Engineering students at Baldwin Wallace University (BW) are making waves at the national level for their research in marine energy. This year, BW placed first among 23 schools in the 2025 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition. The 9-month-long, multidisciplinary competition required students to design a device powered by marine energy using waves, tides or ocean or river currents, that addressed a need.

The winning BW project was a wave converter buoy designed for Lake Erie. (It was in the early stage of development and laboratory testing.) The area of opportunity for the team was to supply sustainable energy to the Port of Cleveland’s electrification and modernization projects and to contribute sustainable power along the lakefront.

CWA was proud to support this group by empowering them with our buoy data, helping them to create their prototypes and providing insights as they explored blue economy innovation right here in Northeast Ohio.