Two engineering students lift up a wooden box to fix their demo project at the Innovation Showcase

Hands-on learning.
Real-world solutions.

Explore how student innovation bridges education and industry.

Attend the Spring 2025 Innovation Showcase

Friday, May 2, 2025

10 a.m.–1 p.m. 
Sun Devil Fitness Complex, Polytechnic campus

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Discover how ASU engineering and technology students are tackling real-world challenges with groundbreaking solutions. At this dynamic event, undergraduate and graduate students unveil projects that apply the skills they’ve gained throughout their academic journey.

Working alongside industry partners — both locally and globally — students design, build and refine creative solutions that address real industry and societal needs. With guidance from faculty and industry mentors, they transform big ideas into impactful innovations. Join us and see how the next generation of engineers and technologists is shaping the future.

Two students presenting their project, a controlable replica of WALL-E.

More than an event

We celebrate our students’ abilities to bring together all the components of their education to produce something innovative. We also build bridges to our industry partners, which benefits our students with increased job opportunities, as well as our programs through added expertise and resources.

Darryl MorrellAssociate Professor, Engineering, The Polytechnic School

Learn more about the programs that bridge education and industry through innovation.

Aviation student sitting at a control tower simulator

Aviation

The Aviation Programs offer degrees that combine academic studies with professional flight and aviation training. State-of-the-art training and simulation facilities promote realistic immersion for an optimal learning experience.

A group of five software engineering students in a group pic at innovation showcase with laptops.

Software Engineering

The software engineering program blends engineering, computing, project leadership and software construction. Students learn how to make creative software solutions to solve global issues. Industry partners sponsor many of these projects, bringing unmatched, real-world experiences into the learning environment.

A student in the Cooke Lab interacting with a user interface and multiple screens at a terminal.

Human Systems Engineering

Human Systems Engineering combines engineering and psychology to design systems consistent with human capabilities and limitations.

Engineering student adjusting his invention in the moments before the showcase event.

eProjects

Professional Design Project II is comprised of students from the BSE engineering program (with concentrations in automotive systems, electrical systems, mechanical systems, and robotics systems) and the BS manufacturing engineering program.

EPICS students showing their product at a demo table.

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)

The Engineering Projects in Community Service program, known as EPICS, is a national award-winning social entrepreneurship program. Teams design, build and deploy systems to solve engineering-based problems for charities, schools and other not-for-profit organizations.

Grand Challenges Scholars Program members presenting their project.

Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP)

The Fulton Grand Challenges Scholars Program combines innovative curriculum and cutting-edge research experiences into an intellectual fusion that spans academic disciplines and includes entrepreneurial, global, and service learning opportunities.

A female engineering student demonstrating the capabilities of her robotic invention.

Foundations of Engineering
Design II

This course instills an entrepreneurial mindset by vertically integrating a single design project in two consecutive freshmen engineering design classes. Students combine machine skills, electronics and programming into their projects.

A SolarSPELL student presenting her invention to a group of children.

SolarSPELL

Students of the SolarSPELL (Solar Powered Educational Learning Library) initiative are confronting the realities of low-resource contexts with an ultra-portable, ruggedized, education-focused digital library, designed to build internet-ready skills in an offline environment.