November 7th - November 8th, 2020

Location: Zoom!

This year, MEC 2020 will be occurring completely remotely. That means any McGill student will be able to participate from the comfort of their own home! On the day of your event, we'll be sending out the competition packages via e-mail. You will then be able to work with your respective teams virtually during the indepedent work sessions before presenting LIVE on Zoom! For those requiring accomodations due to extreme time zone differences, send us an email and we will be able to explain our video-submission process! Stay tuned, we'll be udpating the website with the Zoom link for anyone to spectate on the day of the competition!

Zoom Link: Incoming!

ABOUT US

The McGill Engineering Competition (MEC) is an annual interdisciplinary event providing all McGill engineering students the opportunity to test their skills in varying competitions. The goal of MEC is to foster relationships between students by providing a setting for professional engineering practice as well as networking opportunities. Register now to compete in categories designed to challenge students in varying aspects of engineering.

Opportunity

The competition provides contestants with tools and experiences that build a framework around their strong theoretical knowledge.

Reward

The winners are selected to represent the university and advance to the Quebec Engineering Competition where they may later be selected to compete in the Canadian Engineering Competition.

Connection

During the competition, contestants get to explore their professional future and connect with leaders in their industry of preference.

CATEGORIES

Senior Design

This category is the cornerstone of MEC. Teams of four are given twelve hours to develop a prototype that will meet requirements disclosed during the day of the competition. Participants will be judged on the relevance and originality of their project as well as their ability to present it to the public and the judges. This competition is open to students having completed at least 60 credits.

Junior Design

The junior design competition is open to students having completed less than 60 credits. Just like the senior design competition, participants, in teams of four are asked to solve a problem in a limited amount of time using basic engineering skills. The day of the event, teams will be provided with the specific material that is to be used for their design. The team evaluation will be based on the quality of their prototype as well as the quality of their presentation.

Innovative Design

Participants table during the event and present innovative products or concepts they developed as a solution to a problem of their choice. This competition is highly technical and participants are expected to carry out a market research and feasibility studies as well as draw a business proposal for their product beforehand in order to promote their solution.

Engineering Communication

In this category, competitors alone or in teams of two are required to explain a complex engineering process or product to judges. The purpose is to popularize complex, intangible and abstract concepts in order to make them understandable to technical and non-technical judges. Participants are judged on the clarity of of their presentation and on their critical analysis.

Re-Engineering

Teams of two participants are asked to improve and optimize existing products so that they meet new constraints and requirements. Competitors will be evaluated on the originality of their solutions, their technical knowledge, as well as their public speaking skills.

Impromptu Debate

Two teams of two participants debate a topic that will be disclosed the day of the competition. Teams are judged on the relevance of their arguments as well as their public speaking skills and their ability to build a clear and structured reasoning.

Consulting

Participants, in teams of four are given five hours to elaborate a complete solution to an engineering related problem exposed the day of the competition. Competitors must consider social, environmental, economic, and technical aspects of the problem in their proposal and will be judged on the quality of their solution as well as their ability to clearly present it to the jury.

Scientific research presentation – Graduate Students

In this category, graduate students are required to present a Master’s or Doctorate project. This competition consists of a poster presentation in front of the public followed by an oral presentation in front of judges. Competitors will be evaluated on the innovation and technical feasibility of their project as well as the clarity of the presentation and their ability to speak in layman’s terms. The quality of visual material will also be evaluated.

Programming

You will be given a problem and challenged to create an industry-quality software that will be presetned to judges. This new competition is opened to participants of all years.

SCHEDULE


SIGNUP

Register now to compete for the chance to become McGill Engineering champions!

Sign up for MEC for the opportunity for (friendly) competition with your peers as you put skills learned in the classroom to test, in (almost) real world situations!
Quick reminder: The winners of MEC 2020 move on straight to Canadian Engineering Competition 2021 Qualifiers!


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SPONSORSHIP

Why partner with us?

MEC offers a great opportunity to engage corporations and students in a networking setting. Bringing talented students and successful businesses together can lead to long lasting connections that translate to career opportunities for students and recruitment potential for corporations. During the competition the students will be able to showcase their unique individual skills as well as their ability to communicate in group settings. Through your financial support, you encourage the engineers of tomorrow, who will become your future employees, clients and business partners!
Take a look at the sponsorship package for MEC 2019.

CLICK HERE

Access to Talent

MEC offers a great opportunity to connect talented students with corporations in a networking scenario. As a corporate partner, you will be presented with the Annual MEC Talent Bank, which contains ranked CV’s of all participants.

Giving Back to Education

Involvement in this amazing initiative is a great opportunity to get your brand name promoted as a company that is aiding in the development of local education.

Logo Advertising

MEC’s Corporate partners will benefit by having their logo on the competition's promotional material such as apparel, banners, posters, fliers, website and social media pages.

EXECUTIVES

Phil

Philippe Voyer

Chair

U3 Mechanical Engineering
As chair, Phil oversees the entire MEC committee and makes sure that all the VPs are on track! The Chair is a great resource as they often know the most about MEC - so make sure you ask them any and all quesitons! Last year, Phil was on the MEC 2019 committee as VP Competitions and is excited for his new role as Chair!

Alexandre Leblond

Alexandre Leblond

Vice-President Competitions

U2 Chemical Engineering
VP Competitions Alex is in charge of creating, implementing and judging all of the comeptitions. With extra restraints put in this year due to the COVID, Alex has been working extra hard putting together Competition Packages that are accesible to everyone for MEC 2020. Last year, Alex served as the MEC Junior Design Competition Director, this year he'll be overseeing ALL of the competitions!

Elif Kurkcu

Elif Kurkcu

Vice-President Finance

U2 Architecture
Elif knows money! As VP Finance, she works closely with all of the other VPs to generate and update the budget. A large part of her role involves securing funding from EUS, MESC and SSMU! These groups have supported MEC in the past and we thoroughly enjoying having their input into ensuring MEC can be as accesible and succesful as previous years. Elif previously served as a judge for the Impromptu Debates competition last year!

Julia Rafferty

Julia Rafferty

Vice-President Operations

U3 Civil Engineering
Julia's role as VP Sponsorship for the MEC 2019 committee has been a great help to her current position as VP Operations! In charge of procuring medals, MEC Merch and rewwards, Julia has been reaching out to local businesses and restaurants to ensure that MEC can help showcase some great local businesses off to our participants. She has some very unique ideas to implement this year so stay tuned and get excited!!!

Arneet Singh

Arneet Singh Kalra

Vice-President Sponsorship

U3 Software Engineering
This is Arneet's first time taking part in MEC and he has a big role as VP Sponsorship. His tasks include reaching out to important industry partners and companies to provide judges for our competitions as well as to procure funding to ensure that our event can be as high quality as previous years. This position has truly allowed Arneet to connect with various companies across Canada as he continues to build strong relationships with great groups!

Brenda Shen

Brenda Shen

Vice-President Communications

U3 Bioengineering
Brenda's back as VP Communications again! Last year, she did a great job creating hype/promotional content, managing registration and keeping our social media channels udpated. This year, she hopes to continue creating engaging and interesting content! Her personal goal is to double the amount of participants from MEC 2019. In addition to this, she has launched the MEC LinkedIn (give us a follow!) to help build our professional presence!

Celia Zhu

Celia Zhu

Vice-President Logistics

U3 Bioengineering
Celia's first position within MEC is as VP Logistics, where she takes care of putting together the schedule and creating the technological framework in which we'll be relying on for a virtual MEC this year!

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