Waterloo management engineering students won a number of awards, including the overall conference grand prize trophy, at the Institute of Industrial Engineers National Student Conference held January 19-21 in Halifax. The Golden I trophy was awarded based on the points the students earned for winning individual and team competitions, contributing a school video and cheer, and for participating in various conference events. Fourth-year student Amanda Leduc won first prize in the Technical Paper competition and Christopher Smellie, also in fourth year, came second in the same competition for a paper he co-authored with management engineering students Alex Dueck and Michael Quinlan. The team of Yousif Al-Khder, Molly Beckel, Helen Jiang, and Pranav Sampat won second prize in the Theoretical Competition-a three-hour exam of academic knowledge related to industrial engineering. Other management engineering students who participated include Harleen Ahuja, Anirudh Cavale, Karen Choi, Tim Hong, Hobyung Lee, Sally Lee, Curtiss Luong, Megan Maguire and Jennifer Yip. This is the first time Waterloo Engineering students have taken part in the conference.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012