Research photo contest

The Art of Engineering and Architecture research photo contest is an opportunity for Faculty of Engineering faculty, students and staff to showcase their research, scholarly, and artistic work in a compelling and vibrant way.

This contest provides a creative and accessible method of sharing the ground-breaking research being done by current Faculty of Engineering community members and celebrating the global and social impact of this work.

Photography can be an effective way to express the beauty and significance of research, particularly when it comes to visualizing complex data, processes, design or phenomena. By capturing images of research in action, photographers can help to illustrate the excitement, wonder and value of scientific, engineering and architectural exploration.

This represents an opportunity Faculty of Engineering researchers to mobilize their work through compelling visuals and engage our community and the public in seeing their research in new ways.

Please provide a title for the image, a brief description in plain language (not more than 100 words) of the image and a description of the technique or technology (not more than 50 words) used to create the image and of any changes made to the image.

The plain-language explanation of the research should describe what is seen in the image and its connections to the research being conducted.
 

1. Only one image may be submitted per person. The submitted image must be owned by you and for which you hold the exclusive rights to distribute.
2. All types of image technologies may be used (i.e., photography using either natural light or other spectra, images produced by optical or electronic instruments, computer-generated images, images from models, drawings, diagrams, graphs, etc.).
3. Image files should be a .jpg, tif or png and be no less than 500KB in size, but not exceeding 99 megabytes.
4. An image may be enhanced or modified, but any changes must not alter its meaning. Colourization and graphic processing of images using software such as Adobe Photoshop are permitted to clarify or accentuate certain content, but these changes must not misrepresent or distort the content.
5. The Faculty of Engineering reserves the right to use submitted photos through this contest for promotional purposes (website, social media, publications), regardless of whether you selected as a prize winner.
6. You may not submit an image previously submitted to the Art of Engineering and Architecture research photo contest.

The Faculty of Engineering’s research awards committee, augmented with staff and representation from engineering and a faculty member from fine arts, will adjudicate the submissions and select the top 5-8 submissions based on the following primary and secondary criterion:

1. Visual quality of the image, aesthetics, intellectual engagement, emotional impact

• • Please see: “What Makes a Photo Good”

2. Effectively illustrates research, clarity of the descriptive text

After the committee has chosen the top submissions, the wider Faculty of Engineering community will vote to select the first-place, second-place and third-place prize winners through an online poll circulated via email.