Tertiary

The National Engineering Innovation Competition

The National Engineering Innovation Competition (NEIC) was one of the first initiatives offered by REA to interest students in engineering as a career through their creation of a product, process or service that had commercial potential in some stage of its life cycle.

Offered to all engineering related faculties in universities and tertiary institutions across Australia, the program focused on developing the creativity of engineering students utilising some of the most advanced technologies available.

The Competition required:

• Bringing together the institution's capabilities in engineering, business and marketing.
• Using web technology to bring together skills and capabilities of people separated by distance.
• Adopting a Country Town to work with. The regional area could greatly influence the projects' direction due to community needs, cultural values and geography.
• Each institution must adopt at least one commercial organisation or company as a partner to help develop its innovation project.

The NEIC is currently in hiatus and will possibly be reintroduced in the future. During the first years of this project's introduction and development, many entrants delivered a variety of outstanding projects. Winning teams were awarded an international study tour to see some of the world's innovative and successful engineering industries in action.