpūroa

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Student Awards Ceremony

5:00pm

Closed for private function

Projects and Competitions

Every year our students excel in designing, building and testing new products, structures and solutions in response to real-world problems that matter to people, both in New Zealand and overseas.

Each year at EDS we have a two-day schedule packed full of exciting competitions, pitches, presentations, and all the fascinating final year projects in strategic areas such as robotics and automation, energy and food, advanced materials, structures and infrastructure, geotechnical engineering, smart electrical and AI, and water and wastewater challenges.