2012

• Live webcast: http://mediasite.itops.rpi.edu/Mediasite5/Viewer/?peid=69e11cb99e104bfda59d502e66818eb61d
• Winner :: Fazel Yavari
  High Sensitivity Detection of Hazardous Gases Using a
  Graphene Foam Network
• Christopher Rivet
  A Hydrogel and Electrospun Fiber Composite Material
  
• Zepu Wang
  Nanocomposite Filled with Graphene Oxide –
  A Revolutionary Field Grading Material for High Voltage Power System
  

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2011

• Winner :: Benjamin Clough
  Benjamin Clough has developed a novel method for eavesdropping on terahertz information hidden in invisible plasma acoustic bursts.
  
  Finalists
• Sevan Goenezen
• Tristan Lawry

2010

• Winner :: Javad Rafiee
  Javad Rafiee developed a new method for storing hydrogen at room temperature.
  
  Finalists
  
• Casey Hoffman
• Jiuru Xu

2009

• Winner :: Yuehua "Tony" Yu
  Yuehua "Tony" Yu's new binary G-gels could enable a new generation of targeted drug delivery technologies and implantable medical devices.
  
  Finalists
  
• Mei-Ling Kuo
• Ranganath Teki

2008

• Winner :: Martin Schubert
  Martin Schubert’s innovation could change the way you see the world—literally. Schubert has created the first-ever polarized light-emitting diode (LED). 
  
  Finalists
  
• Weixiao Huang
• Paul Morrow
• Gang Wang

2007

• Winner :: Brian Schulkin
  “T-rays” have been touted as the next breakthrough in sensing and imaging, but the need for bulky equipment has been an obstacle to reaching the field’s potential. Enter Brian Schulkin, winner of the first-ever $30,000Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize.
  
  Finalists
• Eben Bayer
• Ludovico Dell'Acqua
• Greg Ten Eyck