EXTERNAL AWARDS & RESOURCES Get some attention for your hard work!

Big corporationsTI Innovation Challenge

• Must use 3+ TI parts, which can be obtained free from TI• $10k, $7.5k, $5k for 1st,2nd,3rd place prizes• Submissions due 5/24/2015

NI LabVIEW Student Design Competition• Must use LabVIEW• $1k first place & $500 2nd place, plus pass/accommodations to NIWeek

conference• Submissions due 5/31/2015 (?)

Criteria• Creativity, relevance, difficulty, quality of report

IP• They own the physical submission, but you own the design*

*Kind of, unless they or their customers need to “borrow” it…

From the University…Leung Fund

• Up to $2k for ECE students doing “extraordinary” projects• Submissions due by the 4th week of semester, but may still be considered

afterwards depending on $$ remaining • Review team strives to have funding distributed by early October

NCIIA• $5k-$20k in funding in 3 stages• Submissions deadlines by season: 10/4, 2/6, 5/8• Judged on business model & social impact in addition to technical design

OSBI• Consulting arm of the business school• Can be used as a resource if your projects lead to startups

From us!• Distinctions and awards given to top projects in various

categories• Unfortunately no cash doled out, but we will not use your

design in our future products royalty-free to you…