Competitions 1

[Kriegen]

Has anyone been in any design competitions? Do they hold them annually? I have been in a real design mood lately and have been wanting to know about some of these competitions. The only ones I have found are for high schoolers or undergrad college students. I would love to have some extra engineering fun outside of work all the time.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=engineering+design+competitions&btnG=Search&meta=

Some CAD companies run annual design competitions.

 

[KENAT]

In the UK they had a robot olympics that was televised each year. It wasn't battle bots/robot wars if that's what you're thinking.

They had different events and people built robots for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno_Games

looks like they canned it although there is a link on there to something else.

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

 

[Ashereng]

There are a lot of design competitions, and yes, there are a lot within mechanical, depending on your discipline.

The best way to find out about them are:
a) Google
b) ask your colleagues
c) your association
d) vendors

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[Kriegen]

Well google seems to only bring up the undergrad comps or even high school
Just looking for something to maybe try and make some extra credit to my name or money in my pocket. Either one would be nice. I am told that I am not bad, but could use some work. So I figure a competition would maybe give me some better motivation. so yeah if anyone sees something specific you could send me a link or something like that.

 

[IRstuff]

I would simply haunt the various CAD suppliers and CAD websites to look for such competitions.

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[dcroasmu]

Have you considered acting as an advisor to one of those high school/undergrad competition teams? You get to do some design work (but not all of it), promote engineering to the youngsters, and write it all off as volunteer work.

Just off the top of my head, there's a bunch of SAE competitions that seem to always be looking for judges. There's also a robotics competition called F.I.R.S.T. (

http://www.usfirst.org/)

that's pretty big. I'm sure there's dozens more.

 

[GregLocock]

Solar cars

Automotive x prize

Lunar x prize

You won't be making much money, and you won't get much recognition.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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