Engineering Innovation Challenge

What is the competition about?

Building on past efforts, the Energy Innovation Challenge Competition first started in 2015. It aims to interest, excite and enable students to understand and experience how engineering plays a part in energy innovation. The challenge is an annual event that provides an opportunity for Innovation for students from Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, Polytechnics and ITEs to work with professional engineering and business mentors to design or invent a product to solve and demonstrate the use of an alternative source of energy. Schools can field teams of individual or several students in a team to take part in high-intensity events and camps as a run-up to the challenge. Teams will be measured by the end product, the power of team strategy and collaboration, and the determination of the students. The competition will culminate in a Project Displays, Final Judging and Awards Presentation at the National Engineers Day (NED) in Singapore. The competition will take the format of multiple categories and levels.

Previously known as Energy Innovation Challenge, this is the fifth installment of the competition sponsored by the National Research Foundation (NRF). It is jointly organised by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) and Science Centre Singapore with the support of the Ministry of Education.

The latest updates for the competition, workshops details, photographs and videos of the all the activities can be found at the facebook page.

Timeline

Introduction to EIC & Networking Party	March 2019
Workshops, Camps, Clinics	Mar – May 2019
Submission of Proposal for Preliminary Judging	1 Jun 2019
Announcement of Shortlisted Projects for Final Judging Round	July 2019
Final Judging	July 2019

Register your interest here

Who can participate in this competition?
The competition involves four categories:
- Secondary Schools
- Junior Colleges
- Polytechnics and ITEs
- University, Singapore & International
Each team is made up of professional engineer mentors or teachers, and students from Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, Polytechnics and ITEs. Teams can be made up of either individuals or a team of up to three students. There is no limit to the number of mentors. Schools may allow as many students as they wish to participate. Students have up to four months for the competition before the final judging round, with all teams invited to take part and compete during the event itself. From these teams, a final selection of 18 teams, nine from Secondary Schools and nine from Junior Colleges, Polytechnics and ITEs, will be selected for the final judging.
Is prior experience or skills in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) required?

All students, who may or may not be predisposed to science, math or technology, are welcome to participate in the competition. In fact, the competition aims to inspire, motivate and encourage students to acquire basic technical expertise while challenging the more experienced students. Participants will be given the opportunity and exposure to learn a range of skills, from design and building to finance, marketing, logistics management, arts, in order to research and build their product in this competition.
What resources are available to assist the teams in this challenge?

A series of workshops and camps aimed in building up subject content knowledge and technical skills will be provided. More information will be announced at the briefing session in March 2019.
Why involve a professional engineer? Why can't participants build the product on their own?

The competition creates powerful mentoring relationships between the students and professional engineers, mechanics or technicians. The pool of mentors includes professional engineers from some of the world’s most respected companies. Students get to work closely with and learn from these “stars” of the engineering world. Such meaningful involvement of adults in students' lives serves to developing young people’s potential.
What do I benefit from participating in this competition?
The journey of building a prototype and going through numerous rounds of revisions with consultation from experts allows participants to gain maturity, build self-confidence and have a greater appreciation of teamwork and professionalism. Students also have fun while building a network of friends and professional mentors who continue to enrich their lives.
The experience aims to enrich students':
- understanding about science, math, teamwork and the working world
- attitudes about teamwork to be significantly more positive after than before participating in the competition season

Winners of EIC 2018

Award	Team Code	School/Institution	Project Title
1st	S-24	River Valley High School	An Eco-Friendly Barbecue Pit System
2nd	S-10	Geylang Methodist Secondary School	A Personalized Breathing Zone (PBZ) Ventilation System Design for Epidemic Control in Public Transportation based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analysis
3rd	SJ-21	National Junior College	Harvesting The Kinetic Energy of Rain and Wind with a cost effective, efficient and green set up
Merit	SJ-22	National Junior College	Applying District Cooling Technology In House
Merit	S-19	NPS International School	Harnessing Energy from Footsteps/Vehicles
Merit	S-18	NPS International School	Biosensor to Monitor Atherosclerosis
Merit	S-20	NPS International School	Harvesting Energy from Sound
Merit	S-32	St. Margaret’s Secondary School	Zeolite Mister
Merit	S-13	Nanyang Girls’ High School	EVA (Electronic Vehicle Aid)
Merit	S-04	ACS International	Cooling Column

Award	Team Code	School/Institution	Project Title
1st	J-10	Dunman High School	Micro Energy Harvesting and Its Application in Water Desalination under Emergency and Stressed Situation
2nd	J-18	River Valley High School	Self-Ordering & Payment Kiosk at Food Court
3rd	J-01	Anglo-Chinese Junior College	Smart Bullying Detector in School
Merit	J-11	Hwa Chong Institution	Smart Storage Box
Merit	J-13	River Valley High School	Intelligent Recycling System
Merit	J-09	Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)	Development of a Novel Hybrid Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) and Piezo-Pyroelectric System for the Optimal Utilization of Solar Rays
Merit	J-07	Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)	Carbon-Clear Combustion Cars
Merit	J-05	Anglo-Chinse School (Independent)	Roads – A localised and Sustainable Micro-Source of Electricity
Merit	J-14	River Valley High School	Automated Energy-Free Multi-Functional Bicycle Sensor
Merit	J-15	River Valley High School	DM (Dishwasher Machine)

Award	Team Code	School/Institution	Project Title
1st	I-06	ITE College West	Robotic Helper FETCH
2nd	I-01	ITE College Central	Smart Rehabilitation Knee Brace
3rd	I-19	ITE College East	Mobility Tracker
Merit	I-09	ITE College West	Eco – Cooled Bus Stop
Merit	I-03	ITE College West	Smart Bin
Merit	I-15	ITE College East	3D Chopping Board
Merit	I-17	ITE College West	Dementia Aided Device
Merit	I-20	ITE College West	Crayfish Aquaculture System
Merit	P-05	Ngee Ann Polytechnic	A Seamless Travel
Merit	I-13	ITE College East	Intelligent and Assistive Socket

Award	Team Code	School/Institution	Project Title
1st	U-01	Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology	Affordable Braille Interface for Ebook Reading
2nd	U-33	The University of Newcastle	A Smart Wireless Healthcare Monitoring System
3rd	U-17	Nanyang Technological University	The Hand Motion Controlled Robotic Arm
Merit	U-06	University of Indonesia	Enemizer: Wealthy by Saving Energy
Merit	U-07	University of Indonesia	S3P – Smart Spring for Smart Panel
Merit	U-31	Singapore Institute of Technology	Incline and Transfer Mechanism for Bedridden Patient
Merit	U-19	National University of Singapore	Mechanized Carpark in Singapore
Merit	U-04	University of Indonesia	Casther
Merit	U-052	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Green Purifiers
Merit	U-27	Singapore Institute of Technology	Slide N Ride