Engineering video competition - $300 prize

Are you sick of the way textbooks try and explain fundamental Engineering concepts? Think you can do better? This is your chance to unleash your creative side and make a two-minute video to help others benefit from your wisdom (and win cash in the process!).

Video Topic

Understanding the crystal structures of materials such as metals, ceramics and some polymers is vital to understanding how these materials behave. Too often, however, students get lost trying to learn textbook definitions of crystallographic directions and planes. What is the relevance of crystal structures of materials to real-life? What are unit cells, Miller Indices and who is this Bragg guy and what does his law mean?

Competition rules

The competition is open to ALL students currently enrolled in an undergraduate Engineering program that have completed SEM111 (Materials 1). Videos can be no longer than two minutes, and should focus on clever, funny or innovative ways to explain or demonstrate some of the concepts involved in the topic above. Entries will be judged on the difficulty of the topic they address, and how effectively they explain or demonstrate the topic. All entries should be in a standard video file format.

Entries will be short-listed by a panel of Materials experts from Engineering and ITRI, and the finalists videos will be voted on by SEM111 students at the end of trimester 2 2011. The winning entry as judged by the students will win a $300 prize and the video will be used in SEM111 to help future students understand this topic. Submit entries or enquiries to Dr. Tim Hilditch (tim.hilditch@deakin.edu.au) by 5pm on Friday 23rd September 2011.

Any videos containing dangerous, offensive or illegal material will not be considered.