Two UBC engineering students—Will McClary and Fraser Macdonald from the Integrated Engineering program—placed first in the debate at the Western Engineering Conference held this past weekend in Saskatoon. They will be advancing to the 2011 Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC), March 10-13 at McGill University in Montreal. The impromptu debate competition challenges students to argue a topic from a given viewpoint, which is disclosed just prior to the event. Each team is composed of two members who are expected to present a structured proposition or defence of the assigned issue.
UBC engineers Lin Watt, Madeleine Schaefer, Hans Seidemann and Shane Beaton placed third in the Consulting Engineering category in which teams of four are given four to six hours to devise an innovative solution to a real-world problem prescribed by a hypothetical client. Each team is expected to assess the economic and social aspects of the problem and present a proposal to the client.
Engineering students Gordon Ross, Eric Baikie, Ska-Hiish Manuel and Devyn Farr from UBC’s Okanagan campus finished third in Senior Design, and Kavish Bujun, Aurelien Schilles, Sanjesh Mudallar, Andrew Boitchenko received honourable mention in Consulting.
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