2006 Product of the Year Awards and Design Contest Winners
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Design Contest Winners
The Grand-Prize and First-Prize winners in the Emhart Teknologies “Create the Future” design contest also were honored at the event. Grand-Prize winner David Torrey of Advanced Energy Conversion LLC, said “I am both thrilled and humbled by taking top honors. There are an awful lot of smart, capable people in this world. It’s gratifying to get included in their company. Also, I would add that for an engineer, creating something new is one of the existential pleasures of our profession. Having one of my creations recognized for being ingenious and useful is a big thrill.”
Also on hand was First-Prize winner Buck Albritton of GearMax. “The contest provided tremendous exposure bringing the greatest potential for success in licensing the new product and getting it to market,” he said. “The need for the product design was realized about four years ago when my brother and I watched the news report of rescue workers searching by hand for potential survivors through demolished buildings. We thought a tool that could put a handle on such jobs would speed the work and reduce fatigue. We believe the final result of the years of development could be beneficial in every day jobs around the house as well,” Albritton added.
The Future of “Create the Future”
For the past five years, Emhart Teknologies has been the primary sponsor for the “Create the Future” Design Contest. For 2007, SolidWorks Corporation of Concord, MA, has proudly assumed the role of primary sponsor. COMSOL Inc. of Burlington, MA, continues with the contest as a cosponsor of the event.
“We are thrilled to participate as the primary sponsor of this timehonored competition,” said Solid- Works Corporation’s Marketing Communications Manager, Steve Traher. “It celebrates the essence of engineering — the ‘aha!’ moment when someone comes up with a truly innovative idea for dramatically improving an existing product or inventing an entirely new one. Competitors in the Create the Future Design Contest, and the product designers and engineers that we meet every day, never fail to astonish us with their ingenuity,” Traher added.
For more information on the 2007 Create the Future Design Contest, see page 5 of this issue.
See full coverage of this year’s contest winners in the April issue of NASA Tech Briefs, or visit www.emhartcontest.com.
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