Endeavour Exhibition highlights student ingenuity
Student talent was put on the map at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology's second Endeavour Exhibition of 2026.
The Exhibition is held twice a year, showcasing the curiosity and collaboration behind final-year students' capstone projects.
The day gives students the opportunity to make industry connections, practice pitching their projects, and showcase their work to a professional audience.
Following a day on the South Lawn at Parkville Campus, students gather for the awards ceremony, where discipline, industry and people's choice awards are announced.
This year's People's Choice Award went to Chaoyan Yu, Sherin Alianto, Anant Jain, Chujun Liu, Robyn Hsu and Raiyan Iqbal for their Information Systems Capstone Project.
Their project looked at how AI agents can help create a more connected bushfire early-warning process. Although various technologies already support fire monitoring, risk assessment and public warnings, information can be fragmented across different systems, tools and organisations.
Rather than replacing human decision-makers, their proposed approach focuses on providing clear and useful information to support their decisions.
Discipline awards winners
- Biomedical Engineering: Vision-Based Extraction of Surgical Performance Metrics, Teak Grogan AND Artificial Lungs for Medical Imaging, Lakshmi Balasubramanian
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Real-Time Robotic Portrait Drawing System, Shan (Jacqueline) Mei, Yi Ji and Jiayue (Luna) Liu
- Industrial Engineering: Carbon Composite Defect Elimination Using FEM Simulators, Maulana Habibi, Scott Madden and Samuel Ball
- Information Systems: Information Systems Perspective on Methane Reduction in Australian Grazing Farm, Farrell Fathana, Aryo Pambudi, Fransisca Julia Kusuma, Irsha Primanda and Ndaru Setyawan
- Infrastructure Engineering: Capstone 3D Imaging, Matthew Thomas, Heidi Kleins and Derek Phillips
- Mechanical Engineering: Computationally-Engineered Liquid Rocket Engine, Brooke Doolan, Jack Gardiner and Stuart Davis
- Mechatronics Engineering: Modular Bi-Manual Rehabilitation Robot, Nicholas Randall, Nicholas Kluckow, Jackson Lang and Jemma Huang
- Computing Information Systems: Swarm Robotics VR/XR Simulation, Alvis Tong, Joshua Vaughan, Ewan McRobinson, Michael Chen, Sasha Brooke, Nelson Jaden, Lucas Kenna and Zico Zhong
- Interdisciplinary Capstone Award: TEM (Transient ElectroMagnetic) Rover: The Future of Subsurface Exploration, Miryam Martin, Gurpreet Singh, Sokcheatra Samrith and Sumit Jadhav
People’s Choice Award
Information Systems Capstone Project, Chaoyan Yu, Sherin Alianto, Anant Jain, Chujun Liu, Robyn Hsu and Raiyan Iqbal
Industry Awards
- Airwallex Customer-Centric Innovation Award: Modular Bi-Manual Rehabilitation Robot, Nicholas Randall, Nicholas Kluckow, Jackson Lang and Jemma Huang
- Airwallex Enhancing Social Impact through Innovation Award: AnjeaHealth - A Non-Invasive Wearable to Improve Recognition of Postpartum Haemorrhage, Sarah Luiza D'Souza, Kritheek Beemadi, Ethan Jayamanna, Nevin Kothainayagam, Jennifer La and Jessica Maung
- Boeing Endeavour Award: Continuous-Wave Radar for Intelligent 2D Target Mapping and Motion-Selective Detection, Uri Kaufman, Sean Wei Liang Tai and Hong Kit Li
- Webuild Endeavour Award for Innovation in Engineering and Construction Management in Complex Infrastructure: Structural Optimisation for Sustainable Building Solutions, Luke Phelan, Bianca Tamburro and Dominique Woodmore
