To encourage engineering students create design solutions to real-world problems, Creative Engineering Design Competition (CEDC) will be held as a special session of International Conference on Innovative Application Research and Education (ICIARE) in Sacheon, Korea. Students with brilliant engineering design ideas are encouraged to submit their proposals and demonstrate their talents in front of world-renowned experts in design and manufacturing.

Submitted reports are judged on the basis of creativity, practicality, integrity of analysis and design methodology, quality of a fabricated prototype, oral presentation and poster. All participants of CEDC will be recognized by the conference chair and winners will be presented with awards including certificates. CEDC will also host a round table of international social exchange that can be a seed for possible future international collaborations between attendants.