About the Olympiad

 

 

Universities are invited to take part in the International Students Olympiad on Metal Forming Processes, which will take place in April and May at universities around the world.

 

The prize fund is amounted to 5000 euro.

 

Mission

Student Olympiad is our contribution to the education progress. The aim of the Olympiad is to build a professional community, to create a strong relationship between educational institutions and production companies. We are trying to motivate students to study modern simulation and manufacturing technologies. Students get an opportunity to build their professional portfolio, and companies get an opportunity to find talented and perspective specialists.

Since 2014, our team has been organizing the International Student Olympiad. We have involved more than 14 countries, more than 40 universities and about 150 participants every year.

The Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee of the Olympiad consists of professors, researchers and industrial representatives from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Vietnam, China. 

Preparation

To prepare, we provide reports from past winners and conduct free training courses on simulation. For universities we provide Academic license for three months.

Organization and conducting

The Olympiad consists of three sections:

1. Hot Bulk Forging
Students will get a drawing of an axisymmetric part after machining and should design the hot forged part and die impression for the final forging and then determine the necessary technological chain for its manufacturing and then simulate the proposed forging process.

2. Extrusion
Students are required to develop an aluminum profile extrusion technology.

3. Shape rolling
Students should select a caliber system, calculate calibration in QKaliber CAD, complete simulation in QForm, and prepare caliber drawings.

Each participant can only compete in one section.

Organizers are asked to submit a competition entry with a list of applicant students. If the local organizer invites students from multiple universities then each university is limited to 3 participating students so if more are interested in participating, then each university must pre-select 3 most qualified participants. If only one university is involved with a local organizer, then more than 3 students may participate. On the day of the event in April  competing students should arrive to assigned class room and each student will work on a personal computer with QForm simulation and CAD software installed and will have 6 hours to design the technology, to simulate it and to create a report using text editor such as Microsoft Word. Students’ reports should include calculations and justification of the proposed technology, applications and drawings in text file as well as saved QForm FE-simulation file. Each report will have special random number to achieve fair and unbiased judging. The results will be judged by a local committee. Winners will get diplomas and prizes. Then 1st place winners from each country will move on to the Scientific Committee judgment between countries where three best students’ reports from around the world will get special diplomas and prizes. Basic language of the Olympiad is English. Each Organizer may use different languages for reports but the students’ reports for International Committee judgment have to be translated into English.

Universities taking part in the Olympiad could get a free 3-month QForm academic license to practice before the Olympiad by request. Students could get free QForm Cloud Academic license to use it from home. The universities will also get the solved example from the previous Olympiad for review as well as a training course of simulation in QForm.

Awarding the winners

The award ceremony can be organized at the university, we transfer the prizes to the organizers. Or the QFORM team invites the winners to participate in conferences, forums or other professional events and awards them during the event. Winners receive diplomas, souvenirs and cash prizes.

Mátyás Kovács, the winner of Hot Bulk Forging Section-2023

Krisztián Korsós, the winner of Hot Bulk Forging Section-2022

Tayler Samuel Francis, of Hot Bulk Forging Section-2024

Deadlines:

  • January: Organizational Committee membership confirmation letter (including contact person) to [email protected]
  • February: Competition entry from universities (including request for QForm license if needed)
  • March: List with applicant students
  • April-May: Recommended date of the Olympiad at universities

 

Find out more:
Mission and history about Olympiad in presentation (.ppsx)