The James Dyson Award was first launched in 2004 as an international student design contest designed to encourage students to design products that could solve problems and inspire next-generation engineers. The James Dyson Award, which focuses on “solving everyday problems”, selects projects that have applicable objectives for both the environment and society based on originality, creativity, and sustainable engineering. This year marked the fourth time for the James Dyson Award in Korea. A total of 55 individuals and teams of design and engineering students participated. After their projects were judged, one winner and one runner-up were selected for Korea this year.
The winning project of the 2019 James Dyson Award in Korea is the “Reuse-it”, submitted by a team of five students (Inha Cha, Dasom Choi, Doheon Kim, Sojeong Yun, Dasol Hong and Professor. Samgmin Bae) of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. In Korea, the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year and 45% of paper printed in offices ends up trashed. As using Reuse-it, each person can save approximately 270,000 trees every year. Hence, Reuse-it aims to solve the paper wastage problems with a fun and easy way as well as provide users with a new experience of reusing the scrap papers. Reuse-it offers an easy way to recycle and reuse scrap papers by making the back of the scrap papers into the front of Post-it. Its process is divided into the cutting process and the glueing process. When the blade cuts the scrap paper into a square shape, it no longer goes down while the button can be pressed further down to push the paper down and open the cover of the glue, which is located under the cut paper. Then, the cut paper touches the glue. Connected to the glue cover, the spring moves the paper to the location, where the user inserted the paper in the beginning of the process.
The winning team will receive 2,000 pounds for prize money and support in producing a prototype. Also, this project is now entered into the final stages of the global James Dyson Award with the opportunity to receive a prize of 30,000 pounds with an additional 5,000 pounds given to the winner’s alma mater.
Inha Cha, a student at the KAIST said, “James Dyson Award grants young designers with the rare opportunity to show and change the world with their inventions and prototypes. It was a priceless journey for us and we feel blessed to be selected as the national winner” and added, “Scarp paper wastage is a worldwide problem that is easily overlooked. We believe that “Reuse-it” has global competitiveness as well as an optimistic possibility to become productized in the future.”
This year’s runner-up project was Active-IV-bag with IoT Flow detector by a student (Jiho Jang) from Hanyang University. It measures the flow of fluid, senses when the IV line is pulled out or blocked, preventing the dangerous situation and notifying it to the nurse in real-time as well as ensuring the patient's mobility through innovative hat-shaped design.
The judging for this year’s James Dyson Award in Korea was a collection of industry experts such as Dennis Hong (Professor at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering), Changsup Oh (Industrial design professor at Konkuk University) and Huisung Lee (Assistant Professor at School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST). The judges selected the winner of the James Dyson Award in Korea and the runner-up project.
2019 James Dyson Award Korea judge Dennis Hong, Professor stated, “It was a fascinating experience to see the entries of this year’s James Dyson Award as there were outstanding projects with a great potential of becoming productized” and added, “James Dyson Award is a brilliant opportunity for students to make the world a better place through creating real inventions that cannot end as mere ideas. Therefore, I highly encourage more students in Korea to seize this phenomenal opportunity.”
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