IRIS Wins $100,000 Investment Prize

18 April 2009 - Tendix (now IRIS, Inc.) beat out more than 300 other competitors to win a $100,000 investment prize from the VC firm Draper Fisher Jurveston (DFJ) --Mercury. DFJ is a premier VC group for early stage technology startups.

IRIS Wins $20,000 Dow Sustainability Prize at RBPC

18 April 2009 - Tendix (now IRIS Engines, Inc.) beat out more than 300 other competitors to win the $20,000 Dow Sustainability Prize and Third Place overall at the Rice Business Plan Competition.   The competition is the richest and largest contest of its kind in the United States and a respected launching pad for successful companies.  Read about Tendix's win on CNNMoney.com. 

Radial Expansion Engine (RXE) wins $75,000 in ConocoPhillips Energy Prize Competition

13 October 2008 - The Radial Expansion Engine (RXE), a design variant of the IRIS engine, has won $75,000 in the competition for the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize.  The RXE was selected as one of the top two designs from over 300 technologies that competed for the award.  The panel of judges making the selection included the President of the National Academy of Science.  For more information, click here. 

IRIS Design Awarded Yet Another Broad U.S. Patent

1 July 2008 - The IRIS design was awarded another broad patent today by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  The award was the third major patent grant associated with IRIS technology and it significantly expands Tendix's (now IRIS Engines, Inc.) rapidly growing portfolio of intellectual property. 

To read media coverage of the announcement in Parts and People, click here.

IRIS Takes First Prize for Transportation Tech in Major NASA Design Competition

22 April 2008 - Members of the Tendix Design Team traveled to New York to accept the first prize for transportation technology in a major international design competition sponsored by NASA Tech Briefs, the world's largest engineering magazine, SolidWorks, and HP.  The awards ceremony came in the aftermath of a tragic automobile accident that claimed the life of Tendix President Timber Dick.  "This is a bitter-sweet moment for us," Corban Tillemann-Dick told an audience that included senior executives from some of the country's leading design and engineering companies.  "However, we are more committed than ever to bringing the IRIS to fruition, and realizing our dad's dream of more efficient, sustainable technology." 

31 January 2008 - NASA and a panel of experts from Ford, Boeing, and other industry leaders have awarded the IRIS engine first prize for transportation technology in NASA's annual "Create the Future" design competition.  The IRIS engine beat out almost 1,000 other designs to take the award.

"This was the first time the IRIS design has gone head-to-head in competition with other cutting edge technological innovations. We're extremely gratified by the results," said Tendix President Timber Dick.  "This award is a powerful validation of the IRIS engine's benefits over old technologies and its spectacular potential.  It will provide a significant boost to Tendix's (now IRIS Engines, Inc.) efforts to commercialize the IRIS engine."