4. Preliminary round: Each team would be given a set of question paper containing 30 multiple choice objective type questions about basic mechanical engineering, aptitude and verbal reasoning.
5. Time limit - 30 minutes.
6. Only 6 Teams would be selected from the preliminary round.
7. The second round would be a pure technical round containing questions about different streams of mechanical engineering like Thermal, Metallurgy, production, robotics, aeronautical, Mechatronics etc.
8. Rapid fire round: each team can answer as many questions possible within a minute.
9. Wrong answer in rapid fire round carries negative marking.
10. The results of last two rounds will be combined to decide the winner.
11. The participants shall not be allowed to use mobile or other electronic instruments.