Saluting student success

125th Anniversary Awards winners: Student individuals and groups

It may appear that the lifelong spirit of comradery and the leading reputation for excellence among Queen’s engineers happens organically. In truth, those enviable attributes spring only from the

Individuals:

Christian Baldwin Sc’19 Connor Blandford Sc’19 Carson Cook Sc’19 Matthew Gaiser Sc’19 Malek Karaim MSc’13, PhD candidate Sydney Robinson Sc’19 Emily Wiersma Sc’19 Last year marked a special edition of the Engineering Society’s Queen’s Engineering Competition (QEC), as it celebrated the 125th anniversary of engineering education and mining engineering education at Queen’s.

To mark the anniversary milestone, QEC winners were awarded the E.B. Wilson Memorial Cup to display in their respective engineering discipline building for the year. Winners also had their names engraved on the Bauer Ring, displayed permanently in the foyer of Goodwin Hall, the home of the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining.

Axel Ouillet, Gavin McClelland, Pascal Girard, and Luke Beelen won top place in the senior design category. Axel Ouillet, Gavin McClelland, and Pascal Girard won in the communication and debate category. Paula Petkovic, Amanda Fawley, and Zane Maklin won in the innovation/ reengineering category. Angus McInnes, Jacob Johnston, Will Palmer, and Helen Zhang won in the consulting category. Chas Meadows, Connor Chappell, Matt Julseth, and Justin Bonal won in the junior design category. And Joseph Grosso, Benjamin Beggs, and Kyle Singer won in the programming category. combined efforts of those who invest their personal time and energies to the benefit of fellow students and to wider communities. Despite the rigours of a demanding course of study, these engineering students have distinguished themselves early as community builders and ambassadors of reputation. To the few listed here, and to all those students who give back: thank you for engineering a better world.

Student groups: Engineering Society Executive:

Carson Cook, President; Emily Wiersma, VP Student Affairs; Behshid Behrouzi, VP Operations

Knights of the Purple Order:

Tristan Brunet, Matt Boulby, Max Lindley-Peart, Leah Vignale, Jordan Pernari, Emily Wiersma, Jamil Pirani

Queen’s Engineering Competition: Connor Blandford, Mukund Mauji — Co-chairs Angus McInnes, Helen Zhang, Jacob Johnston, Will Palmer — Consulting Winners

New honours for Queen’s Engineering Competition winners

Gavin McClelland, Luke Beelen, Pascal Girard, Axel Ouillet — Senior Design Winners Justin Bonal, Matthew Julseth, Connor Chappell, and Chas Meadows of the Queen’s Engineering Competition team gather for a photo after earning first place in thejunior design category of the Ontario Engineering Competition at McMaster University in January.

Eleven Queen’s teams advanced from the QEC to the Ontario Engineering Competition at McMaster University in January. Justin Bonal, Matthew Julseth, Connor Chappell, and Chas Meadows earned first place in the junior design category. Melissa Young and Felix LeClair earned second place in the debate category. Leigh Dederer and David Hoskin earned an honourable mention award for technical excellence in communications.

Three Queen’s teams advanced to the Canadian Engineering Competition at the University of Waterloo in March. Melissa Young and Felix LeClair earned seventh place in the debate category.