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What's involved:
Each year students are challenged to undertake a specific project.
The 2023 project is to build an internal pipe climber. Teams will be tasked with building an internal pipe-climbing robot. This is a device that can climb up the inside of a piece of vertical transparent tube lifting an increasing load, limited only by the cost and sizings listed in the competition specifications.
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Students are challenged to undertake a specific project to design, build and test:
- 2018 – an internal pipe-climber
- 2019 – an external pipe-climber
- 2021 – a repeatable vehicle
- 2022 – a line launcher
- 2023 – an internal pipe-climber
News & Updates
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The Design Challenge gives first and second year undergraduates a taste of the ‘real world’ of engineering, challenging them to design, create, present and run a device to a strict technical specification.
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Previous Winners
"More was learned from the manufacturing, prototyping and testing of our device including failures and successes, providing an understanding of real-world processes before the final reward of having a fully working product."
