2025 Challenge Overview
Each faculty advisor and student team worked with their local NECA chapter and contractors to deliver a proposal containing information they learned about the electrical contractor’s role when a projects delivery method is design build. Students put themselves in the position of an electrical contractor and performed various tasks related to the design of electrical systems in the project provided to them.
Teams received a narrative, a basic set of architectural and structural drawings, and a Revit model with just architectural and structural links included from ELECTRI staff at the time of registering for the challenge. These materials provided the foundation to design and virtually construct the most innovative electrical system to meet Customer X’s needs
Electrical Contractor’s Innovation Challenge Winners
1st Place: Penn State University
2025 ECIC Winners:
- 1st Place: Penn State University
- 2nd Place: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 3rd Place: Wayne State University
- Best Presenter: Derrick Thomas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Most Complete and Detailed Estimate: Iowa State University
- Most Innovative Energy Saving Solution: Iowa State University
- Best Media Campaign: Wayne State University