York Engineering Competition

WHAT IS YEC?

York Engineering Competition (YEC) brings together York University students from all disciplines and years to compete in 9 different categories. Winners of the YEC qualify for the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) to represent York Engineering at a provincial level. Students who win OEC can then qualify for the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC). This competition challenges students to practice and develop practical engineering skills, while gaining valuable feedback and learning from industry professionals and professors.

COMPETITIONS

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.

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.

debate

Akin to real-world scenarios, students develop and present nuanced arguments in favour of or against an impromptu resolution. Teams go head to head in a battle of logic and rhetoric in multiple rounds of debate.

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.