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Sponsorship
DC2005 Gold Sponsors:
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Sponsors benefit from Design Competition via exposure to many of McCormick's brightest students. As in our past
Design Competitions, a table will be provided to allow company personnel to interact with McCormick students
and other attendees during the day of the competition. The sponsor will also gain exposure via company logos
placed on the course, on the competitors T-shirts, and on the official DC 2005 web page. In addition to
exposure, sponsors will also receive a resume book of the competitors.
DC2005 Silver Sponsors:
Northwestern School of Engineering Deans
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We believe this will help in your recruiting efforts at Northwestern. By contributing $5000 to DC 2005, the
sponsor can become a Gold Sponsor. In addition to the exposure provided to all donors, Gold Sponsors will be
invited to a preview reception and breakfast the morning of the competition, where they will meet the Dean of McCormick
School of Engineering and Applied Science, the members of the student teams and their
faculty advisors, and the members of the DC 2005 Executive Board.
DC2005 Bronze Sponsors:
Kenneth Porrello
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Hands on Experience
Design Competition is an open-ended problem to which competitors devise their own strategy and implement their
robotic design within the bounds of certain basic rules. It is an excellent opportunity for students to use the
engineering design skills and creativity that they are developing during their undergraduate education.
The nature of the competition is often interdisciplinary, so teams are usually comprised of students from several engineering disciplines working together. It is truly a concrete design experience that requires real-world thinking which can sometimes be overlooked in a strictly classroom environment.
DC encourages students to be innovative in all aspects of the competition: basic game strategy,
robot design and competition rules, and course design.
Successful innovative strategies, have varied tremendously over the year from simple mechanical devices to
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complex programming of the agents based on anticipation of other team's strategies.
Student members of the Executive Board also benefit greatly from the DC experience. The Board's
main responsibility is the overall management of the competition. While each member performs many tasks
necessary during the yearlong planning required for the competition, members are
primarily responsible for a specific part of it.
These areas include:
- overall management,
- finance,
- course construction and rules direction,
- public relations,
- team management,
- logistics and event planning,
- and Internet development
Being part of the Executive Board is a great experience in managing a
project of considerable magnitude.
Community Outreach
Design Competition, which occurs as the culmination of McCormick Engineers Week in May, is an outdoor spectacle
that many members of the university and the surrounding communities have enjoyed attending.
In fact many of last year's spectators were local junior high and high school students who were given an
exciting glimpse into the fun and creativity involved in engineering design. This year we hope to do an even
better job in reaching out to our local schools.
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