EBEC Romania & Republic of Moldova
The European BEST Engineering Competition (EBEC) is an annual engineering competition organised by BEST. Its mission is to develop students’ creativity, teamwork and management skills by offering them the opportunity to test their theoretical knowledge or practical skills and to push their limits further by solving an interdisciplinary technological challenge.
EBEC is the biggest engineering competition for students in Europe, with nearly 6,500 students from European universities. EBEC is a 3-level, team-based competition, on 2 categories: Team Design and Case Study.
TEAM DESIGN
Team Design is a practical challenge that requires design, creation and presentation of a prototype model that can successfully meet specific construction and operation criteria, all done in a limited amount of time and through the use of limited resource materials. This year we will use online simulators.
CASE STUDY
Case Study is a theoretical problem-solving challenge. Its solution requires the analysis, creation and presentation of a technological solution for a current engineering, economical and social problem, all within a limited amount of time and resources.
Event schedule
For me, EBEC is a tradition, if I can say this. I participated at Case Study section 3 years in a row – in the 1st year I didn’t pass the local round, in the 2nd year I go to the final round in Belgrade, where we classed on the 4th position, and in the 3rd year we managed to steal the light of the flashlights and get back home with the 1st prize from Brno final. EBEC means for me adventure, sincerely, because it’s challenging my intellectual skills, and also the social one’s and interpersonal. I met so many different persons, I made so many friends all around the Europe, and bonus, the contacts from the partner companies. The answer is simple: I wanted to participate at EBEC. Because from all the contests which I participated, this was the one who made me to grow up the most, on all the plans.
Lorena Ioana Cornea
1st place, EBEC R&RM 2017, Case Study
George Ramses
1st place, EBEC R&RM 2017, Team Design
This contest means to us all the values of the life of a student: ambition, curiosity, emotion, fun, risk, friendship. Next to the best colleagues and the best friends, we had the honor to take part of the big EBEC family which transced beyond any border or language, we take part of something bigger than us and we feel the challenge of every moment. It was a wonderful experience, we build, we made mistakes, we start all over again, we enjoyed every limit moment, we risked and in the final we won.
We will never forget these great moments and I think for sure that the best moments had just began.