UWS Student wins NASSCOM Innovation Award at cebit

Avtar Gil (third right), Sachin Pilot (centre), NASSCOM President, Som Mittal (left), NSW MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Premier and for Asia-Pacific Trade, Peter Toole (2nd left), NSW Minister for Finance and Services, Greg Pearce (2nd right), and Anu Agrawal (right) with Winners of the 2012 NASSCOM Innovation Student Awards

UWS nominated three teams from the UWS School for Computing, Engineering and Mathematics for the 2012 NASSCOM Innovation Award. Jarred Mack and Jonathan Weightman participated with their real time 3D application “LiquidWeb Experiment” and Walied Askarzai pitched his idea of “Artificial Management”.

The third project presented by Dr Avtar Gil, a medical practitioner for more than 25 years and PhD student at UWS, won the award with his innovative program called STEP ON IT. This mobile application is an eHealth solution that provides real time feedback on key health measurements.

The inaugural NASSCOM Innovation Student Awards were presented by The Hon. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, The Hon Greg Pearce, Minister of Finance, NSW and Mr Paul Toole, MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Premier and for Asia-Pacific Trade.

The Awards were judged by an independent judging panel, with students presenting their concepts to leaders in the corporate sector. Mr. Anu Agrawal, Chairman of NASSCOM Australia said, “We are privileged to recognise the high level of innovation from students of Australia’s universities. The content and quality of the presentations to our judges was excellent and demonstrated many fine examples of originality.”

Students were supported by their supervisors and UWS Innovation. The Innovation team provided pitching guidance, rehearsals and advice on how to structure their application. The outcome reflects UWS’s strong market and community orientation. Through our activities, UWS Innovation is building a reputation for supporting delivery of pioneering research which results in practical, commercially accessible products and processes. To find out more click on the link to UWS Innovation  or send us an email to ip@uws.edu.au

UWS IP Evaluation Panel May 2012

The University of Western Sydney's (UWS) growing innovation capability was on show again at this year’s first Intellectual Property (IP) Evaluation Panel, which took place 18 May 2012 at the Female Orphan School, Parramatta Campus.

The UWS IP Evaluation Panel assists staff and students with their research, which may require protection and/or investment. UWS staff and students have the opportunity through UWS Innovation to present their innovations to the panel for assessment of patentability and commercial potential.

UWS Innovation was delighted to welcome Professor Jan Reid, the Vice Chancellor as an observer as well as our eminent IP panel comprised of UWS academics, industry experts and a patent attorney.  The broad expertise across the panel provides thorough analysis, commentary and recommendations to the presenters. Taylor McDonald from the School of Business was the student representative.  She sat on the panel as a non-voting member.

During the day,   Dr Anton Bogdanovych and Dr Chris Stanton from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics presented their real time controlled robot to the panel, Professor Andrew Shalliker and Michelle Camenzuli from the School of Science and Health presented their research where they have developed a single step reaction chromatography column and Mark Trudgett from the School of Science and Health presented a prototype instrument/detector for use in the field of chromatography.

Students from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics Jonathan Weightman and Jarred Mack, presented their LiquidWeb Experiment.  This was invaluable to the group as it was great preparation before their presentation at Australia’s CeBIT 2012 expo.

The panel was excited by the technologies presented which was strongly indicated by the great level of healthy discussion throughout the day. Our thanks to the dynamic panel members; Dr Siew-Lee Hew (Patent Attorney, FB Rice), Paul Levins (Intellectual Ventures), Derek Robinson (Agritechnology), Gar Jones (Director, Office of Research Services), Dr Ranjith Liyana-Pathirana (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics), Prof Clive Smallman (School of Business), Taylor McDonald (non-voting Student Representative) and Dr Fiona Cameron (UWS Innovation, Chair).

This blog will keep you up to date with progress of the inventions as they move along the exciting path to commercialisation. If you are interested in licensing or development opportunities with these or other UWS inventions please refer to our web site: UWS Innovation and/or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.