Student design competition
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A student design competition is a specific form of a student competition
relating to design
. Design competitions can be technical or purely aesthetic. The objective of technical competitions is to introduce students to real-world engineering
situations and to teach students project-management and fabrication techniques used in industry. Aesthetic competitions usually require art and design skills.
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.
). The Society of Automotive Engineers organizes the largest design competitions, including Mini Baja, Sunryce, and Formula SAE
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Student competition
A student competition can be defined as any event where an individual or a team compete for a prize where skill is the main predictor of the winner. There can be a competition between students or teams of students within a classroom or across different schools and across geographical regions...
relating to design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
. Design competitions can be technical or purely aesthetic. The objective of technical competitions is to introduce students to real-world engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
situations and to teach students project-management and fabrication techniques used in industry. Aesthetic competitions usually require art and design skills.
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 LeagueFIRST Lego League
The FIRST® LEGO® League is an international competition organized by FIRST for elementary and middle school students ....
). The Society of Automotive Engineers organizes the largest design competitions, including Mini Baja, Sunryce, and Formula SAE
Formula SAE
Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers . The competition was started back in 1978 and was originally called SAE Mini Indy.-Concept:...
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Current design competitions
- Aerospace Engineering
- Architectural Engineering
- ASHRAE Senior design project competition http://www.ashrae.org/
- Lifecycle Building Challenge http://lifecyclebuilding.org/index.htm
- Civil Engineering
- Great Northern Concrete Toboggan RaceGreat Northern Concrete Toboggan RaceThe Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race is an annual event that challenges the creativity of engineering students. The first competition was held in 1974 after being created by Dr. S. H. Simmonds, president of the Alberta chapter of the American Concrete Institute...
- Concrete canoeConcrete canoeA concrete canoe is a canoe made of concrete, typically created for an engineering competition.In spirit, the event is similar to that of a cardboard boat race—make the seemingly unfloatable float...
- Steel bridgeSteel bridge competitionThe ASCE/AISC steel bridge competition is a student contest that tests the knowledge and practicality of teams of university students from American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapters in the field of structural engineering...
- International Student Competition in Structural Optimization (ISCSO) http://brightoptimizer.com/
- Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race
- Mechanical Engineering
- Baja SAEBaja SAEBaja SAE is an intercollegiate design competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers . Teams of students from universities all over the world design and build small off-road cars. The cars all have engines of the same specifications...
- Basic Utility VehicleBasic Utility VehicleBasic Utility Vehicle is a simple rugged vehicle designed for use in the developing world. The Institute for Affordable Transportation is the promoter of this type of vehicles and the main sponsor...
- Formula SAEFormula SAEFormula SAE is a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers . The competition was started back in 1978 and was originally called SAE Mini Indy.-Concept:...
- SAE Supermileage http://students.sae.org/competitions/supermileage/
- SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge http://students.sae.org/competitions/snowmobile/
- SAE Aerodesign http://students.sae.org/competitions/aerodesign/
- Intercollegiate Solar/electric Boat Regatta Solar Splash
- American Solar Challenge http://americansolarchallenge.org/events/asc2010/
- DOE Solar Decathlon http://www.solardecathlon.org/
- ASABE 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition
- ASHRAE Senior design project competition http://www.ashrae.org/
- Baja SAE
- Robotics
- MATE Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition http://www.marinetech.org/rov_competition/
- AUVSI International Aerial Robotics CompetitionInternational Aerial Robotics CompetitionThe International Aerial Robotics Competition began in 1991 on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and is the longest running university-based robotics competition in the world...
http://iarc.angel-strike.com/ - AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle CompetitionIntelligent Ground Vehicle CompetitionThe Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition is an annual international robotics competition for teams of undergraduate and graduate students. Teams design and build an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing several difficult challenges. The competition is well suited to senior design...
http://www.igvc.org/ - AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm
- AUVSI Student UAV Competition http://uav.navair.navy.mil/seafarers/default.htm
- AUVSI Autonomous Surface Vehicle http://www.auvsi-asvc.org/
- FIRST Robotics http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/
- Darpa Urban Grand Challenge http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp
- RoboCup Soccer
- Small Size http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/
- Middle SizeRoboCup Middle Size LeagueThe RoboCup Middle Size League or MSL is one of the RoboCup robot soccer leagues.Two teams of 5 mid-sized robots with all sensors on-board play soccer on a field...
- 4 legged http://www.tzi.de/4legged/bin/view/Website/WebHome
- Humanoid http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/
- RoboCup Rescue http://www.robocuprescue.org/index.html
- Biomedical