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2025 will be UTEK's 23rd kompetition!

The University of Toronto Engineering Kompetition (UTEK) is an annual competition targeted towards undergraduate students. The two day competition gives students the opportunity to use their classroom education to discuss and solve real 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 up to 500 future engineers, consultants and more. The top teams from UTEK then go on to successfully represent the university in 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!

UTEK Mission

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' career and professional development, e.g. inviting companies to sponsor and attend our events

7. Promote engineering innovation among undergraduate engineering students by emphasizing innovation in our judging criteria

8. Incorporate the broader UofT community and faculty

 

2025 UTEK Planning Team

Meet the dedicated team that has spent months planning to bring you an amazing experience! Reach out to their email for questions relating to their competition or position!

Competition Directors

Beliz Zorbozan

Director

Jason Zhou - EngSci 2T4 + PEY (Robotics)

utek@skule.ca

Jason Zhao

Senior Design

Arthur Zhuang - EngSci 2T4 + PEY (Robotics)

seniordesign@utek.skule.ca

Arthur Zhuang

Senior Design

Laura Elshaer - ECE 2T4 + PEY

seniordesign@utek.skule.ca

Tanya Rustogi

Junior Design

Kaiser Tam - Mech 2T7 + PEY

juniordesign@utek.skule.ca

Lianne Choong

Junior Design

Justin Fang - ECE 2T7

juniordesign@utek.skule.ca

Scott Hirano

Consulting

Elena Zhu - IndE 2T7 + PEY

consulting@utek.skule.ca

Joshua Lee

Programming

Zuha Mujib - ECE 2T6 + PEY

programming@utek.skule.ca

Uzma Ferdous

Programming

Tasfia Hassan - ECE 2T6 + PEY

programming@utek.skule.ca

Kalli Alikakos

Re-Engineering

Tahiya Taaha - ECE 2T6 + PEY

reengineering@utek.skule.ca

Mehak Afzal

Bio-engineering

Mehak Afzal - Mech 2T5

innovativedesign@utek.skule.ca

Alvina Yang

Parliamentary Debate

Alvina Yang - CS 2T5

debate@utek.skule.ca

Admin

Joesph Gordian-Nweke

Log-Ops

Jason Chen - MSE 2T7 + PEY

logops@utek.skule.ca

Siddhi Bansal

Log-Ops

George Fan - ECE 2T7 + PEY

logops@utek.skule.ca

Charlotte Fritz

Finance

Davis Ko - ECE 2T7 + PEY

finance@utek.skule.ca

Grace Li

Graphics Design

Daisy Huang - Chem 2t7+ PEY

graphics@utek.skule.ca

Grace Li

Marketing

Laila Assy - ECE 2T7 + PEY

marketing@utek.skule.ca

Grace Li

Webmaster

Malak Khalifa - ECE 2T7 + PEY

webmaster@utek.skule.ca