Hi. You’re here—and we're glad for it—so you must have seen our promotions announcing the Analog Design Contest for the 2011-2012 school year. Named in honor of Thomas Engibous, the retired Chairman of Texas Instruments, the Engibous Prize makes cash awards to teams of engineering students who incorporate either three TI analog devices or two TI analog devices and a TI processor in their senior project or other project course design.
In this contest, you will compete with top teams from schools across North America for Engibous Prize awards:
- First Place: $10,000
- Second Place: $7,500
- Third Place: $5,000
All cash prizes are split among winning team members.
The top contest teams will come to Dallas to compete for the Engibous Prize.
Eligible Students and Projects
We encourage the following students to enter the contest:
- Undergraduate students at ABET-accredited universities in the U.S. or Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board-accredited universities in Canada.
- Students must be working on teams to build an original project for a university course. Typically this is senior design, but any course where you are designing a project using analog is eligible. Teams can have between 2 and 6 members. Projects done outside of school on your own are not eligible.
It doesn’t matter what your project is, or even whether it’s sponsored by another company. So long as it uses either 1) three TI analog ICs, or 2) two TI analog ICs and a TI processor, the project is eligible. You are welcome to use other TI ICs in your design, but only ICs from these categories count towards the 3 TI IC requirement.
At the end of the semester, you turn into us the same project report you turned into your professor, adding a page describing the TI ICs you used and how they benefited your design. It’s just that simple.
Free ICs and Evaluation Boards
As contest participants, you and your team members will have access to free ICs through our sample program as well as select evaluation boards depending on the needs of your project. Upon entering the contest, you will receive instructions on how to get the TI silicon you need.
We offer additional benefits to students at select schools with whom we have good relationships. If your school is listed as a Contest Friend or Contest Partner school at the right, click on the link to see what we offer.
Enter Now
Click here to enter the contest. Here are some other links you might find useful:
- Need an op amp but don’t want to look through the 20,000 or so we offer to find it? Our General-Purpose ICs page lists common IC types used in student projects and suggests some good general-purpose options.
- Take a look at projects from past Engibous Prize winners.
- Need tech support? Post your question on one of many forums devoted to analog topics on our E2E community web site.
- Have questions about the contest? Email us
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