Innovate Malaysia Design Competition

Participate in this prestigious design competition, a steppingstone to your future career.

Innovate Malaysia Design Competition is the largest design competition in Malaysia, open to all third year or final year degree engineering, computer science, IT, and science/mathematics students. The goal of the competition is to promote innovative culture in engineering design work, tackle real-world problems with practical engineering solutions, and churn out brightest talents for product development, further research, and commercialization. Technology companies, including Dassault Systémes SOLIDWORKS, Google, Intel, Keysight, MathWorks, Microsoft, SAS, and SilTerra, work together to co-organize the competition. We welcome the most ambitious, creative, and smart students to participate and showcase your talents!

supplied state-of-the-art industry technology platform for your final year project.
acquire skills on technology platform, technical competency, industry domain knowledge, & design innovation.
receive project mentorship from industry experts
gain exposure to real-world problem by taking up Design Challenge
priority access to high-value jobs offered by participating companies
challenge yourselves, prove yourselves, and benchmark yourselves, graduate with pride
showcase your talent, distinguish yourselves from others!
chance to win multiple attractive prizes

Much more than just a competition... RM100 per member non-refundable entry fee is payable upon successful enrolment into the competition.

Date	Activity
7 Oct 2019	Project proposal submission deadline ( guide & sample )
22 Oct 2019	Announce shortlisted entries
Oct 2019 - May 2020	Project implementation
Mar 2020	Mid-point clinic
13 Apr 2020	Project paper submission
27 Apr 2019	Project presentation video submission
May 2020	Preliminary judging
20 Jul 2020	Grand Finale

Applicants can choose one of the technology tracks listed below:

Google mobile or web applications
Embedded system design with Intel processor or FPGA board
Electronic hardware design and verification with Keysight handheld and USB modular instruments
System design and modeling with MathWorks MATLAB and SimulinkMathWorks
Microsoft Windows or cloud software applications
Big Data Analytics with SAS Viya
SilTerra/CEDEC/Intel IC design/fabrication process
3D CAD design with SOLIDWORKS

Please visit Tracks and Design Resources for detailed information.

An engineer applies scientific knowledge and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. While solutions can be developed with the platforms provided in Innovate Malaysia, who defines the problems?

Design Challenge brings real-life problems for participants to undertake as their competition project. Companies from various industries are throwing their design challenges. Applicants can choose to take up.

Once enrolled, additional support from the Design Challenger may be provided. This may include technical mentorship, field trip visits, access to lab facilities, prototyping assistance, etc.

This year, the Design Challengers are:

Cenergi
Continental
CREST
Cyberview
DHL Express
Sony
Innovate Sarawak Open (for Sarawak universities)
LONGi (for Sarawak universities)
SAINS (for Sarawak universities)

Team members must be from the same university in Malaysia
Each team should choose
- a technology track and tackle a Design Challenge,
- a technology track with own project, or
- a design challenge without a technology track (if none of the technology track is applicable).
Each team should have 1 to 3 members consisting of third year or final year students
Each team should have an advisor who is the lecturer from the same university
There is no limit on the number of teams from each university

Technology Tracks & Design Challenges

Judges will be experts from respective technology track or Design Challenge companies. 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

DreamCatcher Best Demo Video Award

This award is opened to teams qualifying to the competition grand finale. Winner will be selected among top 5 demo videos getting highest likes in Facebook.

IEEE Social Innovation Award

This award is opened to finalist teams qualifying to the competition grand finale, with projects tackling any society problems. The award is given by the IEEE.

Judging Criteria:

25 marks - Social Need: Relevance, Urgency, Empathy
25 marks - Social Innovator Quality: Leadership, Resourcefulness, Innovativeness, Team Effectiveness
25 marks - Strategic Direction: Viability, Sustainability, Scalability/Replicability
25 marks - Impact: Output, Potential Change

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

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

MDEC Premier Digital Tech IHL Awards

This award is opened to finalist teams from Premier Digital Tech Universitites qualifying to the competition grand finale, with projects related to digital technology. The award is given by MDEC.

Judging Criteria:

20 marks - Clear expectations
20 marks - Innovation (uniqueness in terms of tech and innovation)
20 marks - Testing (demo of the project)
20 marks - Changes (impact and benefits to the nation)
20 marks - Headmost (originality of the project)

MDEC Digital Tech Awards

This award is opened to finalist teams from universities other than the Premier Digital Tech Universitites qualifying to the competition grand finale, with projects related to digital technology. The award is given by MDEC.

Judging Criteria:

20 marks - Clear expectations
20 marks - Innovation (uniqueness in terms of tech and innovation)
20 marks - Testing (demo of the project)
20 marks - Changes (impact and benefits to the nation)
20 marks - Headmost (originality of the project)

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: