“Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.”
— Thomas Tredgold
What is the International Engineering Olympiad?
The International Engineering Olympiad is a global challenge for high school students to apply scientific principles, math, and creativity to real-world problems. From figuring out:
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How to make a car go faster
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The best way to power a city
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The best way to design a bridge
This competition invites the next generation of engineers to put their skills and creativity to the test.
Unlike most engineering competitions, the International Engineering Olympiad is entirely online and is an individual competition. Regional participants take a math and science based quiz, and finalists will advance to the international round to come up with detailed technical solutions with calculations to solve an engineering prompt.
For aspiring engineers around the world, this is your opportunity to show top universities that you can apply math and science to think, solve, and innovate like a real engineer.
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Boost your college applications
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Have your work published
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Earn college consulting credit
by participating in the International Engineering Olympiad.
This is an individual competition and is fully online.
Judges Panel
Our judges are distinguished engineers and professors with deep mastery of engineering fundamentals and years of real-world engineering application. With backgrounds in education to compliment their expertise, participants will have their work evaluated by some of the top professionals in the field,
Dr. Devin Carroll
PhD, Mechanical Engineering - University of Pennsylvania
MS, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics - University of Pennsylvania
B.S. Mechanical Engineering - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Carroll has been awarded a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts as well as both a Master’s degree and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Carroll has mentored students in an academic capacity for over a decade. He specializes in robotics and the design process; his doctoral research investigated the use of “found” materials to make designing and building robots more accessible.
His research has won him a Guinness World Record for the “First robot made from ice” and he has given a TEDx talk based on his work. In his current role, he teaches students how to take the engineering skills they’ve learned throughout college and create solutions to real world problems.
Dr. Naveen Pillai
PhD, Nuclear Engineering - North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dr. Naveen Pillai is a computational physicist with expertise in developing advanced multi-physics simulation methodologies, focusing on Direct Numerical Simulation [a specialized subset of Computational Fluid Dynamics], and low-temperature plasma modelling. He has built a framework to intertwine the physics of high-resolution fluid dynamics with electrostatics; a pathway to solve unprecedented 3-D, multiphase problems involving interactions between all four major states of matter. He has extensive experience working with and optimising highly parallel codes on HPCs, especially the Argonne machines Mira, Cetus, and Theta. He is currently a Thermodynamics Engineer and R&D Head at i-Energy Harvesting, Inc. working on the development of a novel motor for use in large transport vehicles, portable power stations, and more.