Winners 2005


The evaluation committee has made its final decision, congratulations to the winners of the fourth edition of the ispo-TUM Academic Challenge Award!

The prize of EURO 2,500 goes to, Dr. Noel C. Perkins , the overall winner of the ispo-TUM Academic Challenge Award 2005, congratulations!

category: research
Dr. Noel C. Perkins
category: health sports
Christian Knauer, Christoph Ebert
category: competitive sports
Nick Hamilton
category: popular and leisure sports
Maximilian Müller

1. MEMS-based fly casting coach/analyzer

Dr. Noel C. Perkins
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA

100 points winner in the category "research", overall winner!!

2. Effect of pression on the friction between steel and ice

Dipl.-Ing. Florian Kraus
Central Institute for Medical Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany

98 points, 2nd place category "research"

3. Objectivating safety aspects of skiboots by a new test rig and an optimized prothesis

Christian Knauer, Christoph Ebert
Instituteof Ergonomics, Department for Sport Equipment and Materials, Technische Universität München, Germany

88 points, winner in the category "health sports"

4. Racing wheelchair alignment tool

Nick Hamilton
Sports Engineering Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

84 points, winner in the category "competitive sports"

5. A mysterious flight trajectory of a rugby ball

Kazuya Seo
Faculty of Education, Yamagata University, Japan

83 points, 3rd place category "research"

6. Development of an innovative folding bike - KlaRa

Maximilian Müller
Department of Product Development, Technische Universität München, Germany

79 points, winner in the category "popular and leisure sports"

7. Freeride-Wings - Aerodynamic support for skiing

Wolfgang Fischer
Department of Product Development, Technische Universität München, Germany

77 points, 2nd place category "popular and leisure sports"

7. Rudelrodel

Johannes Müller, Lukas Meier
Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, Technische Universität München, Germany

77 points, 2nd place category "popular and leisure sports"

9. Suspended composite bicycle seatpost

Dr. Stephan Odenwald
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany

76 points, 4th place category "popular and leisure sports"