Competitors will be presented with a real-world industry problem and must generate a practical, creative and feasible solution. With limited time and resources, teams must design, create and test a physical prototype before delivering a brief presentation to a panel of judges. All competitors must be enrolled in the first two years of their engineering degree. As competitors will be at the early stages of their studies, the competition will be based off of a general level of engineering topics.

Similar to Junior Design, competitors will be presented with a real-world industry problem and must generate a practical, creative and feasible solution. With limited time and resources, teams must design, create and test a physical prototype before delivering a brief presentation to a panel of judges. All competitors must be enrolled in the last two years of their engineering degree. As the competitors will be in the late stages of their studies, the design may require a collaborative effort from multiple engineering disciplines.

Competitors will develop a sophisticated and commercially viable product or service that fulfills a need or improves on an existing design. During the competition, competitors will showcase their final recommendation in the form of a professional presentation to panel to judges.

Competitors are tasked with producing industry-quality software to solve a given problem. The software will be presented to a panel of judges for evaluation.

Competitors will be challenged to redesign an existing product or process either by improving an existing design or by adapting it for a completely new purpose. Competitors will be judged based on the functionality, practicality, feasibility and marketability of their final product.

The purpose of the Consulting Engineering competition is to challenge competitors to design a detailed solution to a large-scale engineering problem. The proposal must be made in a way that promotes the solution to the client (in the form of judges). Competitors must demonstrate resourcefulness while acting in good faith with the spirit of the competition.

Often in the industry, engineers are required to argue for or against a proposal with limited preparation time. Using the format of parliamentary debate, competitors will be assigned to either defend or refute a previously undisclosed resolution. The subiect of the debate will relate to the fields of engineering, and science and their impact on society.

Competitors will generate a sophisticated presentation in which they identify an applicable process or issue and generate a clear argument that analyzes the social, environmental, technical, and economic impacts associated with their argument. A professional presentation will be conducted to a panel of judges with varying technical backgrounds.