Three UPEI Engineering Teams to Compete at Nationals

After winning the Nationals last year for junior design in engineering, UPEI students Caleb Curtis, Gabriel Landry, Daniel Palmer and Hannah Sutherland will get the chance to do it again. They took first place in junior design at the Atlantic Engineering competition held this past weekend and will be heading off to Saskatoon for the Canadian Engineering Competition, March 8-11. The team was given a random engineering challenge and given a day to come up with a solution.

A UPEI team also placed second in the junior design category and will also be heading to Nationals. A third team in the consulting division tied for first place. This team of second- and third-year students tied with a team of fifth- year students from another university. Students were given a week to develop a consulting report on alternative energy uses for a

multi-use centre in Edmundston, New Brunswick.

This is the first time that three teams from UPEI will head to the national competition.