Young Engineer’s Challenge

Come and put your skills to the test and enter our new Young Engineers Challenge!

Form a team of up to 4 people and pick a component of your choice. Working with a mentor supplied by SAMPE Europe, show how you would improve the component’s present sustainability by proposing a route to reduce its environmental impact. Sustainability improvements can be in any area, and examples could include areas of reducing waste or embodied energy; improving design for disassembly; light weighting; reducing operations and maintenance; or extending the service life.

Entries will consist of a 2-minute video outlining your proposal. In the first round the best teams will be selected to go forward to a LIVE FINAL. 

In this second round selected teams will be offered an impartial, industrial mentor to help prepare their presentation for the final event.

Final judging will take place on Wednesday 5th March 2025 in the Agora at JEC World 25 Paris.

Participants

• Participants must be within 10 years of completing their undergraduate degree
• Teams should consist of at least 2 members, up to a maximum of 4
• Teams may contain undergraduate, postgraduate/postdoctoral researchers and early career engineers working in industry
• Only one entry per team. However, universities/companies are welcome to enter multiple teams if they wish

Deadline

Please register your team and submit your video entry using the form below, no later than 20^th December 2024. If you need more time to produce your video, please submit your personal data only and ask for some extra time. Decision to extend the deadline until the 22nd of January to get candidates from all SAMPE Global regions.

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact:
Charlotte Salaün, YEC coordinator
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