ASME Region XI Spring Combined Conferences was held in Miami, Florida on April 3-6, 2003. ASME Florida International University (FIU) Student Section organized the conference with the assistance of University of Miami (UM) Student Setion and the ASME Miami Section.

The following 16 teams participated in this year's SDC in Region XI:

• High Roller, University of South Alabama, WINNER: FIRST PLACE
  Jose Pinto, Omar Restrepo, Korhian Teh
  
  
• Bigbee River Rats, Mississippi State University, SECOND PLACE
  Grant Harlow, Clint Parrish
  
  
• TBA, Mississippi State University, THIRD PLACE
  Dustin Sartin, Andrew Buie, Christopher Whitt, Carlo Thomas
  
  
• Little Twister, Florida Atlantic University
  Fabio Faerman, Pedro Gomez, Michael Kelahan
  
  
• The Load Lifter, Florida International University
  Ricardo A. Garcia, Shailer F. Cummings, Miranda Ray
  
  
• Desrokamora, Florida International University
  Jon Dediego, Alex Mora, Agnieszka Sroka
  
  
• EMG-03 , Florida International University
  Gustavo Calderon, Manuel Rivera, Edgar Maselli
  
  
• Mega-Ore Transportation System, Florida International University
  Shusheng Ye, Salim Nasser, Richard Sookhai
  
  
• The Manhattan Project, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Alan Claghorn, Winston R. Hamilton, William A. Casino, Jr., Konrad Rykaczcwski
  
  
• Rice Miner 2003, Tennessee Tech University
  Scott Vanderlan, Sam Snyder, Justin Helton, Jeff Gateley
  
  
• The Rice Mine Road, University of Alabama
  Derrick Helm, Justin Wright
  
  
• Rice Rice Baby, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  Eric Peterson, Nick Wintermantel, Cade Festavan
  
  
• Mittens, University of Central Florida
  James Windhausen, Matt Schambeau, Matt J. Couch, Bryan Wooten
  
  
• Moving Stream, University of Florida
  Raymond Tsang, Carole Miller, Diego Acevedo, Nelson Lerma
  
  
• Ole Miss, University of Mississippi
  Stephen Williams, Rich Crim, Robert Oakley
  
  
• No Name, University of South Florida
  Jason Klar, Renato Nojadera, Michael Berlin
  

Opening remarks by K. R. Rao, Vice President, ASME Region XI.

SDC head judge Michael Colletti sets the ground rules before teams compete.

A group of judges and conference staff who helped run the competition and score team performances.