Description

Introduction and Purpose:

Design Challenge is a national engineering competition conducted annually by IMechE Pakistan Group. The purpose of the Design Challenge is to simulate the requirements of a professional engineer so that students are exposed to the real-world engineering where they have to think for themselves and apply a systematic approach to solve an engineering problem within the provided constraints.

The competition consists of many phases: intra-university, regional, national and international. Universities all around the world can register for Design Challenge and this year IMechE-NPSC introduced students of NUST-PNEC to this competition. The intra-university phase of Design Challenge was conducted by IMechE-NPSC this semester at NUST-PNEC. This year’s challenge was to design an autonomous external pipe-climbing device.

Pre-Event Details:

a) Integration into the Curriculum

With the effort of senior members of IMechE-NPSC, the Design Challenge was integrated into the courseEngineering Mechanics: Dynamicswith the approval of Dean Engineering Sciences (ES) Department. This ensured that all first-year students be a part of this competition and gain this invaluable exposure to real-world engineering that would aid them throughout their professional careers.

b) Helping Sessions

All concerned students were informed of this competition one month prior to it. The team conducted a couple of sessions briefing the participating students about the purpose, rules and regulations, and details of the tournament. The senior members of the team offered students tips and guidelines on how to start working on their robots.

Event Details:

The competition was held on 3^rdMay 2019 at NUST-PNEC. 8 teams of five members participated in this competition. The competition was chaired byMs. Duaa Akhtar(Student Chair) andMr. Shaikh Adeem Ahmad(Student Vice Chair) IMechE-NPSC and faculty members of Engineering Sciences (ES) Department NUST-PNEC. The teams came up with fascinating ideas and sophisticated designs.

Winning team members: Mr. Anees Ahmed, Mr. Farzan Ahmed, Mr. Ali Raza, Mr. Asfar Younis and Mr. Muhammad Abbas.

Runner-up team members: Mr. Umar Sultan, Mr. Muhammad Umair, Mr. Haris Munir, Mr. Hammad Tariq and Mr. Osama Badar.

The two teams will be competing against teams from other universities in the national round of Design Challenge later this year.

这是第一次这样的佤邦的竞争s held at NUST-PNEC. The competition allowed students to apply their engineering knowledge to come up with a working design and put their engineering skills to the test. Working in teams, the students learned teamwork and collaboration skills. The competition was appreciated by the faculty members of NUST-PNEC. The challenge succeeded in its aim to simulate a professional engineering environment.

Written By:Mr. Muhammad Danish Siddiqui(NUST PNEC)