13 universities from around the country entered the Ride Engineering Competition in Winter of 2023.

Over the following 3 months, TEA@ND submitted multiple deliverables including:
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• Project Charter - lists stakeholders, design criteria, and the initial design

• Preliminary Design Review - involves presenting and receiving feedback from industry professionals

• Poster and Proof of Life (video of ride functioning)

• Final Hand-in - Safety Report, Mechanical Systems Design, and Control Systems Design

The prompt was to design, engineer, and manufacture a section of a
roller coaster attraction inside a size box. The Ride would start and end at provided tracks entering and exiting the size box. Teams used a ride vehicle chassis designed by the REC, and attached rider containment to the chassis. Teams were able to add additional systems and equipment to the chassis. At the end of each cycle after exiting the section on the exit track, the ride vehicle is lifted to the start track, and a new cycle would begin. Each team ran their section for 6 hours straight at Carowinds theme park.

Points were awarded to each team by 22 judges working professionally at major companies throughout the industry based on presentations and documentation from each team.