Atlantic Engineering Competition 2023

The Atlantic Engineering Competition (AEC) is an annual student-run initiative that began in 1983 and has since grown to become one of the largest and highly anticipated engineering competitions in Canada. The upcoming AEC 2023 will be hosted at Dalhousie University and will bring together 150+ of the brightest engineering students from 9 universities across Atlantic Canada. The 3-day event provides a setting for students to develop meaningful relationships with their peers while demonstrating their engineering skills in a competitive environment.

Students in teams of 1-4 compete in a series of 8 competitions designed to test their innovative, problem-solving, and leadership skills – key qualities of a successful and well-rounded engineer. Winners of the AEC 2023 will represent the Atlantic Region at the prestigious Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC), where they will pit their skills against winners from similar regional competitions across Canada.

When?

January 20-22, 2023

Where?

Dalhousie University, Sexton Campus

Competitions

Competitors will be presented with a real-world industry problem and must generate a practical, creative and feasible solution. With limited time and resources, teams must design, create and test a physical prototype before delivering a brief presentation to a panel of judges. All competitors must be enrolled in the first two years of their engineering degree. As competitors will be at the early stages of their studies, the competition will be based off of a general level of engineering topics.

Junior Design

Senior Design

Similar to Junior Design, competitors will be presented with a real-world industry problem and must generate a practical, creative and feasible solution. With limited time and resources, teams must design, create and test a physical prototype before delivering a brief presentation to a panel of judges. All competitors must be enrolled in the last two years of their engineering degree. As the competitors will be in the late stages of their studies, the design may require a collaborative effort from multiple engineering disciplines.

Competitors will develop a sophisticated and commercially viable product or service that fulfills a need or improves on an existing design. During the competition, competitors will showcase their final recommendation in the form of a professional presentation to panel to judges.

Innovative Design

Programming

Competitors are tasked with producing industry-quality software to solve a given problem. The software will be presented to a panel of judges for evaluation.

Competitors will be challenged to redesign an existing product or process either by improving an existing design or by adapting it for a completely new purpose. Competitors will be judged based on the functionality, practicality, feasibility and marketability of their final.

Re-engineering

Often in the industry, engineers are required to argue for or against a proposal with limited preparation time. Using the format of parliamentary debate, competitors will be assigned to either defend or refute a previously undisclosed resolution. The subject of the debate will relate to the fields of engineering, and science and their impact on society.

Parliamentary Debate

Engineering Communications

The purpose of the Consulting Engineering competition is to challenge competitors to design a detailed solution to a large-scale engineering problem. The proposal must be made in a way that promotes the solution to the client (in the form of judges). Competitors must demonstrate resourcefulness while acting in good faith with the spirit of the competition.

Engineering Consulting

Competitors will generate a sophisticated presentation in which they identify an applicable process or issue and generate a clear argument that analyzes the social, environmental, technical, and economic impacts associated with their argument. A professional presentation will be conducted to a panel of judges with varying technical backgrounds

AEC 2023 Sponsors

 FAQs

  • AEC 2023 is going to be held at Dalhousie University, Sexton Campus in Halifax Nova Scotia.

  • AEC is will take place from January 20-22, 2023.

  • Delegates will be staying at Cambridge Suites Hotel.

  • The dress code will be business casual for competition days, business for the banquet, with a casual option at social events.

  • Delegates should expect to meet new people, and develop their communication, design and teamwork skills.

  • Thursday and Friday night our social team has planned special events. Saturday night will be the delegate banquet with a social event to follow. Sunday will feature the career fair.

If you don't see your question answered here, take a look at the delegate package or contact the AEC Chair at sapna@dal.ca