The StFX student engineering team of Megan Fudge and Graeme Larsen placed first at the Atlantic Engineering Competition held in St. John's, NL Jan. 26-28 and will represent the Atlantic region at the Canadian Engineering Competition at Ryerson University on March 8-11.
The second year engineering students topped the Re-engineering category of the competition, hosted by the engineering department and students of Memorial University. This year's theme was "Sustaining Today, Building Tomorrow."
In all, six StFX engineering students attended the competition, with the help of a gracious donation from engineer and StFX alumnus August Wilkins, who in recognition of his proud association with StFX, has established the $2,500 August Wilkins Atlantic Engineering Competition Fund, which will fund costs associated with a StFX team participating in this annual competition. Mr. Wilkins has also funded the $2,500 August Wilkins Scholarship in Engineering to support full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the StFX engineering program.
The four-person team of second year students Emma Fudge and Ross Walker and first year students David Worth and Cameron deWinter competed in the Consulting category.
Emma Fudge, president of the StFX Engineering Society and a member of the StFX Consulting team that placed second at last year's Canadian competition, says much planning and coordination were involved in the weeks leading up to the competition, where teams from universities across Atlantic Canada are exposed to real life engineering problems and meet top students from other schools.
"But it paid off and I am proud of the hard work that our competitors put into the competition. It was a challenging weekend, but I think I speak for all of us when I say that I enjoyed it immensely and am very grateful to have had the opportunity to represent StFX at the competition."
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