York Engineering Competition
YEC is a competition open to all York students of all years. Participants work in small teams to solve a challenge and present their solutions to a panel of judges. Winning teams under each of the 9 categories will be selected to represent York at the provincial competition against other universities*.
*Only Lassonde Engineering Students will be eligible to qualify for the Provincial Engineering Competition.
Junior design
Students in their first and second years are tasked with designing creative solutions to real-world engineering problems. Competitors must design a practical solution and present it to judges making the best use of limited time and resources.
senior design
Students combine multidisciplinary knowledge to design a technical solution to an advanced engineering problem. Participants must design and present a functional solution under resource constraints and adhering to competition requirements.
Categories
re-engineering
Teams utilize their diverse skill sets to redesign an existing solution to a problem with the aim of improving its overall performance.
Innovative Design
Participants develop a novel product or service to address an unmet need or to improve upon currently available solutions. Competitors will present their nuanced designs to a panel of experts.
programming
Teams are tasked with coding the best possible software solution to a complex computational challenge. Competitors will aim to minimize execution time, maximize correctness or achieve the best overall performance.
Communication
Competitors describe the diverse social, economic, technological and environmental impact of complex engineering subject matters in layman’s terms.
CONSULTING
Competitors will develop and present an in-depth analytical solution to a multi-dimensional engineering challenge. Teams must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the diverse social, environmental, technological and economic impacts of their solutions.
Bioengineering
Teams will be provided with a narrative with one or numerous complications that must be resolved utilizing core engineering principles to develop a solution to this bio-engineering problem.