Mouser Electronics Reveals Winner of Circuit Showdown Competition Featuring Engineering Students
October 30, 2024 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader™ empowering innovation, announced the final episode and winner of the Circuit Showdown Design Contest, a unique design competition show produced by eeDesignIt. The contest pitted three electrical and mechanical university engineering students against each other, head-to-head, in a design standoff. Over four episodes, the students were challenged to complete themed design project builds. The competing students were Charles Morales from Texas State University, Michael Vidales from Prairie View A&M University, and Renee Wrysinski from Rice University.
Parts for their designs were made available from Mouser's manufacturer partners, including Arduino, Keysight Technologies, Molex, Renesas Electronics, and Vishay. The episodes were hosted by Bryan DeLuca and Nicolette Emmino of eeDesignIt, and the project builds were judged by Massimo Banzi, Co-founder & Designer at Arduino, Chris Moore, CEO of FIRST®, and Kirk Ulery, Business Development Manager, Transportation Solutions for Molex. Raymond Yin, Mouser Director of Technical Content, applied his engineering expertise to act as a technical mentor to the students.
During the third episode, the students were tasked with creating projects that demonstrated systems commonly found in manufacturing. When they were already partially finished with their projects, Raymond Yin introduced an unexpected twist.
"What we asked them to do was to add an Internet of Things dashboard using the Arduino IoT Cloud to their projects," said Raymond Yin. "They'd need to be able to display data from their hardware and make them visible to the judges upon demonstration. Adding this last-minute design change provided some additional pressure and forced them to make some quick decisions."
"I like the twist because it works the same way we do in business today," said Kirk Ulery. "Everything has to be communicated. How do you get your information out in a format that people can understand and access?"
The students competed for a Grand Prize of $10,000, a $1,000 credit on mouser.com, and a Keysight lab bench valued at $6,000. Second prize was $5,000, a $500 credit on mouser.com, and a $1,500 Keysight oscilloscope. The contestant in Third Place took home a $250 credit on mouser.com and a Keysight Digital Multimeter.
To watch all four episodes and find out who won, visit https://www.mouser.com/circuit-showdown/.
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