Many organizations collaborate with local professionals, giving students a chance to network during business tours, collaborative projects, guest speeches and annual conventions.
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.
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.
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.
UMKC's Design Build Fly (DBF) team, Aeroos, applies fundamental engineering principles to designing, building and testing an aircraft to execute a variety of objectives. Each year's objectives will be defined by the annual AIAA DBF competition requirements and will provide new design and manufacturing challenges for the team to overcome.
SSE launched competitive video game play with the Esports team, a member of the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE), who participates in the NACE Starleague competition.
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.
A contest for undergraduate students with prizes for the best skills in evaluating indefinite integrals, this event is hosted annually by the UMKC Math Club.
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.
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.
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.