Hosted by Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility

The purpose of this activity is to introduce the students to the Polymers chain characteristic and how they can put a skewer through a balloon without breaking the polymers’ chain and popping the balloon.

Hosted by American Society of Civil Engineers and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bridges made in advance.

The objective of this event is to design and construct the lightest bridge capable of supporting a given load over a given span. The bridge must allow the passage of one Hot Wheels Car of any variety along the entire length.

Hosted by Systers, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and HackUTK

Pre-registration encouraged.

Students will work in small teams (1-3 members) racing against the clock to capture as many digital ‘flags’ as they can before the competition’s end. Flags are secret codes found by solving computer science-based puzzles and challenges, which ramp up in difficulty as students progress.

Hosted by Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and UT American Institute of Chemical Engineers Student Chapter

Pre-registration encouraged, limited availability.

Students in small teams (1-3 members) will compete in a chemistry-themed Jeopardy challenge designed to highlight how chemistry concepts connect to chemical engineering. The competition will consist of five preliminary rounds, with three teams competing in each round. The top three teams from the preliminary rounds will advance to the final round, where one winning team will emerge.

Hosted by Alpha Omega Epsilon

Students will work together in teams of 4-6 people to stack the cups into a pyramid without using their hands to touch the cup. This is done by members working together to expand and contract the rubber band (with their individual pieces of string) around the cups to stack them. The team with the fastest built pyramid wins.

Hosted by the Biomedical Engineering Society

This challenge has students design an item that helps improve people’s day to day lives. Once at our table students will be given supplies to draw out their device. If needed we will give them specific problems to solve but we really want this to be an activity where students can be as creative as they possibly can.

Hosted by Materials Research Society

Devices made in advance.

The event consists of dropping an egg in a contraption made by participants off a bridge onto a target. Participants make a contraption of various household or store-bought materials with the goal of preventing the egg from breaking when dropped. The event encourages the participant to consider their contraption from a materials design perspective, including factors like contraption weight and complexity.

Hosted by The Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers

Teams of 2-4 students compete to strategically build a lego design that is built the quickest with the best quality compared to opposing teams.

Hosted by Institute of Transportation Engineers

Mini Metro is an online puzzle game where participants will design efficient rail transit networks for growing cities. Participants will play up to 5 rounds, with their highest score recorded along with their name and school. At the end of Engineers Day, the top individual score and the top school score will be revealed.

Hosted by Heath Integrated Business and Engineering Program

Students are given popsicle sticks, rubber bands, tape, and string to build a bridge where they need to balance both material cost and structural integrity. Competitors also give a 30-second pitch on their bridge design. Students are judged on how much weight it can hold at the midpoint of the bridge as well as additional points for the best pitch, which covers the reasoning behind the design and the optimization of the material cost of the bridge.

Hosted by Engineering Youth Education

Work individually or in groups of 2-3. Each will be given a square of aluminum foil and a certain number of pennies. Groups/Individuals are to construct a boat out of the foil to hold as many pennies as possible without sinking.

Hosted by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Students will build their own miniature cars using popsicle sticks, disks, and other miscellaneous craft materials. Once completed, the cars will be raced to see which design performs best. The car that travels the farthest distance in a single release will be declared the winner.

Hosted by Biomedical Engineering Society

Devices made in advance.

This challenge has students design a usable, below knee, leg prosthetic with found items. Students will design and construct a leg prosthetic within the criteria mentioned in the guidelines/rules that can hold weight, allow students to walk and jump, be comfortable to wear, as well as get in and out of chairs. This challenge can be completed individually as well as in teams of any size!

Hosted by Tau Beta Pi

The quiz bowl consists of three rounds of questions related to engineering and math. Teams that perform well in the first round continue to the second round and likewise to the third round where the team that scores the best wins the competition.

Hosted by American Nuclear Society and Women in Nuclear

Shields made in advance.

The competition aims to introduce high school students to an aspect of nuclear engineering: radiation shielding. Students will prepare at home a shield that meets the guidelines in the rules and bring it to Engineers Day. Each shield will be tested to see how effectively it blocks radiation from a Co-60 source and the team with the lowest detected count rate relative to the weight of the shield wins.

Hosted by Tennessee Water Resources Research Center

Students will work in small teams (1-3 members) to design and build a small network of pipes that deliver water from an elevated reservoir to three storage containers. The objective is to design a network that delivers water equally to each container. The team that designs the network that fills the containers most equally wins the competition.

Hosted by American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

Students will work individually to design and construct windmill blades out of paper plates and straws with the goal of generating the most power.