ASEE Model Design Competition sponsored by the ASEE Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

This competition might be just the thing to get your freshmen and sophomore engineering students excited about engineering design!
The ASEE Model Design Competition is a design/build robotics competition open to all freshmen and sophomore engineering and engineering technology students at both 2-year and 4-year colleges.  The competition is held each year as part of the ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Annual Conference.  The goal of the competition is to give student teams an opportunity to use the engineering design process to build an autonomous vehicle to complete a specified task or to complete a specified track.   Student teams face many realistic challenges in this competition, such as constraints on cost, size, batteries, and, of course, time.  Student teams not only have to build a vehicle to navigate the specified course or complete a specific task, but also have to give presentations before a panel of judges and provide the judges with written reports.  The written reports include a summary of the team's design efforts, CAD drawings, parts list, and a cost analysis.  The best part about the competition; however, is that it is fun!  Join us in the next competition and see the enthusiasm of the students as their vehicle crosses the finish line!  Select the link below for the rules for the 2007 ASEE Model Design Competition.  Also check out our list of links for robot parts.

Date	Location	Competition (select link for rules, results, photos, etc)
June 21, 1999	Charlotte, NC	1999 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 19, 2000	St. Louis, MO	2000 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 25, 2001	Albuquerque, NM	2001 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 17, 2002	Montreal, Canada	2002 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 23, 2003	Nashville, TN	2003 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 21, 2004	Salt Lake City, UT	2004 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 13, 2005	Portland, OR	2005 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 19, 2006	Chicago, IL	2006 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 25, 2007	Honolulu, HI	2007 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 23, 2008	Pittsburgh, PA	2008 ASEE Model Design Competition
June 15, 2009	Austin, TX
June 21, 2010	Louisville, KY
June 27, 2011	Vancouver, BC, Ontario
June 18, 2012	San Antonio, TX

Contact Paul Gordy at PGordy@tcc.edu or John Wadach at jwadach@monroecc.edu for more information.