University of Toronto Engineering Kompetitions

UTEK Senior Design 2010

The University of Toronto Engineering Kompetitons (UTEK) will be in its 16th year in 2018, 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 three or 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 teams of two, participants debate topics relevant to the Engineering profession and business and technology space in classic Pro/Against and Speaker style. Semi final and final rounds take place in public and all your fellow participants come and watch.

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
2020-2021	Valerie Ajayi	Mech 2T1 + PEY
2019-2020	Atharva Datar	ECE 2T1
2018-2019	Christopher Chu	EngSci 1T8 + PEY
2017-2018	Henry Xu(?)	ECE 1T9 + PEY
2016-2017	Alina Ma	EngSci 1T8
2015-2016	Amir Kharazmi	ECE 1T7
2014-2015	Maya Zhang	Mech 1T4+PEY
2013-2014	Kenny Wong	Chem 1T5
2012-2013	Marissa Wu	EngSci 1T3
2011-2012	Layan Kutob	Indy 1T2+PEY
2010-2011	Freddy Chen	Comp 1T3
2009-2010	Yi-Wei Ang	Indy 1T2+PEY
2008-2009	Patricia Sheridan	Mech 0T9
2007-2008	Karen On	Indy 1T0+PEY
2006-2007	Taimoor Isani	Elec 0T8+PEY
2005-2006	Robert Jackiewicz	ECE 0T8
2004-2005	Patrick Mok	Indy 0T7+PEY

Past UTEK Winners

Junior Design

Year	Team
2018	Morris Huang	Samantha Chau	Hannah Lee	Amanda Pasqualini
2017	Yilin Huang	Samuel McCulloch	Chloe Oriotis	Emma Shibata
2013	Simeon Wong	Kriss Petrounov	Rose Li	Isabella Huang
2012	Simeon Wong	Kriss Petrounov	Rong Yao	Brittany Yap
2011	Hanna Janossy	Daniel Jacobs	Newton Jain	Jad Knazyeh
2010	Michael Del Balso	Jay Zhou	Zongyi Yang	Colin Merkel
2005	Theo Soong	Benjamin Yan	David Schacter	Ricky Leung

Senior Design

Year	Team
2020	Dan Nicolau	Dylan Lamont	Jaden Reimer
2017	William Bateman	Nafis Ahbab	Jake Anderson
2013	Aleck Wu	Ling Zhong	John Luo
2011	Hubert Ka	Ryan Bradley	Philip Chen	John Qin
2010	Kevin P. Siu	Xavier Snelgrove	Brendan Wong	Charley Wang
2009	David Schacter	Vainatey Kulkarni	Owen Melville	Phil Lam
2007	David Schacter	Andrew Ngo	Owen Melville	Iliya Sigal

Consulting Engineering

Year	Team
2018	Dan Nicolau	Varun Sampat	Atharva Datar	Mayukh Haldar
2017	Ang (Leo) Li	Shahryar Rajabzadeh	Yufeng (Bright) Ye	Ji Yeon (Sally) Lee
2012	Naeem Talukdar	Ananya Tandon-Verma	Maggie Cai	Nelson Truong
2011	Navdeep Swach	Satyam Sahi	Varun Chandan	Satwick Sharma
2010	Anna Sheu	Liuba Mamonova	Sapna Mehta	Paul Klunko
2009	Akarshi Mathur	William Garcia	Shufrah Alam	Allistor Lobo

Parliamentary Debate

Year	Team
2021	Dina Bernstein	Vanessa Elefteriadis
2020	Emily Bao	Luna Amador
2018	Ilya Kreynin	Alyf Janmohamed
2017	Malik Ismail	Alyf Janmohamed
2015	Andrew Kidd	Stephen Xu
2012	Yi-Wei Ang	Wayne Lin
2011	Yi-Wei Ang	Albert Huynh
2010	Raj Pattani[1][2]	Elika Mahdavi[3][4]
2009	Yi-Wei Ang	Wayne Lin
2008	Evan Jones	Wayne Lin

Innovative Design

Year	Team
2017	Aakash Goel
2011	Azhar Ali Ahmed	Farroukh Waheed Ghouri	Qazi Wajahat Sohail	Waqass Bhatti
2010	Jacky Lau	Johnson Zhuang

Re-Engineering

Year	Team
2018	Yilin Huang	Samuel McCulloch	Chloe Oriotis	Emma Shibata

Engineering Communications

Year	Name
2017	Tzu-Yun (Bonnie) Weng
2012	Hannah Janossy, Lea Janossy
2011	Raphael Sammut
2010	Manasvini Vaidyula
2009	Raphael Sammut