Overview
This category is for Undergraduate students in their final graduation year at any governmental/private faculty of Engineering or Computer Science can participate with their graduation projects. Basic Rules
• Team Formation: Participants should form teams of minimum of 2.
• Sponsorship Details:
      o Having a sponsor is a must to continue in the competition phases.
      o Sponsors Can be:
             Industry Entities.
             Private business companies.
             Governmental Organizations. Competition Schedule:
The MIE competition starts in August 2008 where teams will pass through phases starting by a summer training camp and ending with the competition finals in August 2009.

The competition phases are as follows:

Activity	Date
Applying and Selection	20th June 2008 – 1st August 2008
Summer Training	16th August 2008 - 20th August 2008
Market Research and Sponsor Engagement Phase	30th August 2008 – 4th December 2008
Submit Final Idea (1st Filtration Point)	4th December 2008
Concept Development and System Level Desig	December 2008 – March 2009
Mid Year Training	30th January 2009 – 1st February 2009
Submit 1st Report	7th February 2009
Detailed Design and Testing Phase	March 2009 – July 2009
Submit Final Report (2nd Filtration Point)	23rd May 2009
Finals (Prototype is ready)	1st August 2009

Students from each team should go to the registration page and fill the competition application form then submit the application electronically.

The MIE Committee will select the team who will continue in the competition phases based on the info included in the application form.


The selected 350 students will attended a summer training camp in Cairo or Tanta with accommodation support.

The training will include softskills, business skilss and technical training. The training represents an orientation phase for teams to help in enhancing their entrepreneurial skills to take their innovations into market.

The training topics are:

#	Training Topics
1	Communication and Presentation Skills Learn how to communicate and show your ideas professionally with different stakeholders in 1-to-1 and Panel situations (sponsors, judges…etc).
2	Teamwork Create a team that can work together effectively, understand each others, handle conflicts and survive united to the end.
3	Negotiation Skills Negotiate with sponsors and different stakeholders targeting a Win-Win deal.
4	6 Thinking Hats Utilizing a variety of approaches within thinking and problem solving, thus servicing the needs of all individuals concerned.
5	Entrepreneurship Get the vision and spirit of Entrepreneurship and know how to be an entrepreneur.
6	Fundamentals of Marketing Understand basic marketing concepts and customer/market needs. Create innovative ideas, added values and competitive edges.
7	Industry Analysis & Competitive Strategy Understanding market analysis and how to reflect research and analysis result on developed product/service.
8	Business Writing Articulate your ideas clearly and effectively through abstracts and proposals to get a winning deal and communicate professionally with sponsors and different stakeholders using different types of writing.
9	Project Management Learn how to plan the project time plan, allocate resources (Human, financial, tools…etc) and plan for different risks.
10	Intellectual Property (IP) and Copyrights Know the concept and importance of IP and learn how to protect your innovations through a set of best practices.
11	Product Design and Development Learn how to get into a professional product development lifecycle starting from product planning and gathering customer needs until making your prototype.
12	How to get a sponsor Learn how to get in contact with potential sponsors and how to present your project idea effectively to get a winning deal.

Teams should study the market and make a market research with the target of having a project idea that satisfies real need, put an initial technical design and get a sponsor for this idea. At the end of this phase every team must have a sponsor and apply a full proposal containing project details, company information and sponsorship deal to continue to next MIE phases.

You have 2 scenarios to get a sponsor for your project; either to contact sponsors on your own or send to one or more of the companies in contact with MIE. In both cases, the sponsor should send to MIE sponsorship confirmation email with the final proposal attached.


The final proposal consists of:

The filtration will be based on the final proposal. It’ll cover these main points:

In this stage each team should generate different design concepts for their project and find an integral solution for any problem related to the project.

Teams should refer to the book “Product Design and Development” for more information about this stage.


In this training there will be seminars to attend with topics suitable to this stage:

#	Training Topics
1	Public Speaking
2	Business Planning
3	Technical Writing
4	How to start your own business
5	Entrepreneurship and Busienss Networks

There will be also an evaluation meeting at the same time as:
    o Teams will present their projects, the progress they have achieved, problems that they overcame and problems that still exist
       to the committee and to other teams.
    o You will be evaluated by the committee and get advised for the problems either in the team management or in the project        progress.


This is mainly concentrating on the market research phase. It represents a very informative and useful source for you during this period. It's very important to read the Product Design and Development Book and apply it practically in your research. This report will guide you through the book and will be very supportive for you through this phase.

You should start working on this report during the market research phase to make best use of it. Don’t postpone it till last days.


Teams should finish complete specifications of the product – materials, geometry, purchased parts…etc – and prepare the process plan for the fabrication and assembly of the project, and more.

Also should finish prototype forming and evaluation on several copies before yielding the real product.


This report will cover the technical design and the prototyping issues. It’ll be very useful to guide you to reach a strong design and get used to make technical design documents. The filtration will be based on your project’s technical and business aspects in more details.

Qualified teams will make it to the MIE Finals.


Judging Panels
The teams will present their projects to judges’ panel: