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- Ingeniería de materiales
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Finals of the Ansys-UPM International Materials Selection Challenge
The International Materials Selection Challenge has, since its inception, had a strong character of international cooperation between universities and student groups from all over the world.
In the first phase, the International Materials Selection Challenge was aimed at universities in Latin America. After eight years of successful establishment and growth of the competition, with more than 80 groups of students participating, the 2022 edition went a step further.
In the second phase, the International Materials Selection Challenge included countries throughout Latin America (Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries). Given the enthusiasm of the participating groups and the work's brilliance, it was decided to take a step towards globality in the 2023 edition.
In this third phase, which we are inaugurating in this edition, we have had the participation of universities from the Americas, Africa, and Europe. The six finalist projects representing institutions from Brazil, Egypt and Spain are proof of this.
Each presentation should last 10 minutes maximum, regardless of the number of group members, with 5 minutes reserved for questions from the jury. The oral presentations must use the slides previously sent, and the language selected by the jury for all groups is English. After the jury's deliberation, the three best groups will be announced, and the prizes will be awarded.
Schudle:
- 16:30 Wellcome
- 16:40 Presentations of the finalist works
- 19:30 Jury meeting
- 20:00 Proclamation of the accesits and the winner
Modern educational approaches strongly emphasise active learning based on projects and problems, underlining the idea that learning may occur at every location and at any time: in the classroom, on a field trip, in a museum, at home, in the streets of a city, on Wikipedia, etc. Learning may happen within one of these spaces but also across them. In this respect, science fairs are a way to overlap those learning spaces into one, encouraging young people to become involved in and excited by science and technology, acquiring communication skills and the opportunity to interact with other students interested in science. Nevertheless, those activities are not usually at the University level, where the traditional way of learning is still extended.
Objectives: This Challenge encourages Materials Science and Engineering students to use their background, imagination, and wit. With CES EduPack (ANSYS) as an essential tool, competitors must solve deep a selection of materials they present. College students have to propose an original case of Materials Selection that may be based on intimate situations or forensic analysis of failures in service.
Participants: Participation is open to any student group from Europe and the Americas.
How do they participate? Since eight years ago, students can register for the Challenge online. Each student group must submit their proposal. Later, due to the high number of participants, ten finalists are selected to improve and complete their projects and present them at the finals, presently or online, at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain).
Until 2021 the participation was in Spanish for Hispano-American countries. Nevertheless, thanks to the success of the Challenge, in 2022 the Challenge was extended to Portugal and Brazil. In 2023 we are incorporating Europa and the Americas’ Universities. Obviously, in later cases, the participation is in English.
INSCRIPTION OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE CHALLENGE: Material Selection Challenge 2023