Competitions for Engineers Day 2018 included six competitions hosted by organizations from the college. This year’s competitions included the Balsa Wood Bridge Competition, the Egg Drop Competition, the Movers Challenge, the Penny Boat Challenge, Quiz Bowl, and the Radiation Shielding Competition. View a full list of rules and regulations for the competitions.
Check back later for the 2019 competitions.
Balsa Wood Bridge Competition
Hosted by: American Society of Civil Engineers
Schools design and build miniature balsa wood bridges, bring them to Engineers Day, and are tested by ASCE Student Members for structural efficiency.
2018 Results
| School | Score | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Lenoir City High School | 2482.24 | 1st |
| Pigeon Forge High School | 2258.62 | 2nd |
| Hampton High School | 2231.58 | 3rd |
View the full list of results.
Egg Drop Competition
Hosted by: Materials Research Society
The Egg Drop Competition has quickly become one of the most popular events at Engineers Day. Sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Advantage student chapter, this competition encourages students to design a device that will protect a “free range” grade A egg from breaking when dropped with the focus being on the materials used to protect the egg.
2018 Results
| Participant | Contraption | Finish (Score) |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Bowl Fome | 1st (29.13978495) |
| Kevin Maynard – Rhea County High School | Untitled | 2nd (29.83870968) |
| Hampton High School | Styrofoam Parachute | 3rd (33.70967742) |
View the full list of results.
Movers Challenge
Hosted by: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
The objective is to design and build a device that would move a marble across a room at least 12 ft with the materials specified.
2018 Results
| Team | Partipants | Finish (Distance) |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Memorial High School Panthers | Ethan Lynch, Simone Azzani, and Peyton Simmons | 1st (30 feet) |
| Sevier County High School Yeet Life | Juan Moales, Nick Branson, Dianel Gomez, Trevor Olson, and Dillion Williams | 2nd (26.5 feet) |
| Pigeon Forge High School PFT tigers | Miguel Garcia, Alexander McConnell, Austin Deleeve, Gavin Ingalls, and Hunter Rains | 3rd (26 feet) |
View the full list of results.
Penny Boat Challenge
Hosted by: Engineering Mentor Program
Students will construct a boat out of tin foil to hold pennies. Points will be given for both the ability of the boat to float, but also for the number of pennies held.
2018 Results
| Participants | Team Name | Finish (Pennies) |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Spradlin, Jefferson County High School Austin Edmonds, Jefferson County High School Elijah Burgess, Jefferson County High School |
The Jeff Co. Penny Boaters | 1st (504) |
| Chase Bowery, Sullivan South High School Ben Diamond, Sullivan South High School Michael Morelock, Sullivan South High School |
Drip Harder | 2nd (489) |
| Claire Gibson, Oak Ridge High School Carter Cobb, Oak Ridge High School Kassie Meador, The King’s Academy Jonathan Lumsden, Oak Ridge High School |
The Manatees | 3rd (477) |
View the full list of results.
Quiz Bowl
Hosted by: Tau Beta Pi
The Quiz Bowl gives visiting students a chance to show how much they know about science and math topics by working in teams of four to complete a thirty-minute written examination consisting of sixty to seventy multiple choice questions. The four teams with the best scores advance to the semifinal round, and the contest concludes with the two top teams going head-to-head for the coveted Quiz Bowl Championship.
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- Liza Barre, Collin Patton, Ethan Robson and Cady Kupfner of Knoxville Catholic High School
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- Harrison Hoytt, Cade Abbott, Kevin Wang and Luke Kronzer of Farragut High School
2018 Results
| School | Finish |
|---|---|
| Knoxville Catholic High School—Parris, France | 1st |
| Farragut High School—Z Team | 2nd |
| Oak Ridge High School | 3rd |
| Farragut High School—Whiz Kids | 4th |
View the full list of results.
Radiation Shielding Competition
Hosted by: American Nuclear Society
Students must make a shield no larger than the dimensions stated and no bigger than 15 grams that will be the best at shielding gamma rays. We will use a Cobalt-60 source and an NaI detector to determine the count rate from various distances from the shield.
2018 Results
| School | Final Score | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Memorial High School – Team 2 | 1.18 | 1st |
| Maryville High School – Team 1 | 1.88 | 2nd |
| Stone Memorial High School – Team 1 | 2.04 | 3rd |
| Rhea County High School – Team 3 | 2.05 | 4th |
| Volunteer High School – Team 2 | 2.4 | 5th |
| Rhea County High School – Team 4 | 3.4 | 6th |
| Volunteer High School – Team 1 | 4.89 | 7th |
| L&N STEM Academy – Team 1 | 5.58 | 8th |
| L&N STEM Academy – Team 2 | 6.58 | 9th |
| Pigeon Forge High School – Team 1 | 7.41 | 10th |
| Rhea County High School – Team 5 | 8.47 | 11th |
| Arlington High School – Team 1 | 8.53 | 12th |
| Rhea County High School – Team 2 | 9.51 | 13th |
| Maryville High School – Team 2 | 11.61 | 14th |
| Harriman High School | 11.97 | 15th |
| Central High School | 13.34 | 16th |
| Oak Ridge High School – Team 1 | 16.30 | 17th |
| STEM Co-op | 21.17 | 18th |
| Rhea County High School – Team 1 | 26.29 | 19th |
| Southwind | 38.65 | 20th |
| Oak Ridge High School – Team 2 | 44.65 | 21st |
| STEM Co-op – Team 2 | 47.96 | 22nd |
| Sevier Country High School – Team 2 | 74.1 | 23rd |
| Sevier Country High School – Team 1 | 93.3 | 24th |
Exhibit Award Winners
Class I Exhibits
- First Place: Material Advantage
- Second Place: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE)
- Third Place: The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
Class II Exhibits
- First Place: NASA University Leadership Initiative
- Second Place: ANS, WiN, INMM, HPS
- Third Place: Student Space Technology Association
Class III Exhibits
- First Place: Biomedical Engineering Department
- Second Place: Engineering Ambassadors
- Third Place: Reliability and Maintainability Center