- NordBEC
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Established 2010 Type European Competition Location Europe Website http://www.nordbec.com/ Contents
History
The idea of having a Nordic regional engineering competition first sprang to life at the regional meeting in Røros, autumn 2007. The Nordic engineering competition did however not get a kick start until the regional meeting in Copenhagen, spring 2009. Shortly after, a coordinator was selected, followed by the selection of a hosting BEST group. At the regional meeting in Uppsala, spring 2009, the Nordic engineering competition got its name, nordBEC, standing for Nordic BEST Engineering Competition. The first nordBEC was held in Copenhagen, 27th-31 March 2010 and the second one will be held in Trondheim, 16–20 April 2011.
What is nordBEC (Nordic BEST Engineering Competition)?
nordBEC gathers the winners of local rounds of engineering competitions organized in top Scandinavian universities. In result,the best students from whole region will be selected. During the competition days, students work in teams of 4, using their creativity, innovative thinking, soft and teamwork skills in order to come up with solutions for challenges given to them.
nordBEC has two categories:
Team Design
This category consists of solving a given technical problem within a limited amount of time. The outcome is a device that has to solve the problem.
Case Study
It is a task, where a theoretical issue is being considered, and a solution has to be presented. In the end the teams give a presentation of the solutions they came up with.
Local rounds
In the Nordic region there are 10 different BEST groups. In 2010, eight of these groups have decided to have a local engineering competition. The winning teams in each local engineering competition get to go to the nordBEC. The following universities are participating:
- Aalborg
Name: Aalborg Engineering Competition 2010
Date: March 3, 2010
Website: www.best.aau.dk/?q=Events/LEC2010
University: Aalborg University- Copenhagen
Name: DTU BEST Engineering Competition 2009
Date: 11th-12 November 2009
Website: http://www.best.dtu.dk/LEC www.best.dtu.dk/LEC
University: Technical University of Denmark- Gothenburg
Name: Göteborg LEC
Date: 4th-5 February 2010
Website: www.best.chs.chalmers.se/LEC/
University: Chalmers University of Technology- Helsinki
Name: AB?C
Date: 19 February 2010
Website:[best.tky.fi/abc]
University: Aalto University- Lund
Name: BLuE
Date: 24 February 2010
Website: www.tlth.se/best/blue/
University: Lund University- Stockholm
Name: tekBEC 2010
Date: 18 February 2010
Website: www.beststockholm.se/LEC2010/
University: Royal Institute of Technology- Tampere University of Technology
Date: February, 2011
Website: http://www.best-tampere.fi/index.php?lang=2
University: Tampere University of Technology- Trondheim
Name: TECH’in
Date: 9 March 2010
Website: www.techin.no
University: Norwegian University of Science and Technology- Uppsala
Name: uBEC
Date: 2 March 2010
Website: www.BESTuppsala.se/lec
University: Uppsala University2010 Edition
Place : Copenhagen
Dates: 27-31 March 2010nordBEC (Nordic BEST Engineering Competition) was organised for the first time by Local BEST Group Copenhagen between 27th and 31 March 2010. 60 students representing 8 Nordic Universities of Technology obtained passes for nordBEC by winning Local BEST Engineering Competitions (LBECs) at their home universities. The winners won a chance to participate the European BEST Engineering Competition, which took place in Cluj-Napoca, August 2010.
2011 Edition
Place : Trondheim
Dates: 16–20 April 2011 The Second edition will be organised by Local BEST Group Trondheim from 16th till 20 April 2011.External links
Categories:- Engineering competitions
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