For the first time, UBC’s Okanagan campus entered a team of engineering students in the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race in Calgary. They won best new team, second-best performing toboggan and placed fifth overall out of 19 entries.
Sixteen engineers from various disciplines built a toboggan which required concrete running surfaces, a maximum weight of 300 pounds, a braking and steering system and the capacity to carry five people.
UBC tobogganer Brian Shewchuk says the team completed all three runs – which is quite a feat. “Most teams only did two runs. Some didn’t even make it down the hill,” says Shewchuk, who was in charge of design and fabrication.
The competition is judged by industry and academic professionals and is based on design and presentation of the concrete and reinforcement, superstructure, braking and steering as well as race-day performance.
For more information, visit: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2012/02/15/great-sled-performance-from-ubcs-okanagan-campus-engineers/
