Competition takes place in June at a different site each year. Industrial engineering senior design class students compete in the national design competition sponsored by the Material Handling Industry of America. Much like WERC, student teams are given a design problem, which they must solve without input from faculty or outside experts. Contest teams come from schools such as Penn State, Purdue and Virginia Tech. Senior-level industrial engineering students enrolled in material handling engineering compete in the Hytrol Challenge, sponsored by the Hytrol Conveyor Company.
Students design an integrated control system to solve an industrial problem.
Civil engineering students compete in the national concrete canoe race sponsored by MasterBuilder and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The race is an open competition whereby students from any department can be on the team, but only those enrolled in civil engineering can actually paddle the boat. May. A school can enter teams in the men's, women's, co-ed and faculty divisions. Students design and build new canoes every year. However, for good, old fashioned fun, nothing beats the College of Engineering Engine Week held in the spring semester, near St. Patrick's Day.