Academic Olympiad
2009 Academic Olympiad Schedule
Written Exam (Times are Tentative)
Thursday, October 29
Location: TBD
8:00 pm Check-In
8:45 pm Rules Review
9:15 pm Exam Begins
Academic Olympiad Gameshow (feat. top 7 winners from Written Exam)
Friday, October 30
Location: TBD
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm (Tentative)
Sponsored by NASA
GUIDELINES
The official 2009 Academic Olympiad Competition Rules is available for downloading (pdf).
REGISTRATION
Register Online by 11:59 PM, EST, Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Remember only one (1) team per chapter.
ABOUT THE ACADEMIC OLYMPIAD
The Academic Olympiad (AO) is a team competition designed to test the technical knowledge of SHPE's Hispanic Technical Talent. The Olympiad, consisting of a written exam and an oral competition, is held at the SHPE Conference. Each official SHPE student chapter, sending 10 or more undergraduate students to the conference, is required to form ONE (1) team consisting of three (3) contestants and one (1) alternate.
All contestants, including the alternate, must be current SHPE undergraduate student members. Each team is advised to include a variety of technical backgrounds as the questions asked during the Academic Olympiad will not be limited to any one particular subject. Hispanic students are strongly encouraged to participate.
The technical areas to be covered in the competition include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Bioengineering/mechanics
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry (Organic & Inorganic)
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Engineering/Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Economics
- General Science (Trivia)
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics
- Statistics
The category headings contain a generalized breakdown of subject matter by discipline and general engineering course work.
Category headings of chemistry, computer science, math, and physics contain material learned during a student's first and second year in college.
The category headings of bioengineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, engineering economics, mechanical engineering, and statistics include course work from a student's second, third and fourth years in college.
The general science category includes questions on Latino/as contributions to science and engineering. Question difficulty increases as the rounds progress.
The complete Academic Olympiad Rules for the Written and Oral Sections of the competition will be available in late spring.
