Student design competition

A Student Design Competition is a competition between teams of students. The objective is to introduce students to real-world engineering situations and to teach students project-management and fabrication techniques used in industry.

Both students and industry benefit from intercollegiate design competitions. Each competition allows students to apply the theories and information they have learning in the class room to real situations. Industry gains better prepared and more experienced engineers.

History

Through the 1970s only one competition of significance existed: Mini Baja. Today, almost every field of engineering has several design competitions, which have extended from college down into high school (e.g., FIRST Robotics) and even younger grades (e.g., FIRST Lego League). The Society of Automotive Engineers organizes the largest design competitions, including Mini Baja, Sunryce, and Formula SAE.

Current Design Competitions

• Aerospace Engineering
  • AIAA [1]
  • SAE Aerodesign [2]

• Architectural Engineering
  • ASHRAE Senior design project competition [3]
  • Lifecycle Building Challenge [4]

• Civil Engineering
  • Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race
  • Concrete canoe
  • Steel bridge

• Mechanical Engineering
  • Baja SAE
  • Basic Utility Vehicle
  • Formula SAE
  • SAE Supermileage [5]
  • SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge [6]
  • SAE Aerodesign [7]
  • Intercollegiate Solar/electric Boat Regatta Solar Splash
  • American Solar Challenge [8]
  • DOE Solar Decathlon [9]
  • ASABE 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition
  • ASHRAE Senior design project competition [10]

• Robotics
  • MATE Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition, [Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science]
  • AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition[11]
  • AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition[http://www.igvc.org/
  • AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle [12]
  • AUVSI Student UAV Competition [13]]
  • AUVSI Autonomous Surface Vehicle [14]
  • FIRST Robotics [15]
  • Darpa Urban Grand Challenge [16]
  • RoboCup Soccer
    • Small Size [17]
    • Middle Size
    • 4 legged [18]
    • Humanoid [19]
  • RoboCup Rescue [20]

• Biomedical
  • IEEE

Past Design Competitions

• Mechanical Engineering
  • Future Truck