Conference competitions will consist of a wide variety of competitions that are explained below. Each competition will have a prize for the winners.
Registration for competitions can be found at the bottom on this page.
List of Competitions
- The SumoBot Competition is one of the only competitions at the SAC that allows student teams to face off directly against each other. Teams will prepare their fighters by building, designing, and coding a robot. The robot must act autonomously once the fight begins, and work to push the enemy robot outside of the arena in a Sumo-style battle. Different competitions will occur for those with pre-build bots and those that assemble their bots. Click HERE to view the SumoBot Competition Rules.
- The Brown Bag Electronics Competition involves giving a student team being given a bag of random components and is asked to use their technical background to develop a strategy to create a solution. Through this event, students are often required to combine their skills in circuit analysis and problem-solving as well as equipment skills. Click HERE to view the Brown Bag Electronics Competition Rules. Entries for the Brown Bag Competition are now closed.
- The IEEE Ethics Competition encourages students within teams to use their knowledge of the IEEE Code of Ethics to overcome a problem that exists in science or engineering. Click HERE to view the Ethics Competition Rules. Open to IEEE student members only.
- The Paper Competition will allow students to submit papers on projects and research that they have completed. A panel of judges will read, analyze and ask questions on the papers and will be able to ask students questions during the paper presentations. Click HERE to view more information on the Paper Competition. Entries for the Paper Competition are now closed.
- The MicroMouse Competition: In this competition the participant, or team of participants, must design and build an autonomous robotic “mouse” capable of traversing a maze of standard dimensions from a specified corner to its center in the shortest time possible. Click HERE for the MicroMouse Competition rules.
- The Project Showcase allows undergraduate students, as individuals or teams, to demonstrate what they have learned or worked on throughout their undergraduate career. Projects/designs (other than competing robots) can be related to school, work, or extracurricular activities that pertain to electrical and/or computer engineering. Click HERE for the Project Showcase rules.
A Hackathon is scheduled to start Friday evening and continue through Saturday. The Friday event will be the kick-off meeting where the rules are reviewed, and the Hackathon challenge presented. Click HERE to view the Hackathon rules (available soon).