The results are in for the UBC Engineering Competition which happened this past Saturday, Nov. 13.

A special thank you to all organizers, volunteers, judges and participants who made the Competition such a success. Check back for pictures of the competitions and winners.

(* advancing to the Western Engineering Competition)

Jr. Design

1st Place *

Manjot Mangat    FIZZ 2,  Daljit Bagri    FIZZ 2,  Brian Sieu ECE 2,  Lyle “Meister” Gabo FIZZ 2

Min Hian Tee MECH 2,    Zhen Liang Seow  ECE 2,  Ho Ming Tay ECE 2,   Denise Wong MECH 2

3rd Place

Ben Kernan  MTRL 2, Ian Campbell  ECE 2, Adrian McNeill FIZZ 2, Stephanie Mah ECE 2

Engineering Communications

1st Place *

Erika Lewynsky GEOROX 4

2nd Place *

Sjoekie Barber ENVE 4

3rd Place

John Bolduc IGEN 4

Innovative Design

1st Place *

Tom Curran MECH 3, Connor Schellenberg MECH 3, Derry Lappin MECH 3,  James Pettit MECH 3

Impromptu Debate

1st Place *

Amanda Li MECH 4, Sean Heisler IGEN 3

2nd Place *

Will McClary IGEN 4, Fraser MacDonald IGEN 4

Consulting Engineering

1st Place *

Madeleine Schaefer ECE 3, Lin Watt CHBE 4, Shane Beaton CIVL 4, Hans Seidemann IGEN 2

2nd Place

Sara Moayedinia MTRL 4, Naveed Mithani  MTRL 4, Zheng Li MTRL 4, Z Zhou MTRL 4

3rd Place

Julian Ritchie CHBE 4, Justin Stevens MINE 4

Senior Design

1st Place *

Ian Wan  MECH 3, Richard Ang MECH 3, Henry Poon MECH 3, James Formby MECH 3

2nd Place

Alim Jiwa MECH4, Kevin Baillie MECH 4, Lok Tin Lam MECH 4, Howard Hu MECH 4

3rd Place

Derek Hui ECE 4, Anthony Yuen ECE 4, Willy Ko ECE 4, Scott Park ECE 4

Did you submit an application to the Professional Activities Fund (PAF) this year?  Do you have feedback on the process or structure of PAF?  We want to hear your suggestions!  Your EUS and UBC Engineering will be co-hosting a session to hear your concerns.

>> Click here to visit the PAF website

The UBC Engineering Competition is now accepting application forms!  Basically the qualification round to get into the Western Engineering Competition, we will be holding all 6 WEC events at UBC within the coming weeks!  For details on each event, and how to apply, click here.

The Rowbots (from left to right): Brad Burt, Howard Hu, Matthew Perttula, Andrew Nobles, Alim Jiwa, Kevin Lowe, Kevin Baillie, Andrew Porritt, Jared Cunnington

Day of the longboat; a 2 day festival situated at the Jericho Sailing Centre, in which over 270 teams participated in a 2 km canoe race of epic proportions.  A competition hosted by UBC REC, mechanical engineering team RowBots came in 1^st in the divisional and second campus wide. (more…)

Want to find out more about the robotic engineering student teams?

Come out to the Thunderbird Robotics open house to check out the Snowbots’ robot racers, TREAD’s moon excavators and the Thunderbots’ soccer playing robots.  There will be demos, team members and FREE FOOD!

Date: Tuesday, September 29th
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Location: Kaiser 2020/230

The Engineering Thunderbots team is back from Graz, Austria after competing in the 2009 Robocup Competition. The world-renowned event attracted thousands of participants from over 40 different countries, as well as lots of talent.  The goal?  To compete in the small sized league, where they had autonomous robots (pictured above) playing soccer against robots created by other schools! (more…)