1. FSAE

Formula SAE® consists of engineering students participating in designing, building and racing an open-wheel formula-style racecar at a competition held yearly in the month of May at the Pontiac Silverdome. Over 100 colleges and universities from around the world attend the 3-day event. Teams are judged in static events, which include a marketing presentation, a design overview, and a thorough cost analysis, and dynamic events like the skidpad, the acceleration run, autocross, and endurance race. The McGill FSAE team is composed mostly of mechanical and electrical/computer students working on the project simultaneously while attending school full time.

2. Mini Baja

Mini Baja consists of three regional competitions that simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges. Engineering students are tasked to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain and shallow water.

The object of the competition is to provide SAE student members with a challenging project that involves the planning and manufacturing tasks found when introducing a new product to the consumer industrial market. Teams compete against one another to have their design accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. Students must function as a team to not only design, build, test, promote and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules, but also to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.

3. MUD Team

The McGill Undergraduate Design (MUD) team helps undergraduate students make contacts with professional staff and corporate sponsors while starting design-related competitions and projects, and encourage inter-university relations.

So far MUD has: obtained two complete high-end design computers, obtained two complete "programming computers" for use by robotics teams, upgraded the CNC computers in the Machine Tool Lab to 486s, organized the first "McGill Senior Design Competition" (Sr. MEC), helped start a "Battlebots" group, helped two teams compete in a Robotics Competition at Concordia, completely renovated 351C (ext. 4073), and helped various students with Pro-E.

4. Solar car team

Team iSun is McGill University's solar race car team. Their primary goal is to participate in solar car races. But in addition to that, they encourage student involvement, while promoting high-technology studies in engineering among high schools and CEGEP students. Finally, they strive to increase environmental awareness by presenting solar and electric energy as viable alternatives to traditional energy sources.

Team iSun is composed of 50 students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the Mechanical Engineering Department, and the School of Computer Science of McGill University. The team is advised by professors from both departments involved in the project.