adjust Competition Judging
format_list_bulleted Competition Tracks
Judges will be experts from respective competition track sponsors. Projects will be judged on their innovation, specification or validation plan, practicality, complexity, and working design.
Judging Criteria:
- 30 marks - Innovation
- 20 marks - Specification or Validation plan
- 10 marks - Practicality
- 10 marks - Complexity
- 30 marks - Working design
format_list_bulleted DreamCatcher Best Demo Video Award
This award is opened to teams qualifying to the competition grand finale. Winner will be selected among teams that obtain minimum 500 likes in Facebook.
Judging Criteria:
- Clarity of project showcase from problem statement, current constraints, innovations, solution demo, to impacts
- Engaging visual and speech narration to audience (including non-technical)
- Significance of the project, including problem tackled, innovations and impacts of the project
format_list_bulleted IEM Best Paper Award
This award is opened to teams qualifying to the competition grand finale. The judging is based on the final project paper submitted.
Judging Criteria:
- The overall length of the conference paper should not be more than 5 pages. The marks are given until page 5, which is the last page of the conference paper. Any content beyond page 5 will not be included for the marks.
- 55 marks - Overall Idea Development
- 5 marks - Clarity of abstract
- 5 marks - Justified problem statement
- 5 marks - Adequacy of research objective
- 5 marks - Adequacy of literature review
- 10 marks - Appropriateness of design of experiment (strength of research framework)
- 10 marks - Reliability of data
- 10 marks - Adequacy of results analysis and discussion
- 5 marks - Conciseness of conclusion
- 20 marks - Language
- 5 marks - Usage of acceptable terminology in respective field
- 5 marks - Construction of sentence (grammar, spelling etc.)
- 5 marks - Conciseness
- 5 marks - Overall Readability of paper
- 15 marks - Consistency of Format and Structure
- 5 marks - Overall organization of paper:
- Flow of paper
- Completeness of major sections
- 10 marks - Consistency of formats:
- Fonts, bullets, table, figure, etc.
- Citation and references
- Clarity of figure and table
- 10 marks - Reference
- 5 marks - Relevancy of references
- 5 marks - Up-to-date references
format_list_bulleted IET Green Technology Award
This award is opened to finalist teams qualifying to the competition grand finale, with projects related to green technology. The award is given by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The judging is based on social responsibility, environment sustainability, and green technology.
Judging Criteria:
- 20 marks - Project significance to environment (addressing current issue)
- 20 marks - Innovation & creativity
- 20 marks - Product demonstration
- 20 marks - Sustainability to Environment
- 20 marks - Engineering knowledge contribution
format_list_bulleted James Dyson Foundation Innovation Award
This award is opened to all finalist teams qualifying to the competition grand finale. The award is given by the James Dyson Foundation, the organizer of the international James Dyson Award. Judging will be based on the similar principles as the James Dyson Award on innovative product design and industrial design that employ clever yet simple engineering principles. A sustainable design, technically and commercially viable projects will be added advantage.
format_list_bulleted Innovate Malaysia Excellence Award
This is the overall winner award selected among the first prize winners of each technology tracks. Team of judges consists of representatives from government agencies, professional body, and industry.
Judging Criteria:
- 10 marks - Innovativeness of project
- 10 marks - Impact to Rakyat
- 10 marks - Potential for commercialization
