Circuit Design Competition

The Student Circuit Design Contest focuses on encouraging students to specific technical problem for a student team to solve. This competition focuses on the student’s ability to design and build circuits with given components to solve a technical problem.

Eligibility

The Student Circuit design Competition invites the IEEE Student Branches and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Chapters at universities throughout IEEE Region 5 to send a team composed of two or three undergraduate students to compete. The students must register for the IEEE Region 5 Student Conference and must be a current or pending IEEE or IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu member. Team substitutions are at the discretion of the competition chair.

Only one team is allowed from each IEEE Student Branch or IEEE-HKN Chapter due to space limitations.

Rules and Guidelines

At the beginning of the competition all teams will receive the same technical problem statement and necessary components, testing and measuring equipment. A set of good to know concepts and potential component list will be published on the circuit design competition website (see link below) by October 1, 2024. The tentative event day schedule is given below:

  • Orientation – 9:00 am.
  • Circuit design – 9:15 am to 12:30 pm. During this time teams will be working on their design in the designated work bench.
  • Prepare the pitch – A work lunch will be provided and staff/volunteers will be available to answer questions.
  • Judging – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. During this time the judges will visit each teams work bench and the teams

Team and Student Registration

Each team MUST complete the online Intent to Compete form by November 1, 2024 to declare their intention to participate. This is NOT the same as registering for the IEEE Region 5 conference. In addition to this each team must also register for the conference by February 14, 2025 to ensure their place to compete.

Space is limited and the competition registration will close when the available space for twelve (12) teams is filled, but no later than 12:00 am CDT on March 15, 2025.

Both the intent to compete and conference registration links below are in the process of being configured, and will be made available shortly

Intent to Compete
R5 Conference Registration

Awards

Winners will be awarded the following prize money

  • 1st Place – $500
  • 2nd Place – $250
  • 3rd Place – $150

A W-8 (foreign person) or W-9 (US person) withholding form is required by the IEEE Region 5 Treasurer prior to disbursement. The winners must also provide their current mailing address.

Contact

We use Discord as our primary means of communicating updates about individual competitions. Click on the button below to join the R5 Discord Server. Inside the server you can find channels for all the competitions, including the Circuit Design competition (#circuits-general). The competition chairs and volunteers are members of the channel, and will respond to any questions you might have.

We strongly recommend the participants to be part of the Discord server, as all the updates regarding individual competitions will be communicated via their corresponding channels (including during the day of the event).