Team Named for Ontario Engineering Competition

January 21, 2009

After some grueling competition this past Saturday, the team that will represent the Faculty and McMaster at the 2009 Ontario Engineering Competition was determined.

The winners of the six competition categories were:

Junior Team Design:
Colin Murphy, Dan Bujak, Michael Conguisi, David Marczak

Senior Team Design:
Alan Sawula, Bahy Mehany, Amer El-Kalache, Chris Chapman

Consulting Engineering:
Max Gomes, Chandan Pujapanda, Don Vo, Nanxi Zha

Debate:
CJ Smith and Justin Sma

Entrepreneurial Design:
Lindsey Kettel and Cory Minkhorst

Engineering Communications: Deborah Lee

Lindsey Kettel and Cory Minkhorst won the entrepreneurial design competition with a bicycle trailer that can fold up and be stored on the body of the bicycle itself.

The Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) is an annual event that challenges university engineering students from across the province to a series of competitions. More than 200 competitors from 14 universities participate.  This year’s event is being hosted at the University of Guelph from February 6 – 8.

A career and graduate studies fair is being held in conjunction with the competition.  Some 23 sponsoring companies and 10 universities will be represented.  Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of the number one best-selling book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, is this year’s keynote speaker.

Winners of the OEC go on to compete at the 25th annual Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC), which will be held from March 5 to 8 at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.  Entrants compete for prestige and prize money.

CEC is a division of the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES), an association of approximately 55,000 Canadian undergraduate students.

The McMaster Engineering Competition is organized annually by the McMaster Engineering Society.