通知公告

To all Universities, Colleges, and Institutes:

International College Students Intelligent Agricultural Equipment Innovation Competition (Hereinafter referred to as the "competition") aims to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability, stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship inspiration, and promote the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial talents in the field of agricultural equipment engineering and international exchange and cooperation for students majoring in agricultural engineering. The competition has become extremely influential in the field of agricultural equipment engineering, and has achieved remarkable results in cultivating students' innovation and entrepreneurship ability and comprehensive quality. According to the regulations, the competition is held once a year. Now relevant matters are hereby notified as follows：

I. Purpose of the competition

With the theme of "Innovation energizs the agricultural equipment, Intelligence leads the future", the competition aims to cultivate modern agricultural equipment innovation and entrepreneurship talents with "strong professional knowledge and hands-on ability, as well as excellent innovation and entrepreneurship ability" urgently needed by the industry, and creates a comprehensive international education platform, contributing to the innovative development of modern agricultural equipment industry.

II. Organization

The competition sets up leading organizations and working organizations. The leading organization consists of the Competition steering Committee and the Competition Committee (Annex 1), which has a secretariat (affiliated to Jiangsu University). The working organizations include the working group of the competition organizer and the competition evaluation expert group. 

III. Organizers

The 9^th International College Students Intelligent Agricultural Equipment Innovation Competition is organized by the following collaborating institutions:

1. Co-hosts:

· International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR)

· Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery (CSAM),

· Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE),

· Jiangsu Province and Education Ministry Co-sponsored Synergistic Innovation Center of Modern Agricultural Equipment (SICAE)

· International University Consortium for Agricultural Engineering (IUCAE).

2. Organizer:

Shihezi University.

3. Co-organizer:

China Agricultural Machinery Distribution Association (CAMDA); Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (XAAS); College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Tarim University; College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xinjiang Agricultural University

IV. Competition Requirements

1. Participant requirements and Limit number of entries for each participant:

(1) Participant requirements

Participant must be formally registered before September 2023 (including September) in the full-time non-adult of higher education institutions and vocational colleges, including junior college students, undergraduates, full-time and part-time (full-time study) graduate students. Participant may apply in teams of two to five members,It is mainly for overseas students, and can be mixed with domestic students to form a team, requiring overseas students to be the leader and the number of overseas students is half or more of the team.

(2) Limit number of entries

Class A and D works are limited to one entry for each participant.

2. Entry categories:

The entries are divided into two classes: A and D.

Class A: Scientific or Technological Inventions in Intelligent Agricultural Equipment

· A1: Invention of intelligent tillage equipment,

· A2: Invention of intelligent planting equipment,

· A3: Invention of intelligent field management equipment,

· A4: Invention of intelligent water-saving irrigation equipment,

· A5: Invention of intelligent harvesting agricultural equipment,

· A6: Invention of intelligent farm products origin processing equipment;

· A7: Basic parts (hydraulic parts, transmission system, sensors, electric drive, navigation system, etc.)

· A8: Other intelligent agricultural equipment.

The Participant with the highest academic degree is the team leader of the work, which is divided into undergraduate and graduate groups.

Class D: Conceptual Design

The works refer to future-oriented intelligent agricultural machinery and intelligent agriculture, and have advanced awareness or subversive intelligent agricultural equipment creative design, or intelligent agricultural equipment machine modeling design.

The Participant with the highest academic degree is the team leader of the work, which is divided into undergraduate and postgraduate groups.

Special statement

To avoid the requirement of 5 (1) that A works must have a prototype or a real model, some participant used the A works to apply for D works. To avoid above phenomenon, we give the following statements:

(1) D works must be subversive creative design or industrial design. In the process of formal examination, the work will be one-vote veto by the secretariat when it does not belong to this connotation.

(2) All recommended departments should strictly check the connotation of class D works. Once find out the works that belong to the connotation of class A  are recommended to apply for class D, the eligibility for application of the next year class D works will be stopped.

3. Declaration for quantity  

The number of works submitted by universities (colleges and institutes) shall be no more than 15 for class A and no more than 5 for class D.  

4. Supervisor  

Each supervisor is limited to 2 A and D works, and responsible for the originality and authenticity of the works, and each work is limited to 1~3 supervisors.  

5.  Requirements for Entries  

(1) The entries should be the prototype, physical model, software, virtual concept and other achievements independently developed and designed by the student team. The papers and patents involved must be the results of the last two years (September 2021 to September 2023). Category A works must have a prototype or physical model; Category D: Concept video (MP4, 720P, 200M or less).  

(2) The results that have been awarded by national competitions shall not be used for declaration.  

(3) It is not allowed to apply directly with the achievements of the tutor.  

(4) Do not plagiarize any achievement declaration that does not belong to me.  

(5) The core content of the works shall not be the same or repeated with the previous eight entries.  

(6) It is forbidden to use intellectual property rights (such as patents, papers, etc.) without the signature of the participating students.  

For violation of competition results, falsification of entries, the competition commission after check will be on the official website or the relevant conference within the scope of present colleges during the event list, participating college, teachers and students, at the same time disqualified from winning entries, outstanding teachers qualification and qualification of "challenge cup" of colleges and universities; If the situation is serious, relevant personnel will be held responsible according to the rules of the competition.

V. Registration

Table 1  Competition schedule

1. Competition registration

All colleges and universities shall fully publicize and launch the competition, and the participating units shall fill in the Competition Application Form (Annex 2). Please send all the attachments (Annex 2 PDF and Excel format ) to znnzds2024@163.com before March 15th, 2024. 

2. Work application

Each university organizes its own internal selection competition to select excellent works and submit them for the semi-finals. The participating universities as the unit, submit the relevant materials:

(1) Submitted time of Summary List of Works

For class A and D, please send the Summary List of Works (Annex 3) with official seal to znnzds2024@163.com in the format of PDF and Excel before April 1th, 2024.

(2) Submission time of R&D (design) report and attachments

The application form for Class A R&D report and attachment (Annex 4 PDF format, within 5M), and the application form for Class D(Annex 4 PDF format, within 5M), design report and concept video (within 720P, 200M) should be seal to znnzds2024@163.com before April 1th, 2024.

(3) Special reminder  

The key information of the works, such as the name of the works, the team members and the supervisors, should be subject to the summary list of the sealed version submitted by each university. In principle, it should not be modified later.  

3. Final, Exhibition and Rewards  

To all participating schools, please will return when the final report together with the research and development (design) the report and accessories electronic manuscript (A,D class,total number of pages within 30 pages) submitted to the email of znnzds2024@163.com,the exhibition board design draft of the works (in JPG format, the design size of the exhibition board is 0.9m × 1.2m, and the pixel is 72dpi) should be sent to the email of znnzds2024@163.com.  

During the final examination, Class A and D works will be debated on site (Annex 5). The participating teams shall bring their independently developed prototypes, physical models, software, design drawings, concept videos and other achievements to the site for display.

If the A,D works are too large in size or heavy in quality to carry or delivery logistics, they can be displayed and reported by way of live video connection, and shall not be played in the form of pre-recorded video. If you can't show live or show live video connection, the work can't get be rewarded as special, first and second prizes.

VI. Award Types

1. Student awards

There are top prizes (may be declared vacant), first prizes, second prizes and excellence prizes. During the competition, the judges will determine the number of prizes based on the entire number and quality of the entries.

2. University "Cup" award

The competition will award a certain number of "Cup" awards to the participating universities. It will be according to the total score of the winning works, from high to low score. The special prize, first prize, second prize and excellence prize are calculated according to 100 points, 70 points, 40 points and 10 points, respectively.

3. Outstanding supervisor award

The competition will award the “Outstanding Supervisor Award” to the supervisors of the top prize entries.

VII. Other Matters

1. Please visit the following websites to keep updated:

· The official website of the competition (http://uiaec.ujs.edu.cn/).

· Official website of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (http://cigr.org).

· Official website of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery (http://www.agro-csam.org).

· Official website of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering: (http://www.csae.org.cn).

2. Contact information:

· Wang Laoshi, Shihezi University; Tel: 086-0993-2058966;

· He Laoshi, Shihezi University; Tel: 18742928311;

· Hou Laoshi, Jiangsu University; Tel: 086-0511-88791271;

3. Contact information:

· competition student exchange QQ group number: 479080644;  

4. Other related information of the competition will later be released on the official website (http://uiaec.ujs.edu.cn/). 

Annex 1: Member List of Organization

Annex 2: Entry Form

Annex3: Summary List of Works Form

Annex4: Application Form

Annex5: Evaluation Rules

Attachments and forms.zip

Ninth International College Students Intelligent Agricultural Equipment

Innovation Competition Committee

December 6th, 2023