Waikato Engineering Design Show :: University of Waikato

2025 Waikato Engineering Design Show (EDS): 15 - 16 October 2025

The annual Waikato Engineering Design Show is the high point of our internationally-recognised professional engineering degree programmes. At this event we showcase the incredible innovations, gizmos and projects of the University of Waikato's amazing professional engineering students.

Projects and Competitions

Every year our students excel in designing, building and testing new products, structures and solutions in response to real-world problems that matter to people, both in New Zealand and overseas.

Each year at EDS we have a two-day schedule packed full of exciting competitions, pitches, presentations, and all the fascinating final year projects in strategic areas such as robotics and automation, energy and food, advanced materials, structures and infrastructure, geotechnical engineering, smart electrical and AI, and water and wastewater challenges.