The final four schools were MIT, Caltech, Cornell and Purdue.

The contest is sponsored by Electronic Design and Machine Design, which are part of Informa, an international business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group. The Electronic Design and Machine Design engineering audiences and engineering students from across the country voted each week for five weeks to select the bracket winner.

Purdue’s top honors in the fourth-annual competition, resulted in prizes from sponsors ANSYS, the Lapp Group, Keysight technologies, Maxxon Motors, Schneider Electric, Ace Controls, Tektronix, Texas Instruments and Altech Corp.

The goal of the program is to highlight universities that are highly active in a number of engineering communities including design competitions, hackathons, robotics, research, and incubators.