Five Waterloo Engineering teams placed either first or second in this year’s Ontario Engineering Competition and will advance to the Canadian Engineering Competition to be held March 8 to 11. Dhananja Jayalath, Neil Olij, Chris Wiebe and Ryan Mann, all fourth-year electrical engineering students, took top spot in OEC’s Innovative Design contest with their Muscle Activation Detection Suit entry. In addition, team members also took home the Technical Excellence award presented to the team displaying the greatest consideration and attention to technical aspects of design.
Second place in the Innovative Design contest went to Ilia Baranov, an electrical engineering student and Melvin Ng, a computer engineering student. Kumar Singh, a chemical engineering student, Drupadh Manjunath, an electrical engineering student, and Ayush Kapur and Dhrumhill Parikh, both mechatronics engineering students, won second place in the Junior Design competition. Second place in the Senior Design contest went to Nevin McCallum, an electrical engineering student, and Cody Prodaniuk, Jeff McClure and Maple Leung, all mechanical engineering students. Second spot in the Engineering Communications category went to Erin Matheson, a chemical engineering student for her topic entitled Developing Techniques for Surgical Treatment of Brain Aneurysms. Waterloo Engineering students won over $10,000 in prize money between all competitions.