The aim of the PneuDrive Challenge is to give the best mechanical, electronic and mechatronic engineering students a chance to use their talent to bring together engineering theory, the latest technology in drive engineering and pneumatics and business reality.
By creating a competition environment that requires proposing, designing and assembling innovative engineering ideas, students are given an opportunity to experience a wide range of problems and project issues that they would typically need to solve in the real world.
The practical experience of analysing, debating, designing and assembling an innovative engineering idea, gives participating students business and engineering experience that goes way beyond typical lecture room experiences.
As sponsors of the competition, SEW Eurodrive and Festo recognise the importance of business in partnering with higher education institutions to help address the enormous pressures that they are under to prepare skilled engineering students for the labour market.
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What's Up For Grabs?
The prize for 2011 was an all expenses paid trip for four students to the SEW Eurodrive and Festo Head Offices in Germany. The "winning university" also had an opportunity to order R 100,000 worth of SEW Eurodrive and Festo equipment.
Universities who submitted final entries qualified for R 40,000 worth of free equipment for their universities.
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