CEDC2026 Jeju Island Dec. 20-24
Welcome to CEDC2026
To encourage engineering students creating design solutions to real-world problems, the 16th Creative Engineering Design Competition (CEDC2026) as a special event of International Conference on Innovative Application Research and Education (ICIARE2026) will be held at Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea. Students with brilliant engineering design ideas are encouraged to submit their proposals and demonstrate their talents in front of world-renowned experts in design and manufacturing. Submitted works and reports are judged on the basis of creativity, practicality, integrity of analysis and design methodology, quality of a fabricated prototype, oral presentation and poster. All participants of CEDC2026 will be recognized by the conference chair and winners will be presented with awards including certificates.
Eligibility and Scope
Any graduate or undergraduate registered as a full-time student is eligible to participate. Both individual and group projects are welcome. An individual may participate in several entries provided each submission is on a different subject.
Judging
The judge committee includes experts in iRE-Asia Consortium from both academia and industry. The project posters will be evaluated based on the contents, demonstration and five minutes oral presentation at the CEDC2026 session. Prototype demonstration of the proposed design idea is requested as on-site demonstrations for offline participants or online live show or video playback for online participants. Every group should record around 5 minutes video previously to ensure the smooth running of the competition session.
Awards
Award certificates and other prizes will be presented in closing ceremony of the conference. The prizes will be distributed among the members in each winner team. All participants of CEDC2025 will receive recognition from the conference and organizing committee.
Important Dates
December 20, 2026: On-site Registration
December 21-23, 2026: CEDC Competition
December 24, 2026: Departure
Submission
Web Submission System:
Registration
Each poster must be accompanied by one mandatory registration for one team, and the registration fee must be paid by the registration deadline. Without the a dedicated registration, posters cannot be included into the contest.
Contacts
Korea : Prof. Bongjae Kim, bjkim@cbnu.ac.kr
China : Prof. Yi Zhu, zhuyi@ujs.edu.cn
Japan : Prof. Minoru Morita, mmorita@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
