In order to select students to represent University of Waterloo at the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) 2011 from the ‘A’ stream, the Waterloo Engineering Competition (WEC) was organized, on a similar pattern as the previous term. WEC took place on November 5th and 6th in three categories: Senior Design, Junior Design and Consulting Engineering.
The teams were given their respective problems on the evening of November 5th and allotted time to build their solutions. The students then demonstrated their solution to a panel of judges on the morning of November 6th.
The Senior Design problem involved designing a vehicle that would pick up load from various locations and then climb up a ramp and force its way through a set of freely hanging doors. Unfortunately, none of the teams’ vehicles was able to complete the challenge.
A whooping 22 teams took part in the Junior Design competition. The objective of the Junior Design problem was to design a projectile launch that was capable of targeting four pre-determined distances. Of those, one team was able to successfully hit all the four targets and was thus declared as the unparalleled winner of the competition.
The Consulting Engineering problem was a based on a local topic: review of the current public transportation system and suggestion of an action plan to improve the transportation services giving due consideration of the LRT system to be implemented later.
On behalf of the WEC Organizing Committee, I thank and congratulate the participants on their efforts. I hope it was a learning experience for everyone. I also appreciate the judges’ efforts: Professor Steve Lambert, Professor Bill Bishop, Mr. Oscar Nespoli, Mr. Chris Rennick, Mr. David Effa, Mr. Chris Togeretz, and Ms. Fiona Yiu. A big thank you goes to all the directors involved in putting this show together: Aareet Shermon, Thanenjayen Rangan, Tahamid Kabir, Jeffrey Chen, Freeman Kam, and Elsa Thomas.
Winners:
Consulting 1st place
Kevin Ling
Timothy Bandura
Adam Klett
Marc Tan
Consulting 2nd place
Amir Taleghani
Matthew Casswell
Fahim Hamidi
Senior 1st place
Maple Leung
Cody Prodanuik
Nevin McCallum
Jeff McClure
Senior 2nd place
Ann Sychterz
Tim Schnarr
Kristine Campbell
Milena Beloia Cheres
Junior 1st place
Marc-André Simard
Kornel Niedziela
Adam Thagard
Shari King
Junior 2nd place
Lisa Kogan
Leon Rabinovich
Mark Khaitman
Frank Zhao
Technical Speaking
1st – Erin Matheson
2nd – Winnie Tse
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