The 6th Annual ChemE Cube Competition is Underway!
The 6th Annual ChemE Cube Competition powered by RAPID® | ExxonMobil will focus on Direct Air Capture and Regeneration and take place on November 8-9 in Minneapolis, MN at the 2026 AIChE Annual Student Conference. Undergraduate student teams from any university are welcome to participate.
Presenting our 2026 Finalists!
RAPID and ExxonMobil are excited to announce this year’s ChemE Cube finalists competed for the Cube in November. More than 60 teams competed in the virtual qualifying round.
The teams that will advance and participate in the 2026 ChemE Cube Competition are:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Colorado School of Mines
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- James Madison University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Missouri S&T
- North Carolina State University (NCSU)
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Stanford University
- Tec de Monterrey
- Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (UPRM)
- University at Buffalo
- University of British Columbia
- University of California, Irvine (UCI)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
- University of Michigan
- University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- University of South Carolina
- University of Toronto
- Virginia Tech
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Join us on November 8th - 9th to watch the live ChemE Cube competition in Boston, hosted during the Annual Student Conference.
What is ChemE Cube™?
Launched in 2020 by the RAPID Manufacturing Institute®, ChemE Cube is an annual student competition where undergraduate university teams design, build, and demonstrate a 1 cubic foot plant to produce a chemistry defined in the annual problem statement.
Teams compete on cube performance against the other teams and promote their technology through a 1-minute ad, poster, and 20-minute start-up style pitch to a panel of mock investors.
