Student Teams

Student teams work throughout the year to build robots and human-powered vehicles or to solve algorithmic programming problems. These diverse teams give students a chance to test their academic knowledge with real-world projects.

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Show Off Your Skills

Many organizations collaborate with local professionals, giving students a chance to network during business tours, collaborative projects, guest speeches and annual conventions.

Our Teams

Baja Racing

Formed under the Society of Automotive Enginers (SAE), Baja SAE functions like a professional engineering group, completing designs, ordering parts from vendors, working within a budget and building machinery to meet strict safety standards. Throughout the six-month project, students spend an average of 20 hours a week designing, constructing and testing the vehicle, culminating in the Baja SAE Collegiate Design Competitions.

Big Beam

Starting with a pile of rebar and some bags of concrete, Big Beam tests the team's knowledge before they enter the workforce by participating in the Engineering Student Design Competition, sponsored by the Precast and Prestressed Concrete Institute. Students must design and build a 15-foot long concrete beam capable of supporting a minimum load over its span. After the beam is built and cured, the team completes a load test and writes a final report for submission.

Concrete Canoe

The concrete canoe team designs, constructs and races a canoe made of lightweight concrete for the American Society of Civil Engineers' competition each spring. This group is mainly comprised of civil engineers, but all majors are invited to compete. Non-engineers can assist but cannot compete in the formal competition. The regional competition is held every April, and the national competition is held in June. Design and analysis of the canoe takes place during the fall semester, and the canoe is cast early in the spring semester to allow adequate time for curing.

GameDev

Members of GameDev come together from different fields of study to create video games. They compete in game development competitions year-round and aim to create a finalized and possibly marketable game product for the student game design competition.

Integration Bee 

A contest for undergraduate students with prizes for the best skills in evaluating indefinite integrals, this event is hosted annually by the Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Student Organization and the UMKC Math Club. 

Kansas City Roos Esports

In collaboration with Kansas City Athletics, SSE launched competitive video game play. The group, a member of the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE), participates in the NACE Starleague competition.

Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition 

The Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition is an annual undergraduate-level mathematics competition in Missouri that started in 1996. This event takes place in the spring at the MAA MO meeting. 

Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)

The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications conducts the annual MCM for teams of undergraduate college students. Historically, this contest takes place in early February. 

UMKC Robotics

Members of the robotics team compete against other university teams for prizes at the national robotics competitions. The team competes at the National Robotics Competition in Marion, Ohio.

UMKC Steel Bridge Team

Our Mission is to challenge students to extend their classroom knowledge and skills with a hands-on steel-design project. Learn and better understand engineering concepts. During the fabrication phase, team members can learn how to use shop machinery and participate in the construction process.

The entire design-build process provides hands-on, practical experience involving real-world engineering issues that stress teamwork, innovation, safety, and professionalism.