Undergraduate Competitions

The SHPE Conference Competitions are a great opportunity to not only showcase your talent to recruiters and other attendees but to also put your skills to the test.

Technical Paper & Poster

These competitions provide undergraduate and graduate participants an opportunity to compete by delivering their research in written and oral form before an audience of their peers.

Extreme Engineering

Is a non-stop 24-hour competition that engages teams against each other to find out who can out-design, out-develop, and out-promote the others in a race against time, talent and creativity.

Academic Olympiad

This two-stage competition tests the engineering, math and science knowledge of SHPE Student Chapter teams from across the nation.

Design Competition

The SHPE Foundation Design Competition is intended to simulate creative, intellectual and entrepreneurial spirit; develop technical presentation skills; and instill cooperation essential in a technical design project. Competitors must research, design, build, and test a marketable product and write a relevant technical paper within an allotted timeframe.

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