 |
| NTCC Extreme Engineering Challenge |
|
|
Extreme Engineering Challenge
Are you ready for the biggest technical challenge of your scholastic lifetime? Have you always heard of “thinking out of the box” but have not truly experienced it? SHPE brings you the Extreme Engineering Challenge at the SHPE National Technical and Career Conference (NTCC) in Denver, Colorado on January 11, 2007. Extreme Engineering Challenge (XEC) is an engineering competition among a select group of university student members guided by a team of sponsoring company representatives to DESIGN, DEVELOP, and PROMOTE an innovative idea. XEC helps promote a student’s engineering skills by challenging their imagination, creativity, organization, and business skills to get an innovative idea to market. XEC provides a structured environment to simulate an accelerated working scenario with deadlines, presentations, reviews, and obstacles to build awareness and the necessary skills on meeting the demand of extreme engineering.
The entire competition takes place in a 24-hour continuous period. Teams strategize to be able to perform the tasks necessary in the allotted time and add their intellect, creativity, imagination, and business skills to experience the entire engineering process. The challengers begin by submitting their application online or onsite right before the event begins to the extreme engineering committee. The committee invites all registered students to a mini-interview session, referred to as QuickXchange, where they speak and mingle with all the sponsoring company representatives for a maximum of 5 minutes each. The sponsoring companies have the option of selecting any participating student as a draft choice. The MINI interview session is scheduled to last for about an hour. Immediately after the MINI interview session the company representatives, serving as Team Consultants gather in the BOARD ROOM to begin the draft process. Here is where the teams are put together following a set of rules. Once the teams are established, the entire group of challengers, team consultants and Lead Corp of Engineers (moderators) will meet in a conference room to announce the teams, distribute the challenge packets, team colors, explain the rules and START THE CHALLENGE.
The challenge is composed of multiple events and milestone checkpoints that introduce additional challenges and guidance into the engineering process.
The entire challenge culminates at the end with a presentation to a Board of Directors (final judges) that will score the team on different areas. The final winners will be announced on Saturday evening at the awards show and the new EXTREME ENGINEER will be crowned. Do you have what it takes?
SIGNUP for The Extreme Engineering Challenge:
Registration starts at 6:30PM on WEDNESDAY, January 10, 2006 at the tables outside the Centennial D on the THIRD floor.
|
|
|
|
|
|
