“Hackathon on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): Intensive, Guided Programming,” Software Engineering

Sunday, 14.6.26 | 9:00-13:00 | Classroom 1006, Jabotinsky campus

First-year students (freshmen) in the Software Engineering Department will cope with an intensive, developmental challenge that combines a few of OOP’s core pillars: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. Their mission includes the construction of a complex and dynamic system based on ADT, which examines the ability to transform a theory into an entire project.

“Hackathon on Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (AOOP),” Software Engineering

Sunday, 14.6.26 | 9:00-13:00 | Classrooms 1003, 1005, 1007, Jabotinsky campus

Second-year students (sophomores) in the Software Engineering Department will take the hierarchical system of animal classification they developed during the semester to the next stage. Their challenge includes widening the server-client model, doing thread management, using GUI interfaces and creating advanced formats for design patterns.

“Robotic and Autonomous Systems,” Mechanical Engineering

Sunday, 14.6.26 | 10:00-12:00 | Classroom Z158, Bnei Brit campus

This bi-semester course, given by the lecturers Dr. Shayke Bilu, Dr. Chen Giladi and Dr. Daniel Stoler, covers the entire engineering life cycle of autonomous mechatronic systems. The students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are working individually or in teams of four, planning, building and evaluating a real 4x4 Mechatronic toy car, that drives physically on the back of a horizontal television board installed on a mobile wagon, with a combination of programs (Open Computer Vision in Python), integrated hardware and modern control theory.

Hackathon “Algorithms 1,” Software Engineering

Sunday, 14.6.26 |10:00-14:00 | Classrooms 1014-1015, Jabotinsky campus

The second-year women students (sophomores) in the Ultra-Orthodox extension of the Department of Software Engineering will participate in the Hackathon focusing on the solution for the problem of amortized analysis, which will serve as the summation of this topic.

Project competition in the course: “Antennas,” Electrical Engineering & Electronics

Sunday, 14.6.26 |10:00-14:00 | Classroom 168, Jabotinsky campus

The defense of the final projects will be held in the format of competitive teams of up to five students per team. Each team will give a presentation of up to 20 minutes regarding the project’s findings, including the results of simulations using MATLAB toolkits. This project also covers the planning of antennas and antenna arrays.

The Third Geo-Engineering Hackathon

Sunday, 14.6.26 |12:00-15:00 | Auditorium 110 & Jabotinsky campus lobby

The Department of Civil Engineering will hold a special hackathon dedicated to advanced topics in the field of Civil Engineering: earthquakes, geo-engineering for tunnels, tunneling methods, and technologies for underground monitoring. This hackathon is an inseparable part of the learning process in these courses that combine theoretical knowledge and creative, practical applications. Within the framework of the hackathon, third- and fourth-year students will present their projects by way of displays and posters focusing on current engineering challenges and innovative solutions in this field. The participants will deal with complex problems, similar to real conditions in the field, while developing critical thinking skills, creativity and multidisciplinary integration. This hackathon is meant to encourage thinking ‘outside the box’, doing both independent research and teamwork—while always endeavoring to deepen understanding of the connection between geology, land and rock behaviors, and advanced engineering methods for underground locations. In addition, this event provides a stage for the presentation of novel ideas, the exchange of knowledge between the students and preparation for the professional world, which requires the integration of different fields. Participation in the hackathon enables students to develop their presentations and explanatory skills, to cope with complex engineering challenges, and to acquire valuable, practical experience, while approaching the moment when they will join the working engineers in the field.

A Thinking Workshop, Industrial Engineering & Management

Sunday, 14.6.26 | 13:00-16:00 | Classroom 171, Jabotinsky campus

An experiential and competitive workshop conducted by faculty members in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Dr. Hagai Ilani and Dr. Elad Chopin, for first-year students (freshmen). The participants will form teams and cope with problems in practical thinking from the worlds of scheduling, integration and the utilization of resources. There is no need for prior knowledge—only curiosity, creative thinking and teamwork. During this workshop, the teams will solidify their solutions and present their way of thinking, and by the end of the hackathon, the outstanding solutions will be chosen according to their quality and the way they reached their solutions.

A submission in the course: “Introduction to Engineering Design 2,” Mechanical Engineering

Monday, 15.6.26 | 16:00-19:00 | Studio Z158, Bnei Brit campus

An engineering project for building a scientific/engineering game or toy, in conjunction with the “Technological Center—Home for the Advancement of Tomorrow’s Students.” The engineering challenge is to bridge the gap between the mathematical model and the mechanical reality. The game must be based on the ability to make forecasts and to make physical and engineering calculations—and not by “trial and error.” This game must exemplify at least two principles from the general list: balance, conservation of energy, gravity, momentum, transmission, and springs or magnets. Much emphasis is placed on the user experience (UX) and motor activation.