CATEGORIES

Junior Design

Team Size: 4 People

Junior Design follows in the footsteps of Senior Design. It sees a team of four individuals developing a solution to a proposed problem with a limited timeframe in which to complete their design. This competition caters to engineering students in their first or second year of their degree. After completion of their design, each team will present to a panel of judges for evaluation.

Senior Design

Team Size: 4 People

Senior Design challenges a team of four individuals to develop and implement a solution to a specific problem within 6 hours. The problem will be presented to each team the morning of the competition. At the conclusion of the time period each team will present their solutions to a panel of judges who will evaluate each design based on criteria such as creativity, cost effectiveness, feasibilty, etc.

Re-Engineering

Team Size: 1 or 2 People

Re-Engineering tasks a team of one or two students with taking an existing technology or product and enhancing it to have new functionality. This new functionality will allow the technology or product to have a new purpose. The solutions will be assessed based on creativity and technical and commercial feasibility

Innovative Design

Team Size: 1 - 4 People 

Innovative Design highlights a novel solution to a real-world problem which competitors have prepared in advance of the competition. The competitors will have the opportunity to display their solution for a general audience. The solutions will be evaluated based on functionality, market applicability, and overall design. 

Great chance to showcase your cool capstone projects/ extracurricular engineering achievements !

Communications

Team Size: 1 or 2 People

Engineering Communications involves a team of one or two students presenting a technical subject in layman’s terms. The presentation will highlight the environmental, social, and economical impact of the technology. The judges will decide on a winner based on their presentation skills and content.

Consulting

Team Size: 4 People

Consulting challenges a team of four students to develop a comprehensive and innovative solution to a presented engineering problem. The team must also consider factors such as economic viability and environmental impact in their solution. The completed solution will be shown to the judges in both a report and a presentation.

Impromptu Debate

Team Size: 2 People

Impromptu Debate has teams of two pitted against each other, fighting for their side of a topic that is only presented to them moments before. The competitors will need to be able to develop arguments and present their ideas in order to convince the judges they are deserving of a win.

Programming

Team Size: 2 to 4 People

The goal of the Programming category is to encourage software engineering students to produce professional quality software with all the proper user and administrative documents. The teams will use their software development skills, technical writing abilities, and project management skills to design a solution. 

In your chosen category, you will be competing against other SFU teams or individuals for a qualifying spot for WEC. Please refer to the WEC Rulebook and SFU EC Rulebook (sent to your emails) highlighting categories and competition requirements.