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Europeean BEST Engineering Competition

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Înscrierile pentru EBEC sunt deschise!

15-17 noiembrie, Rectoratul UPB

Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) București, o organizație studențească internațională, prezentă în Universitatea POLITEHNICA  București inca din 1995, invită toți tinerii pasionați de inginerie să ia parte la una dintre cele mai mari competiții inginerești din Europa, EBEC (European BEST Engineering Competition), care va avea loc intre 15 si 17 noiembrie in holul din rectoratul UPB.

  Provocarea pe care BEST București și companiile partenere o lansează în această toamnă pentru studenți constă într-un ansamblu de probe care stimulează dezvoltarea cunoștințelor tehnice, dar și a creativității și a abilităților de comunicare și lucru în echipă.

Cele două tipuri de probe propuse pentru echipele participante sunt: Case Study, un maraton al gândirii analitice în care studenții se vor întrece în găsirea de soluții pentru probleme reale sau ipotetice, susținut anul acesta de Accenture și Team Design, o probă practică, în care participanții vor avea de construit un dispozitiv din materiale neconvenționale, realizată în colaborare cu BRD – Groupe Société Générale.

  Competiția are la nivel international o structură piramidală, dezvoltată pe trei nivele: 88 de etape locale, organizate de grupurile locale BEST, 15 etape regionale și o etapă finală. Astfel, câștigătorii etapei locale din București vor avea șansa să-și testeze abilitățile de ingineri la faza regională care va avea loc în această primăvară la Chișinău și ai cărei câștigători vor merge mai departe la etapa finală din Brno (Cehia).

  Studentii se pot inscrie singuri sau in echipa până pe 10 noiembrie pe site-ul pe www.bestbucuresti.ro/ebec prin completarea formularului de inscriere

              European BEST Engineering Competition este organizat cu sprijinul Universității POLITEHNICA din București și al companiilor partenere: Accenture, BRD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise,  al sponsorilor: Avira, P&G și Troll Escape Rooms, Arta Ceaiului și Tipro, precum și al partenerilor media: Radio România Cultural, Jurnalul Bucureștiului, Radio România Actualități, Studlife, StudLand, Leaders, Hipo.ro și The Hack.

[simonlove]

EBEC Maribor

This past weekend was spent in Maribor, Slovenia, competing against teams from Vienna, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Maribor for the chance to compete in the European EBEC competition. A couple of months ago, our team won the local Graz round of the competition by constructing a little vehicle that could carry 8 kg of gravel and an egg. This time, the challenge was much harder...

We arrived in Maribor on a beautiful day, and after some walking, found our accommodation and the event venue.

You can see the rest of the team behind me looking very optimistic!

The first day was spent doing a 'city rally' which basically meant walking around the city, getting to know the famous places, and doing challenges. One of the best of these challenges was to ask the best ice cream shop in town to stack as many scoops into one cup as they could. The girl was very obliging, and created the spectacular tower below. There was time to snap a photo before it was intentionally toppled into a larger container for ease of consumption.

And of course we had to check out the old vine, the oldest grapevine in the world (over 400 years old) which still produces grapes for wine! I had seen it before but..."it never gets old". Har har har.

Day 2 was the start of the challenge. Basically our challenge was to pack rock wool (an insulation material). This is a job for very technical, computer-controlled machines made of metal. We had cardboard, wooden skewers, duct tape and some tiny electric motors. No wheels, no gears, no controllers, no switches. What I am trying to say is that we were given an impossible task, and all teams knew it. It was a strange feeling setting out with the goal to fail in the least bad way.

Over two days, our team built a device that used a vibrating table (isolated with rubber bands) to feed squares of rock wool into two rotating hexagonal drums which punched out the holes that we were required to do. This was done with a 'male' and a 'female' drum - you will see what I mean in the pictures. The drums were driven with a reduction motor that Carlos incredibly built out of rubber bands, solid foam, cardboard, a coke bottle and duct tape.

Due to all of the(unintentional) sexual innuendo in our machine (e.g. vibrating table, penetrating hexagons) we decided to go over-the-top with the presentation, and call our machine "The Sexagons". First picture is the team working on the hexagonal drums themselves:

And then the underside of the vibrating table - you can see the small electric motor with all kinds of crap glued to it to take the weight off-centre!

And finally the completed machine, with some rock wool ready to go. The table strips off the edge trim, and the 'female' sexagon catches the pieces as they come down the table, turning them between the drums where the hole is punched out. Pretty nifty, and it...sort of worked! You can see Carlos's hands working on the motor.

After all this, the judges had a look at the machines. Here is another team with their very large contraption which looked immaculate and very plausible, but had to be turned by hand:

In the end our machine did not do enough to win. We actually came dead last, though the competition was a little controversial as judging criteria were changed at the last minute! Still, it was a great experience, and I don't have to worry about the next round clashing with my thesis defense!

On the day we left, we spied this graffiti, and decided to improve on it. Simon Love is forever. Invincible!

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I promised you video, and here it is! Enjoy!

[simonlove]

The BEST Engineers

I had a fun break from thesis work this week, when I competed in a team of 4 in the double-acronym BEST EBEC competition at TU Graz. That stands for Board of European Students of Technology, European BEST Engineering Competition (surprising amount of redundancy in that name considering it's run by engineers, right?).

The premise is that each team gets given the same task, the same materials, and then some 'credits' to use in the 'store', which has all kinds of goodies. Our task was to construct something that could transport an egg, and as much gravel as possible, to a 1 square metre target area, 5 metres away. The other teams took very creative approaches, and there were even two machines powered by gravitational energy (for example: 4 full cans of beer as the counterweight, dropping down a tall frame on the vehicle and pulling strings tied around the wheels). Here is everyone hard at work:

We, however, took a very simple and measured approach. We spent up large and bought the most powerful electric motor from the store, along with two large wheels with low rolling resistance. We constructed a triangular frame out of wood, nails and glue, and used bamboo skewers as the axles. The box was fitted to the frame, and then we added a yellow switch for a bit of panache. As a final construction safeguard we used copious amounts of packing tape! Below you can see our team (myself & Carlos at the back, Trang and Theodora in front) in the early stages of construction. The next photo shows the completed vehicle, and the next the scene of our little vehicle triumphantly carrying the gravel towards the target.

To cut a long story short, our machine crushed the competition, taking a load of 8.8 kg of gravel and the egg, and delivering it perfectly into the target zone (stopped by a very technical barrier of a piece of cardboard anchored by 2 beer cans). The next best team took 3.7 kg of gravel (also quite an achievement considering their 6-wheeled contraption used beer can tops and bottoms for wheels, and a tiny electric motor). Hooray!

What does this mean? It means we go to the regional finals of the EBEC competition in Maribor, Slovenia, in May. If we succeed there then we go to the European finals in Warsaw. Here's hoping eh?

[anaerobicdigest]

Off to EBEC this Wed 10 Oct and Thu 11 Oct. Interesting sessions on  Renewable Energy-here are the Biogas ones.

[tinaparis]

EBEC Italy ;)