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Leeds University Takes Home Student Design Competition Award

We have some exciting news! The winners for this year’s Student Design Competition have been announced.

Taking home first prize (critic's choice) is Leeds University for their project Kinesthesia: Awareness of the Position and Movements of Parts of the Body.

This project follows the development of a user-friendly interface between the Microsoft Kinect and NI LabVIEW system design software. These applications are being developed for use in stroke rehabilitation, gait analysis, and laprascopic surgery.

The critic's choice runner up was High Precision Sound Recording System Using a 252ch Spherical Microphone Array from Tohuku University in Japan.

For the popular vote, first prize goes to Controlling SCARA Using Virtual Open Sourced Teach Pendant from the University of Mumbai, followed closely by second-place winner WALL-E from the University of Florida. Greenspeed, the World's Fastest Vegetable Oil Powered Vehicle from Boise State rounds out our popular vote category with third place

Congratulations, again, to all of the contestants for their hard work!

>> Get more details about the student design competition at www.ni.com/studentdesign/.