The competition will be performed in 3 competition days.
There will be only 3 different tasks:
1. Hardware design:
This task is divided in three different parts, from creating a schematics to a final working prototype.
First step will be creating a circuit. The student will draw on paper a circuit, do all calculations, consult all datasheet to solve the proposed problem. The marking criteria will be analyzing the competitor's circuit functionality according to the requested propose.
The second step is route a PCB. After submitting the own answer of the first part, a template answer schematics will be provided to the competitor. The competitor uses this template schematics to create a PCB on Altium Designer. To help training for this matter, check this page. The marking criteria will be based on completing the routing according to the proposed design rules within the best practices guide.
Finally, the created board will be manufactured using a Rolland milling machine and the competitor must solder and make the circuit work. As it is a prototype board, it doesn't have any solder mask (green paint) and it's only one face. At this time any SMD components will be used, only PTH. After finish milling the board it will look similar to the image bellow:
If the competitor were not able to finish the second step, is possible to use a template board to solder. The board production is not competitor's task, only soldering.
If after solder the circuit doesn't work, the competitor needs to find the problem and fix the problem within the task time. The marking criteria will be functionality and soldering quality.
More information about the hardware task performed can be found here.
More information about the hardware task performed can be found here.
2. Software design:
There will be a totally different project from Hardware design. In this task the competitor doesn't need to assembly any hardware, a working model will be provided. The target for this task is only programming. This year the microcontroller will be Arduino compatible.The marking criteria will be only functionality. Each task has an amount of points and who complete the highest number of tasks achieve more marks.
A training exercise can be found here.
The actual test project performed during the competition can be found here.
The actual test project performed during the competition can be found here.
3. Assembly:
This task is to test the manual ability of the competitor, it's also a completely different project from the other past two. A small robot kit will be provided and the competitor needs to assembly all mechanics and cables, burn the program and finalize with a working robot.
To see the actual assembly project from Emirates Skills 2018 click here.
To see the actual assembly project from Emirates Skills 2018 click here.
Marking scheme:
Nether competitors or Experts know about the marking scheme before the competition. This rule was created to avoid competitors of focusing on tasks that provide more points. Any way, as the competition is gone, here you can find the marking scheme used during assessment.
Note that all criteria categorized as "Measurement" can only be consider right or wrong based on some concrete fact, something that can be easily measured. In the other hand, when is something too hard to measure "Judgment" is used and the experts decide before judging what would be the consider according to industry standards.
The assessment during competitions is very sharp and the experts have no mercy marking wrong to a "almost right" aspect. Excellence is sought and only an outstanding work isn't questionable.
Competition agenda:
Couple months before the event all competitors had the opportunity to attend to a trainning about Altium Designer and soldering.
Was also possible to know more about the detailed time table, the schedule is available here.
Photos from the event:
The even was great! Bellow there are some pictures
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