National SWE Competitions

National SWE Sponsored Student Competitions

Updated 1/31/98
SWE sponsors several competitions that are open to members only! Here is up-to-date information on the SWE competitions and other engineering related competitions.

* BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Program
* Boeing Team Tech National Student Competition
* SME Bowl Competition (Subject Matter Expert)
* Student Technical Presentation Competition
* Walt Disney Imagineering Competition

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BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Program

The BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Program is open to any studentenrolled full time in a college or university in the US.

The invention, idea, or process submitted must be original, and the resultof work completed by a student (or team) with his or her faculty advisor.

All-Collegiate Category

Participation in the All-Collegiate Category is open to graduate,postgrad, and undergrad students. Up to 3 winners wil be selected, eachreceiving $5000 cash prizes. Advisors each receive $2500 cash prize.

Undergraduate Category

Up to 3 winners will be honored in the Undergraduate Category. Each isawarded a $1000 cash prize. Advisors each receive a $500 cash prize.

Judging criteria for the contest include originality, adequacy,completeness, usefulness, and presentation.

Phase 1: Entries are reviewed by preliminary judge committee.
Phase 2: Semifinalist entries from phase 1 are now judged by nationalpanel of mathematicians, scientists, and patent experts.

Awards are presented to winners during NationalInventors Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact:
Paul Kunce
Program Coordinator
1-800-968-4332

WWW site:
http://www.invent.org
(Look up Inventure Place, National Inventors Hall of Fame)

or send a reply card - available outside MITSWE Office on 4th floor of Student Center

DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING ENTRIES: see Official BFGoodrich Web Site

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Boeing Team Tech National Student Competition

The Team Tech National Student Competition was launched in 1992 by the Boeing Company to emphasize the key role of teamwork and interface with industry in the engineering educational process.

Competing teams, ranging from four to twelve students, representing a minimum of three engineering disciplines, are formed in the Fall. They submit an initial, interim, and final report on a project of thier own choosing. In addition, each team works with an Industrial Advisor, who is also responsible for ongoing evaluation of the team's progress.

The teams and their projects are evaluated in the following five areas:

A team presenter from each Region competes for cash prizes in the amounts of $2,400 for First Place ($200 per team member with all remaining funds donated to the sponsoring SWE Student Section) and $1,200 for Second Place ($100 per team member with all remaining funds donated to the sponsoring SWE Student Section).

These presentations are challenging and represent the work that can be accomplished when we strive together.

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SME Bowl Competition (Subject Matter Expert)

First sponsored by the Mobil Corporation at the 1993 Convention in Chicago, and since held annually at the National SWE Convention, the SME Bowl has continued to be a big success. One five-member team from each region competes in a college bowl atmosphere answering engineering questions. Monetary prizes are given to winning regions and first and second place individuals. All participants receive a SME Bowl Expert t-shirt.

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Student Technical Paper Competition

The Technical Paper Competition (TPC) is an annual contest open to all undergraduate SWE student members. There is no limit to the presentation topics, but the paper must be written solely by the student and must describe the student's own work. Common topics are cooperative education experiences, laboratory reports, and design projects. The competition takes place in two levels. Regional winners are selected on the quality of their written papers. The TPC winners are chosen from the regional winners, based on their oral presentations given at the National Convention and Student Conference. Judges in both parts of the competition represent a cross-section of the engineering community.

The regional winners' transportation costs to the National Convention are sponsored. Cash prizes of $1,500, $1,000 and $750 are awarded to the first, second, and third place national winners, repectively.

[Editor's Note to MIT students: For the past two years, there have been NO entries to the TPC from our region (Region F). This means that if just ONE MITSWE student had entered a UROP or Phase 2 paper, they would have immediately won the regional competition and gotten their entire way paid to the National Convention - plane, hotel, registration and all! In short, enter a paper into the 1998 Competition!

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Walt Disney Imagineering Competition

Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative force behind the Disney Theme Parks, issponsoring a design competition for SWE student members to create an idea for atheme park attraction. You may create a global or environmental theme, a fourseasons sports park, or any fantasy of your own invention.

Express your idea as a report, illustration, photographs, or even video and send it to the person below:

Caroline Vanlngen-Dunn
Simula Government Products, Inc.
10016 S. 51st Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85044
Phone: (602) 730-4431
Fax: (602) 893-8643

Include a 1-page explanation of your concept and a complete entry form signed by your SWE Section President or Student Rep, verifying your membership. Yourentry will be judged on:

SWE judges will select the top 3 entries in April. In May, 3 finalists will bebrought to Glendale, CA to present their ideas to a panel of judges from WaltDisney Imagineering. This panel will decide which of the top 3 entries isawarded 1st place. Here are the awards:

1st Place: 6-month Imagineering Co-op, plus a $2000 grant, of which $500goes to student's SWE section

2 finalists: $1000 grant and interview for a Co-op position, students' SWE sections each receive $250.

So grab your chance to become a part of Disney's world famous team of engineers, architects, artists and designers!

Entry forms are available outside MITSWE Office.

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