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Challenge of the competition
Objective-The objective of this competition is to build an air vehicle which will carry two eggs to a target destination 100 yards away from the start point. The vehicle must stop within 20 feet of the destination and both eggs must be intact for the design to be considered successful. Extra points will be given, in the event of a tie, based on proximity to landing zone, cargo condition, design economy, and style/innovation points. Judges will attribute points based on these criteria using a ten point system.

Team Selection
Two teams will be formed for each department. Each team will have a team leader. This team leader must be a senior and, in the event of multiple seniors wishing to be team leaders, the election of leaders will be performed by the team members. Team leaders may enlist members from the opposing department (and would be wise to do so), but this is not required. It is imperative that sophomore and juniors be included in the design of the craft as this is a major goal of the project and all members must be included in design decisions.

Rules of the Design
Due to the competition being an engineering design competition, the use of kits will be strictly monitored. Partial use of kits to assemble a working design is permitted, but no single kit should encompass more than a quarter of the items used in the design. Keep in mind that the more one’s design relies on a kit, the fewer style/innovation points that team is likely to receive. Each team will be allotted an allowance of $250. This can only be spent on materials for the design to be used in the competition. No equipment can be purchased unless permission is first granted by the student chapter president of IEEE or ASME. This is to ensure that multiple purchases of the same equipment do not occur or that devices are not purchased which the university already has available. Each team will be loaned a radio controller for the design competition. This package will include a transmitter, receiver, several servo motors and chargers for the transmitter. Receiver batteries must be purchased using the $250 allowance. At the end of the competition all materials purchased by IEEE must be turned for use in the following year’s design competition.

Reward
A trophy will be purchased by IEEE which will reside in the winning department’s main office. This trophy will remain until the next year’s design competition. We hope that the bragging rights which come with possessing this trophy will fuel many years of fun engineering competition.

Objective of the competition
The objective of this competition is three-fold: to increase sophomore and junior interested and experience in engineering design and foster increased interest in earlier years of engineering study, to increase interaction between mechanical and electrical engineering students, and, finally, to spur a fun interdepartmental event which may become a tradition between our departments.