Waterloo Engineering students performed well at this year’s recent Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) at Western University, with three first-place teams moving on to next month's national contest.
Thirteen undergraduate engineering students placed within the top three in nine competitive categories. The first and second-place teams in each category will compete in the Canadian Engineering Competition, to be held at the University of Waterloo in February.
First place in the Senior Design category was won by mechatronics engineering students Melda Kiziltan, Shaheer Rana and Carson Bay.
Jacob Chateauneuf, Benjamin Beazley, Collin Bolt and Alexsa Laddaran, all mechanical engineering students, took first prize in the Innovative Design category.
And in the Re-Engineering category, management engineering students Omkaar Kamath and Omar Atwa finished first.
Third place was awarded to students Ella Uppal and Neil Kaus in Debate, and Anna Liebenberg and Shreshth Mehra in Innovative.
Each year, over 300 engineering students from universities across Ontario compete in OEC, a three-day event. Participating teams must first win their institution’s qualifying competitions to take part in OEC.