Student competitions
Pitch your idea, develop your business plan, or launch your start-up!
The Faculty offers competitions to its students who wish to develop their entrepreneurial spirit and skills! These constitute unique opportunities to develop your entrepreneurial – and intrapreneurial – skills and abilities, which could be of great benefit to their future professional career!
Competitions
Design Day
All students, undergraduate and graduate, in the Faculty of Engineering are invited to participate and showcase their design projects. These design projects can be physical prototypes, design plans, apps or websites. Design projects can come out of a class, research or a personal project from either an individual student or a team.
Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place.
Entrepreneurial Idea
Students who have an idea for a start-up company have the opportunity to pitch it to a panel of judges and receive direct feedback. The winners will be awarded prize money.
Entrepreneurship Concepts
Students present their innovative business plans to a panel of judges from the Ottawa community. They are required to prepare a business plan with the support and guidance of experts. Then, they present their plan for the chance to win prize money.
Launching Entrepreneurs
To participate in this competition, students must have already launched a business based on a technological innovation—or must have the intention of doing so in the near future. The winners will be offered cash prizes as well as one-on-one mentorship, an incubation space, and legal and accounting advice during this period.
Past winners
Other competitions
More competitions found on the Telfer School of Management website.
Contact us
For more information, please contact:
Hanan Anis
NSERC Chair in Entrepreneurial Engineering Design, Professor, and Faculty Coordinator in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Faculty of Engineering
Office: ARC 307
Tel: 613 - 562-5800 ext. 6709
hanis@uOttawa.ca