# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AKDC'26: ABUL KALAM DESIGN CHALLENGE 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am (+05:00)
- **Event Description**: Get ready to take on the Abul Kalam Design Challenge 2026, where innovation meets real-world engineering! This year’s challenge focuses on designing and building an autonomous external pipe-climbing device 🧗‍♂️⚙️. Inspired by industrial applications like wire-rope inspection robots and cable installation systems, your machine must climb a vertical pipe, interact with targets, carry and release a load, and return, all without external control once started.

Your journey from concept to execution will be assessed through the following key elements:

1. Challenge Execution ⚙️

How efficiently and accurately does your device complete the required climbing, stopping, returning, and load-release operations within the given time?

2. Engineering Design ✨

Does your device meet all technical constraints (size, autonomy, mechanism) while demonstrating innovation, robustness, and practical feasibility?

3. Poster Presentation 🖼️

How clearly does your poster communicate the working principle, design process, and key engineering decisions?

4. Oral Presentation 🎤

Can you confidently explain your system’s design, working mechanism, challenges faced, and real-world applications?

5. Performance Metrics & Scoring 📊

How well does your device score based on timing, accuracy, load handling, interaction with targets, and completion of mission steps?

For further details contact event leads:

Ibrahim Arif +92 332 3275197

Maidah Fahim +92 334 1232754

Nadia Bilal +92 314 2133685
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/karachi/akdc26-abul-kalam-design-challenge/200029951772255
- **Event Categories**: Contests, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Karachi
- **state**: SD
- **country**: Pakistan
- **location**: NED University of Engineering and Technology
- **lat**: 24.931724120766
- **long**: 67.112563785104
- **full address**: NED University of Engineering and Technology, NED University of Engineering & Technology University Road, Karachi - 75270, Pakistan, Karachi

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is AKDC'26: ABUL KALAM DESIGN CHALLENGE  being held?
  - **A:** AKDC'26: ABUL KALAM DESIGN CHALLENGE  takes place on Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am to Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am at NED University of Engineering and Technology, NED University of Engineering & Technology University Road, Karachi - 75270, Pakistan, Karachi.
- **Q**: Who is organizing AKDC'26: ABUL KALAM DESIGN CHALLENGE ?
  - **A:** AKDC'26: ABUL KALAM DESIGN CHALLENGE  is organized by IMechE NED Student Chapter.

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