The Student Design Competition (SDC) is regularly conducted by Student forum of HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Exporters Association) to encourage innovation and nurture system design capabilities and recognize the same in students of all engineering colleges and Post graduate colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

The competition is about designing an IT system for the problem given by HYSEA . Each design provided by the student in the competition is evaluated on the parameters of Originality of the solution, Completeness and Simplicity in writing the solution, Scalability and features in the design and Algorithms that are planned to be used.

This competition had a modest start in 2006 with just 5 participants and then it grew to 28 participants during 2007 to an extremely encouraging 110 participations for 2008 which ended with declaring winners on 13th Feb 2008. The prize winners for SDC-2008 are:

The problem for SDC-2008 was provided by Pramathi Technologies and equally supported by IEG (Institute of E-Governance) to ensure participation from all the colleges who are members to IEG.

This competition would be active every year during October to January. The notification and any details pertaining to competition would always be updated at www.hysea.in and on the homepage of IEG.