Young Austrian Engineers Contest
The Young Austrian Engineers CAD Contest , or YAEC for short , is a joint design competition for all Austrian mechanical engineering and mechatronics HTLs . All students from an HTL or a technical college with a construction from the current school year are eligible to participate. After the projects have been submitted electronically, they are assessed by a jury made up of HTL professors and evaluated according to previously published criteria. The award winners of the award-winning projects will be presented with the certificates and prizes at a public award ceremony.
Emergence
The origin of the competition goes back to an initiative of Wolfgang Pachatz, employee of the then Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, now Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Women . Until 2009, the various HTLs held a competition depending on the CAD program. The aim of a joint competition, in which construction work with all CAD programs is permitted, was overall more attractive prizes for the award winners and increased media coverage.
Framework
Submissions can be made in three categories, whereby the school award goes to the school that receives the most award-winning submissions. For group submissions, the maximum size is five participants.
| category | Attendees | Prices |
|---|---|---|
| Young Experts | Technical school + HTL up to 3rd year | see competition page |
| Advanced | HTL 4th year | see competition page |
| professional | HTL 5th year | see competition page |
| School price | all participants | Challenge cup |
Every participant in the competition receives a certificate of participation from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Women, on which is their name and the project submitted.
Competition history
At the award ceremony, the prizes are presented to the winners by well-known people from the business world, mostly technical managers or managing directors with responsibility for technology. The event is always photographed by students from a technical college, and a film is produced that is published on YouTube.
| YAEC | Number of projects | Award ceremony |
|---|---|---|
| YAEC2010 | 71 | RLB Upper Austria |
| YAEC2011 | 101 | Helmut List Hall Graz |
| YAEC2012 | 118 | VIENNA-TEC |
| YAEC2013 | 84 | LITEC Linz |
| YAEC2014 | 120 | LITEC Linz |
| YAEC2015 | 107 | LITEC Linz |
| YAEC2016 | 100 | LITEC Linz |
| YAEC2017 | 95 | LITEC Kapfenberg |
| YAEC2018 | 94 | LITEC Linz |
| YAEC2019 | 104 | Red Bull Ring Spielberg |
Previous winners
The school award is a challenge cup that was made by HTL Ferlach in 2010 and revised by HTL Vöklabruck in 2015 and goes to the school with the most award-winning submissions for one year.
| YAEC | School price |
|---|---|
| YAEC2010 | HTL Steyr |
| YAEC2011 | HTL BULME Graz |
| YAEC2012 | HTL Eisenstadt |
| YAEC2013 | HTL BULME Graz |
| YAEC2014 | HTL Vöcklabruck |
| YAEC2015 | HTL BULME Graz |
| YAEC2016 | HTL BULME Graz |
| YAEC2017 | HTL Wels |
| YAEC2018 | HTL Wels |
| YAEC2019 | HTL Zeltweg |