Think you can design a better network tower? Edotco invites uni students to join its Infrastructure Design Competition

Edotco Group in partnership with University Community Transformation Centre under Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) is organising the first Infrastructure Design Competition in Asia. The competition is open to Year 3, Year 4 and Postgraduate Engineering students who are currently studying in universities in Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Langka, Pakistan, Japan, Korea and China.

In case you didn’t know, Edotco is a telecommunications infrastructure company under the Axiata group which currently manages a wide portfolio of mobile towers in Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

The competition which carries the theme “Infrastructure for Tomorrow: Designing the Future” will be an annual commitment by Edotco to provide a platform for aspiring youths to engage with experience leaders, gain industry knowledge and attain technology exposure while applying their skills to create innovative solutions. According to the statement, they have piloted the competition in Bangladesh last year to nurture talents within the student community in the country and they have garnered a total of 28 contestants from 7 teams.

To participate, students must form teams of 2 to 4 participants with at least one member with a Civil Engineering major. After successful registration, teams are required to design a tower and foundation that fits the next generation of telecommunication infrastructure criteria based on the given Technical Framework. Edotco and the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of UKM will conduct mentorship sessions to coach participants across a period of 65 days.

Edotco is expecting more than 100 entries from top engineering universities across 16 Asian countries. The top 5 entries will be selected for a presentation to the panel of judges, consisting of experts from Edotco, the industry and academicians from UKM, which will take place in March 2022. The top 3 winners with innovative ideas will win cash prizes worth USD 5,000 in total. (about RM20,787).

Adlan Tajudin, Chief Executive Officer of Edotco Group said, “As a regional towerco, we acknowledge the importance of nurturing innovation and cultivating the importance of sustainability amongst the youth. Through this competition, we aim to spearhead innovation while upskilling youths across Asia. It is a part of Edotco’s ongoing efforts on fostering a future-ready workforce that is capable of building next-generation technologies for the telecommunications industry.”

If you’re interested, registrations are open until 24th October 2021. For more info, you can check out the Edotco Infrastructure Design Competition page on UKM’s website.