ASCE’s Regional Competition: 
Hosted by Cornell University, the annual event is the regional qualifier for the ASCE national competition for the concrete canoe team and the steel bridge team. The teams consist of first class cadets who designed, built, and competed against students from the other universities in the region. Additionally, three cadets competed in the Mead Ethics Essay competition with a written essay and an oral presentation. ASCE club representatives competed in a series of mystery events, which included an AutoCAD competition and a photo scavenger hunt on the Cornell campus. West Point performed exceptionally during the three days of competition, winning awards in all categories including Steel Bridge Presentation, Concrete Canoe Design Paper, Mead Paper Presentation (Mackenzie Vaughn), Mystery Event, and Sportsmanship.
ME490 Trip to General Electric’s Global Research Center: Cadets travelled to the GE Global Research Center (GRC) and received a number of briefings about general areas of research within the GRC’s Aero-Thermal and Mechanical Systems (ATMS), and other research divisions.
SAE Mini Baja Competition: 
A team of twelve mechanical engineering majors and one systems engineering major competed in the Society of Automotive Engineers Baja Competition in El Paso, Texas. This is the culminating event of two semesters of engineering design and building for the cadets. The competition includes a sales brief, design brief, thorough technical inspections, and four dynamic events: acceleration, hill climb, maneuverability, and suspension and traction. The final event at the competition is a four-hour endurance race. On a course that rendered many cars inoperable with broken components, the cadets had only two minor issues needing repair, and a major component failure with less than 3 minutes of the race remaining.
Innovation Cadets and Technology Visionaries: A group of EECS cadets conducted interviews of forward thinking technology leaders and innovators as part of XE492 – Disruptive Innovations. Cadets discussed disruptive technology and innovation, digital currency products such as BitCoin, and the RFID Consortium and applications of RFID technology, among many other topics.