Spend a weekend competing and making memories with your fellow classmates and potentially win a prize! The Queen’s Engineering Competition (QEC) is an annual event that allows engineering students from different disciplines attending Queen’s University, to compete in a variety of engineering competition categories. The Queen’s Engineering Competition showcases the innovation and creativity of Queen’s Engineering students, throughout a day of good-natured competition.The winners of each category are selected to compete at the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC), where they compete for cash prizes and a chance to attend the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC). The categories are as follows:
Junior Design
- for first and second year students
- teams of up to 4 people
- you will be given a problem, and you must design something, collect materials, build your design, and test it! You will also give a short presentation and judges will be marking for creativity, sustainability, and performance. Senior Design
- for third and fourth year students
- the same tasks as above but with a different problem! Consulting Engineering
- open to everyone
- teams of up to 4 people
- solve an open-ended complex problem, and convince the clients (the judges!) that it is the best solution
Parliamentary debate
- open to everyone
- teams of 2 people
- argue for or against a given resolution, practice thinking on your feet and outside of the box! QEC competitors will have the chance to attend the Ontario Engineering Competition, and the Canadian Engineering Competition.
