About Us
UTEK 2025/26 will be the 24th UTEK Kompetition!
The University of Toronto Engineering Kompetition (UTEK) is an annual competition targeted towards undergraduate engineering students. The two day competition gives students the opportunity to apply their classroom education to discuss and solve real-world engineering problems. These range from design problems, case competitions and even debates surrounding the challenges within engineering and society. UTEK encourages deep collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and ingenuity among students in all of its competitions.
UTEK is known as the largest engineering competition at the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto! It attracts over 350 future engineers, consultants and more every year. The top teams from UTEK Kompetition then go on to represent the University of Toronto at both the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC), and the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC). The eight competitions are: consulting, programming, senior design, junior design, re-engineering, communications, debate and innovative design.
Please contact utek@skule.ca regarding any questions about how to get involved!
The purpose of UTEK is to:
1. Provide engineering students with practical experience solving current issues by collaborating with judges from academia and industry in designing the competitions
2. Benefit students from as many disciplines as possible by marketing UTEK to all faculties/disciplines.
3. Design the competitions and provide training sessions to best prepare students for OEC (Ontario Engineering Competition) and CEC (Canadian Engineering Competition)
4. Carefully select topics to incorporate elements from diversified fields of engineering
5. Carefully select judges from different disciplines and from the industry to provide unbiased feedback/comments and fair judging decisions
6. Create networks between students and industries to enhance students' careers and professional development, e.g. inviting companies to sponsor and attend our events
7. Promote engineering innovation among undergraduate engineering students by emphasizing innovation and creativity in our judging criteria
2025 UTEK Planning Team
Meet the team that has spent months planning to bring you an amazing experience!
KAISER TAM
JUSTIN FANG
HANNAH JIANG
Kompetition Directors
SYEDA MAHDIA
MATEO TOMEHO
RYAN HAMMER
CHRISTOPHER LEE
GABRIELA DOS SANTOS
AYLIN ARSLAN
MALAK KHLIFA
MARIA BANGI
MELANIE YE
ALIZA AZAM
CALVERT ZHU
FRANCESCA MANGANO
ETHAN MAO
Organizing Team Directors
YAWEN ZHANG
CONNIE CHAN
JOEL VADAKKEN
JUSTIN TRAN
DAISY HUANG
LAILA MOOTAZ
MAGGIE MA
