Wednesday, September 10, 2014
A
paper
written
by
Andrew
Andrade,
a
second-year
mechatronics engineering
student,
took
top
prize
in
the
undergraduate
category
and
third-place
honours
in
the
combined
undergraduate/master's
student
division
at
the
2014
Society
of
Petroleum
Canadian
Regional
Student
Paper
Contest.
The
event
was
held
at
the
end
of
August
at
Memorial
University
in
Newfoundland.
Andrade,
the
only
second-year
student
presenting
independent
research,
won
for
his
paper
entitled Multifaceted
Approach
to
Oil
Field
Segment
Analysis
Using
Artificial
Intelligence.The
judges
were
engineers
and
researchers
from
industry
along
with
Memorial
University
researcher
professors.
Andrade is
the
co-founder
of
PetroPredict,
a
startup
that
uses
data
analytics
to
find
potential
oil
and
gas
leaks
that
may
go
undetected
for
years. Last
spring
the
company
won
a
pair
of
top
awards
at
the
Ontario
Centres
of
Excellence
Discovery
Conference,
including
the
inaugural
David
McFadden
Energy
Entrepreneur Challenge and
the
Elevator
Pitch
competition.
It
has
also
captured
several
major
awards
from
Velocity,
the
University
of
Waterloo's
startup
incubator.