World Varsity Engineering Challenge 2012 is a challenge, opened to all undergraduate engineering students of all engineering disciplines around the world, designed to encourage participants to attend to current concerns, stimulate their innovation, and enhance global awareness so that they will become well-diverse engineers who can contribute something significant to the civilization. As comprehensive as its name, this competition challenge its participants to be good thoretically and practically.
This competition comprises of three parts. Each part is designed to test the participants’ capabilities and skills to be engineers. The challenge is divided as following;
1. First part
a. Theory Exam
b. Proposal
c. Presentation
2. Second part
a. Ability Test (Invention)
3. Third part
a. Grand Finale
FIRST PART
Theory Exam
The objective of this activity is to test the
participants on the basic engineering fundamentals (pre-calculus and physics),
history of engineering, and some general knowledge of the engineering world
today. The questions for this exam will be in the form of multiple choice
questions only. A lot of questions will be given and standard marking system
will be implemented as well which is 1 mark will be given for each correct
answer. The duration for this exam is only 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Proposal
Teams will have
to prepare the proposal on their invention based on the rules and regulation in
the competition manual.
All proposals
must comprise of these following:
·
Specifications
of the car
o
Energy
sources
o
Design
creativity and unique features of the car
o
Illustrations
and the blue print of the car
o
Environmental
and safety features
·
Description
of manufacturing process of the car based on lean manufacturing (Gantt chart
etc.)
·
Team
organization
·
Key
Performance Indicator (KPI)
·
Relevant
diagrams of the car and speed test
Presentation
Teams must prepare and
deliver a 15 minutes verbal presentation on their proposal. The question and
answer session will be conducted in five minutes. Each team will have to
present, clarify and explain all areas stated in the proposal. This will
include the presentation on CAD Design and and Circuit Design of the invention.
The evaluation will be basically based on content of presentation, overall
performance during presentation and ability to answer questions.
SECOND PART
Ability Test
The objective of this activity is to challenge the
participants’ ability to design, build, and manufacture their inventions in a
creative way. Each group has to invent a robotic car that meets the fixed
criteria, and the cars will be tested in this test.
There will be two parts in this test; maze-obstacle and
line-following. Cars will be evaluated based on their ability to undergo all
the tests and the time taken to get to the finishing line.
THIRD PART
Grand Finale
The teams who manage to get into the best three will
proceed to the Grand Finale. Grand finale will be conducted as an oral quiz.
The objective of this activity is to test the participants’ engineering
knowledge, critical thinking, teamwork, speed of thought and strategy in
attempting questions.
After
the Grand Finale all accumulated marks from the first part until the final part
will be calculated and the team who manage to get the highest score will be
awarded as the winner of World Varsity Engineering Challenge 2012.
