EBEC Nordic http://www.ebec-nordic.com Nordic BEST Engineering Competition Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:21:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Case Study Winners http://www.ebec-nordic.com/2011/05/case-study-winners/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=case-study-winners http://www.ebec-nordic.com/2011/05/case-study-winners/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 13:56:41 +0000 coreteam http://www.nordBEC.com/?p=935 The the first three positions of nordBEC 2011 in the Case Study is listed below together with the  judging criteria.

Congratulations and the best of luck in EBEC’11 Istanbul!

First Position

Anirudh-Swetha-Vivetha-Girish (Stockholm)

Second Position

Erik-Axel-Sebastian-Erik (Gothenburg)

Third Position

Thor-Sven-Henrik-Sjur (Trondheim)

Judging Criteria

Case Study task: Child labour in the industry (60%)

  • Ideas and general impressions (30%)
    • Originality 10%
    • Creativity 10%
    • Confrontation with reality (10%
  • Content (30%)
    • Amount of content 15%
    • Analysis from different perspectives 15%
  • Presentation (30%)
    • Pedagogic / Explanation skills 15%
    • Questions 15%
  • Team Spirit (10%)

Case Study task: Earthquake and Power Plant leak (40%)

  • Ideas and general impressions (30%)
    • Originality 10%
    • Creativity 10%
    • Confrontation with reality (10%
  • Content (30%)
    • Amount of content 15%
    • Analysis from different perspectives 15%
  • Presentation (30%)
    • Pedagogic / Explanation skills 15%
    • Questions 15%
  • Team Spirit (10%)

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We are finally very happy to announce the winners of nordBEC 2011 in the Team Design category in our webpage!

Below you can check out the first three positions and the judging criteria.

Congratulations and the best of luck in EBEC’11 Istanbul!!”

First Position

Karl – Jonas – David – Louise (Stockholm)

Second Position

David – Joel – Linus – David (Gothenburg)

Third Position

Edmundas – Emil – Raminta – Algirdas (Copenhagen)

Judging Criteria

Team Design task: Paper Bridge (50%)

  • Presentation (20%)
    • Design process – 5%
    • Design justification – 10%
    • Presentation delivery – 5%
  • Design Quality (20%)
    • Aesthetics of the prototype – 10%
    • Creativity – 10%
  • Testing (60%)

Team Design task: WesternGeco RTV (50%)

  • Presentation (10%)
    • Design process – 2.5%
    • Design justification – 5%
    • Presentation delivery – 2.5%
  • Design Quality (40%)
    • Aesthetics of the prototype – 5%
    • Safe construction and demonstration of prototype – 5%
    • Adopting Acoustic Unit – 20%
      • Successful demonstration of lowering and lifting the Acoustic Unit – 10%
      • Remaining the acoustic unit lifted up during the whole testing process – 10%
    • Creativity – 10%
  • Testing (50%)
    • Checkpoint 1 – (10%)
    • Checkpoint 2 – (20%)
    • Checkpoint 3 – (10%)
    • Checkpoint 4 – (10%)
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Friday was the last day of the competition of nordBEC 2011. The day began with presentations of the team design projects, followed by vehicle testing – those assembled the day before.

Each design project team was expected to make a ten-minute oral presentation to the juries, Q&A included.  This oral presentation should be professional, demonstrating good presentation techniques. Structured to include all key aspects of the project though, the presentations should be easily understood by the audience with no prior knowledge of the project. The presentation will be graded based upon fixed criteria.

After the presentation all the teams were allowed to show their skills with the assembled vehicles. Each team was provided with two chances in case of any technical errors. The final results were announced during the closing gala.

A short session about Scandinavian Education was held at NTNU auditorium. The participants were highly encouraged to ask any questions.

The closing ceremony was held in a Hotel located in Trondheim city centre. During which, the winners of both categories – Team Design and Case Study – were announced.

After the closing ceremony an international evening took place. Participants and organizers were welcomed to present their traditional food or drink of their countries.


]]> http://www.ebec-nordic.com/2011/04/last-day/feed/ 0 Third Day http://www.ebec-nordic.com/2011/04/third-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=third-day http://www.ebec-nordic.com/2011/04/third-day/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:05:24 +0000 coreteam http://www.nordBEC.com/?p=995 The day started with an introduction of the new tasks for the Case Study and Team Design.
In the Case Study category the students where ask to evaluate the real life-based story of the powerful earthquake that cause the   devastating tsunami which heavily affected the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant site. The task is to investigate in the case and present a solution so that such events will not happen in the future.
The Team Design task was to design and build a vehicle – the WesternGeco Desert Explorer vehicle prototype. The vehicle should be able to mechanically lower and lift the given acoustic unit (wooden brick) in real life used for seismic measurements. The vehicle should also be able to operate in various conditions therefore it has to pass a testing track containing various obstacles such as sand, uphill, downhill, rocks, etc..
Case Study presentations where then held after the lunch but Team design continue building.
After the presentations and the deadline for the building did Schlumberger held a presentation about the company, how it is to work there and what opportunities they offer.

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Fernanda, the coordinator of nordBEC 2011, gave a brief presentation about the organization BEST and the concept of the European BEST Engineering Competition, which nordBEC is part of. It was followed by welcome speechs from Per Martin Sandtrøen, head of student council, Trond Smaavik from NITO, Norway Engineering and Technologist Organization and Knut Fagerbakke, Deputy Mayor of Trondheim. Gaston and Dias, the main organizers of nordBEC, were also present ready with practical info.

The day’s activities followed with two parallel competitions, Team Design and Case Study. Each of the categories with 8 teams consisting of 4 people, in a total of 64 participants.  The Case Study Topic Director, Mangesh, gave the participants of the Case Study competition a short introduction to the task that they were supposed to complete within five hours.  The Team Design Topic Director, Pradeep, gave the introduction of the task for the Team Design competition.

In the Case Study competition the students were asked to evaluate a case where a major multinational furniture company had found out that their subcontractors in South Africa used child labors to produce rugs. The teams were asked to propose a plan of action to the company and a broader solution for the child labor issue in a general scale. It was a modified case based on a real story.

In the Team Design competition the teams were asked to use their engineering skills to build a bridge with a limited amount of materials, as paper and glue.  The bridge had to span a space 50 cm wide and 80 cm high. The primary objective was to build a construction that would support a maximum load of cans.

Besides the main competition, a miniBEC (mini BEST engineering competition) was organized to challenge the students at NTNU as well. The task was to build a helicopter out of paper and throw it from a one floor height.

After the time was up, the Case Study teams used their presentation skills to present their innovative solutions to the jury.  The bridges from the Team Design were loaded with cans to see how stable they were under weight, all bridges hold to the maximum load. All in all, the teams did a great job in both competitions!

The great effort of the day was celebrated by many team members and organizers with a beer in bar in the center of Trondheim in the evening.

Thursday the 14th we will have the second Case Study and Team Design competitions. We will come back with more news soon!! Keep tuned

See more pictures here.

Second Day

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