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

*Studica Skills Competitions - Over 100 design competitions in various categories related to engineering, design, animation and more.

*Aerospace Engineering
** AIAA [http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=210]

*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 Race
** Concrete canoe

* Mechanical Engineering
** Baja SAE
** Basic Utility Vehicle
** Formula SAE
** vehicles [http://students.sae.org/competitions/ several categories]
** ASABE [http://www.asabe.org/students/tractor/asaecomp.html tractors]
** ASHRAE Senior design project competition [http://www.ashrae.org/]

* Robotics
** AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle [http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm]
** AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition [http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARCLaunchPoint.html]
** AUVSI Student UAV Competition [http://uav.navair.navy.mil/seafarers/default.htm]
** AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition [http://www.igvc.org/]
** 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 Size
*** 4 legged [http://www.tzi.de/4legged/bin/view/Website/WebHome]
*** Humanoid [http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/]
** RoboCup Rescue [http://www.robocuprescue.org/index.html]

* Architecture
** Innovative Ideas For Porto Water Tanks [http://www.aguasdoporto.pt/innovativeideas]
** Lifecycle Building Challenge [http://lifecyclebuilding.org/index.htm]
** design [https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/home.aspx]
** housing [http://www.eere.energy.gov/solar_decathlon/about.html]
** housing [http://www.archnet.org/calendar/item.tcl?calendar_id=35000]
** aquatics [http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4049]

* Biomedical
** [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/membership/students/awards/sc_meddesign.html IEEE]

Past Design Competitions

* Mechanical Engineering
** Future Truck