Students bring home top awards in national contest

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Demonstrating their impressive engineering design and debating skills, Waterloo Engineering students won the most first-place awards of any school participating in this year’s Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC).

Undergraduate teams captured three top prizes and one third-place finish in the remote competition hosted by the University of New Brunswick this month.

Simona Rocco, a biomedical engineering student and part of the Innovative Design winning team, says earning an award is a testament to the strong engineering and design skills members have learned at Waterloo.

 “It is also a reflection of how well our education has enabled us to tackle real-world problems with impactful engineering solutions to effect positive change,” says Rocco, whose team also won the WR Petrie Engineering Design Award.

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