Celebration of Engineering Design

Guidelines and Information

2023 Celebration of Engineering Design
Friday, June 9, 2023

The College of Engineering will host the 2023 Celebration of Engineering Design competition to showcase the best of the 2023 Senior Design teams.

Date and Location

The Celebration of Engineering Design event will take place in Mitchell Auditorium and the first-floor Bossone lobby on Friday, June 9, from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Any senior design/capstone team from the College of Engineering can participate in the General Senior Design Competition. Specific teams will be selected to compete in the Senior Design Champion Competition based on department criteria. In each section of ENGR 113, the instructor may select one team to be part of the First Year Design Competition. Any undergraduate students in their sophomore, pre-junior, or junior year that are conducting research, may be part of the Undergraduate Research Competition.

Schedule

12:30 Welcome
12:40 Introduction of Judges, Review of Procedures
12:50 Chemical Engineering
1:00 Civil, Architectural, Environmental Engineering #1
1:10 Civil, Architectural, Environmental Engineering #2
1:20 Construction Management
1:30 - 1:40 Break
1:50 Electrical and Computer Engineering #1
2:00 Electrical and Computer Engineering #2
2:10 Engineering Technology
2:20 Materials Science and Engineering
2:30 Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics #1
2:40 Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics #2
2:50 - 3:00  Transition Time
3:00 - 4:00 Public sessions begins for Judges & Faculty
4:00 - 4:30 Tabulation of votes
4:30 Awards Ceremony with Dean Walker

Judging

Celebration of Engineering Design

Departments invite external judges to help rank the design projects. They will be reviewing a set of written reports, the oral presentation, and the poster sessions. Each report gives more detail on each project’s background, analysis, and results. The oral presentations are given before the judges and other attendees, but no questions are taken at that time. After all the team presentations have concluded, poster sessions will be opened for a question-and-answer period for judges and others. Judges score the report, presentation, and poster session using rubrics provided for the event.

Scoring will be based on weighted voting by the external judges plus all Drexel faculty, staff, and students with a Drexel University ID.

Awards

Every Senior Design team in the final competition will be considered for the following awards:

  • 1st Place - $2,500
  • 2nd Place - $1,500
  • 3rd Place - $1,000
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