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Laurentian Bharti School of Engineering students triumph again

Laurentian Bharti School of Engineering students triumph again

Senior teams head to Nationals after winning at Ontario Engineering Competition

FEBRUARY 1, 2016 – Laurentian University’s Bharti School of Engineering continued its dominance at the Ontario Engineering Competition, with its teams claiming top spot in two categories this weekend at the University of Waterloo. Laurentian students won first place in both the Senior Design category and the Consulting category at the province-wide competition.  The Bharti School’s winning teams will now advance to the Canadian Engineering Competition hosted by McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, March 3-6, 2016.

 

“This is another historic moment for Laurentian University and for the Bharti School of Engineering,” said University President and Vice-Chancellor Dominic Giroux.  “We are thrilled for these students and the experience and hands-on training they are gaining.  We will all be cheering them on,” he added.

 

Laurentian’s Senior Design team is made up of third-year Mechanical Engineering students; Colin Roos, Stephane Labine, Matt Bennison and Aidan Simpson.  This same team won the Junior Design competition at the 2015 OEC and also won the 2015 Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC).  

 

Laurentian students also won the Consulting category of the OEC and they will represent Ontario at the Canadian Engineering Competition.  The team consisted of fourth-year Chemical Engineering students; Frederique Belanger, Jasmina Omri, Joseph Fyfe and Tyler Provencal.

 

“This is a tremendous testament to our engineering programs at Laurentian,” said Dr. Ramesh Subramanian, Director, Bharti School of Engineering.  “Our Senior Design team defended its title at OEC in a very tough field, and, for the first time, Laurentian competed in the Consulting category and won.  Our students are exceptionally talented and I couldn’t be more proud,” he said.

 

Before the 2016 CEC in Montreal, Laurentian’s Mining Engineering students will be competing at the Canadian Mining Games at UBC-Vancouver, February 18-21.

 

Students from Laurentian’s Bharti School of Engineering have distinguished themselves in numerous provincial, national and international competitions.  They have won the Canadian Mining Games more often than any other university in Canada.  In 2011, Laurentian’s team won the NASA Lunabotics competition with their design for a remote lunar-mining module. 

 

For more information about the Ontario Engineering Competition visit oec2016.io and 

cec2016.com to learn more about the Canadian Engineering Competition.

Laurentian Engineering students headed to Nationals

Laurentian Engineering students headed to Nationals

Bharti School’s Junior, Senior teams win at Ontario Engineering Competition

February 25, 2015 - Laurentian University’s Bharti School of Engineering will send two teams to the 2015 Canadian Engineering Competition in St. John’s, Newfoundland, next month, after strong showings by both the Junior and Senior teams at the Ontario Engineering Competiton. Results of the OEC were announced at an awards banquet at Ryerson University earlier this month.

Laurentian’s juniors, who are all first- and second-year engineering students, placed first in the OEC Junior Design category with a victory over competitors from Royal Military College and Queen’s University. Laurentian’s senior team, comprised of third- and fourth-year students, finished a close second to University of Guelph, with the University of Waterloo placing third.
 

“It’s really a tremendous showing for our students and we are all very proud of them,” said Dr. Ramesh Subramanian, Director, Bharti School of Engineering. “This is the first time that both our seniors and juniors have finished in the top three at the same OEC event, and the students are really pumped about taking their skills to the national competition next month,” he said.
 

Students from Laurentian’s Bharti School of Engineering have distinguished themselves in numerous provincial, national and international competitions. They have won the Canadian Mining Games more often than any other university in Canada. In 2011, Laurentian’s team won the NASA Lunabotics competition with their design for a remote lunar-mining module.
 

“This is another proud moment for Laurentian University and for the Bharti School of Engineering,” said University President and Vice-Chancellor Dominic Giroux. “These students are proving that hands-on training, excellent faculty support and gritty determination are ingredients in engineering success. We will all be cheering them on,” he added.
 

An Open House event will be held on Thursday, February 26th from 1:30-2:30 pm in the Brenda Wallace Reading Room, where members of the University community, the media and the public can meet the members of both Junior and the Senior teams, and hear about their experiences at the OEC competition.
 

The Canadian Engineering Competition will be hosted by Memorial University in St. John’s, March 5-8, 2015.

For more information about the Ontario Engineering Competition visit www.oec2015.ca. Visit www.2015cec.ca to learn more about the 2015 Canadian Engineering Competition