University of Toronto Engineering Kompetitions

UTEK Senior Design 2010

The University of Toronto Engineering Kompetitons (UTEK) will be in its 9th year in 2011, and acts as a qualifier for the Ontario Engineering Competition. UTEK is hosted by the Engineering Society, although the Alumni Office offers large support for it, since UTEK is an event that not only showcases UofT’s engineering talent, it also engages past alumni to connect with students via judging.

Competitions

UTEK Competitors can compete in one of six categories: Junior Design, Senior Design, Consulting Engineering, Innovative Design, Engineering Communications, and Parliamentary Debate.

All six categories are held on the same day of competition, with an awards ceremony held at the end of the competition day.

Categories

Senior Design

In teams of four, students in third or fourth year compete to solve an engineering problem disclosed on the day of the event despite limited materials and preparation time. This is a condensed version of the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) 15 hour competition, and will last 5 hours. The winning team should have a creative and feasible design, allowing them to move on to the OEC.

Junior Design

This category challenges first and second year students to design and construct a project which is revealed on the day of the competition. Similar to the Senior Team Design, both time and materials are limited. They are judged based on originality, creativity, teamwork and presentation. The time for this kompetition category is four hours.

Innovative Design

This category encourages aspiring engineers to experience bringing a new product or service to the market. Teams will produce an original design for a process, service or a product they have invented. Winning entries will have combined originality , technical and economical feasibility, a solid marketing plan with a high quality presentation and exhibition.

Consulting Engineering

In teams of up to four, kompetitors will construct and a promote a solution to an engineering problem which could be given on the date of the kompetition. In this category, sufficient preparation, teamwork, resourcefulness and communication skills are the key to taking home the winning prize.

Engineering Communications

The Engineering Communication category challenges competitors in teams of one or two to present a well supported viewpoint on the social, econimic and environmental impact of any current technological issue. In this kompetition, participants must identify a technological issue, form an opinion and present a convincing well-supported argument. Winning entries will have a through understanding of the issue at hand, a convincing viewpoint and a dynamic presentation.

Parliamentary Debate

In this category, teams of two debate in previously undisclosed resolution using the format of parliamentary style debate, With minimal preparation time, they must present a well-reasoned viewpoint on the topics given.

Judging

The UTEK Judging Panels usually consist of Alumni in the industry and Professors from various departments in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

Past UTEK Directors

Year	Name
2011	Freddy Chen	ECE 1T3
2010	Yi-Wei Ang	INDY 1T2+PEY
2009	Patricia Sheridan	MECH 0T9
2008	Karen On	INDY 1T0+PEY
2007	Taimoor Isani	Elec 0T8+PEY
2004	Robert Jackiewicz	?
2005	Taimoor Isani	Elec 0T8+PEY
2004	Patrick Mok	INDY 0T7+PEY

Past UTEK Winners

Junior Design

Year	Team
2011	Hanna Janossy	Daniel Jacobs	Newton Jain	Jad Knazyeh
2010	Michael Del Balso	Jay Zhou	Zongyi Yang	Colin Merkel

Senior Design

Year	Team
2011	Hubert Ka	Ryan Bradley	Philip Chen	John Qin
2010	Kevin P. Siu	Xavier Snelgrove	Brendan Wong	Charley Wang

Consulting Engineering

Year	Team
2011	Navdeep Swach	Satyam Sahi	Varun Chandan	Satwick Sharma
2010	Anna Sheu	Liuba Mamonova	Sapna Mehta	Paul Klunko

Parliamentary Debate

Year	Team
2011	Yi-Wei Ang	Albert Huynh
2010	Raj Pattani	Elika Mahdavi
2009	Yi-Wei Ang	Wayne Lin
2008	Evan Jones	Wayne Lin

Innovative Design

Year	Team
2011	Azhar Ali Ahmed	Farroukh Waheed Ghouri	Qazi Wajahat Sohail	Waqass Bhattih
2010	Jacky Lau	Johnson Zhuang

Engineering Communication

Year	Name
2011	Raphael Sammut
2010	Manasvini Vaidyula
2009	Raphael Sammut