The Ride Engineering Competition, hosted by Iowa State University, offers students a chance to demonstrate real-world engineering practices within the industry focus of ride engineering and design. Student teams will have 6 months to design, plan, and manufacture an attraction for 1:50 scale riders based on a prompt that includes a plot of land and desired rider experience.

Teams will receive points for three major deliverables:
a Systems Engineering Report that details the engineering decisions and actions throughout the project, a Functional Physical Model of the attraction, and a team score for Final Presentation and Outreach. Teams may also receive large point deductions for the relative cost of their ride compared to their competition.

The Competition culminates in a 1 1/2-day Virtual event featuring an 8-hour window in which all Ride Models must run continuously. During this time Teams will Service their rides whenever needed. Judges will award points based on the implementation of the ride and the team’s service preparedness, and teams will present their Ride and Engineering Process in a presentation.

Teams must consist of a minimum of two higher education students and one advisor.
The advisor must be faculty or staff of an academic institution that represents at least one of the team members (in case of members from multiple institutions) If you are a student organization, you most likely have an advisor already.
The required involvement of the advisor is to be a contact and liaison to the academic institution. Advisors are encouraged to mentor the teams but may not significantly contribute to the design or fabrication of competition entries.
All student members must be actively enrolled in a higher education program during the competition period. (Oct. 2021 - Apr. 2022)
There is no maximum student member limit on a single team.
Teams may consist of members from multiple institutions.
One institution may have multiple teams.
Advisors may advise more than one team.
Teams may not not work in direct collaboration with other teams, however all are encouraged to practice "cooperitition" by communicating and assisting the community of teams with specific issues for the improvement of all teams. Teams at the same institution must work independently.
For any questions about team formation or conduct contact the coordinators. REC.tpegisu@gmail.com

General Team Email
Represented School(s)
Represented Student Organization(s)
Team Name if different from Stu Org or School
Team Members' Name, Major, Year, School, Email.
Advisor Name, School, Email.