The BEng final year project has been designed to be a linked design project where students will work individually and as a group to integrate core disciplinary concepts to produce the detailed design of a part of a product or process. Students will bring their individual components together to develop a complex component or process, and need to think creatively to produce an effective design that meets a specification and minimises the cost and environmental impact.

Across all BEng final year project teams, nine outstanding project teams showcasing strong industrial collaboration were selected to participate in the BEng Dragons’ Den presentations at the Industrial Liaison Forum. The teams pitched their ideas and showcased exciting product concepts to the "dragons" from industry and academics. The enthusiasm of the presenting students and the quality of their projects were noted by these judges.

The three winning BEng Dragons’ Den presentations were:

• Biochar-based filters to remove organic/biological pollutants from contaminated water (comprised Penny Garwood, Halima Sacdia Omar Hadafow, Seung Woo Lee, Ida Mathilda Lenz Gorner, Jake Michel Oldfield and Dr Roberto Volpe)
• Autonomous underwater eversion robot for lionfish capture (comprised Muhie Sultan Faisal Al Haimus, Salman Muhammed Jafferali, Farhan Rahman, Mohammad Tahmidur Rahman, Abishan Satheeskumar and Dr Hadi Sadati)
• Investigating Shear-Stress-Mediated Reversal of Endothelialto-Mesenchymal Transition in an Artery-on-a-Chip Model (comprised Peter Abdul-Ahad, Aeliya Syed, Rindhiya Vishnu Shankar, Charmaine Winky Wong and Dr Thomas Iskratsch)

All students engaged in lively discussion with our academics and external visitors, and received excellent feedback from our judges and industrial collaborators. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Dragons’ Den session chairs and judges, specifically Dr Stefaan Verbruggen, Dr Maria Crespo Ribadeneyra, Professor Liz Tanner, Dr Ketao Zhang, Dr Neil Cagney, Dr Chris Chapman and Prof Karin Hing, for their valuable time, insightful evaluations, and constructive feedback, which greatly contributed to the success of the event.