For too long the hardware engineering aspects of I.T. work in Pakistan had been merely an afterthought in professional competitions. With the intentions of changing this attitude, the Engineering Project Competition, a highly anticipated event was launched for the first time during SOFTEC 2007.

The exceedingly ambitious hardware-based projects submitted to the software competition in recent years, as well as our institute’s steps into the hardware engineering education arena prompted us to initiate this competition exclusively for engineering projects of undergraduate students. The evaluation of entries will follow the same pattern as that of the software competition, with participants’ entries undergoing three rounds of analysis by a panel of expert judges.

ELIGIBILITY

At max five-person teams may register. In order for a person to participate in this category, he/she must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program or has completed his/her Under-Graduate studies on or after January 1, 2010.

If a project entry is being made by a group, each member of that group must fulfil the eligibility criteria for the category in question.

In each separate category, the participants’ engineering projects will be filtered through three rigorous rounds of analysis by the judges. Apart from the competition itself, the participants also get a chance to display their projects for the general public throughout the event

The prizes for this competition are delineated below.

See Competition Rules [PDF]