Last week, Ryerson’s Engineering Competition hit a record-breaking number of participants, and the tasks took many competitors by surprise. Hundreds of Ryerson engineering students spent their Friday night at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, working to create solutions for unexpected challenges.
The two competitions held at 6 p.m. on Nov.14 were the junior and senior design competitions.
The junior design competition, targeted for first and second-year students, challenged teams to create a car that would go down a ramp with various terrains. The senior design competition for upper-year students asked teams to create a working prototype of a toilet-paper cutting and folding machine.
Find out how the teams did here.
- Ryerson Engineering Competition The registration table for junior and senior design competitions.
- Ryerson Engineering Competition Senior design teams wait for their challenge to be announced.
- Ryerson Engineer Competition Vice-President of Logistics for the REC organizing committee, Kyle Fernandez, delivers materials to teams.
- Junior Design Competition A junior design team measures popsicle sticks for their race car.
- Junior Design Competition Junior design team begins to build their race car.
- Junior Design Competition Junior design team calculates the speed of their race car prototype.
- Junior Design Competition The competition each year features new innovations.
- Junior Design Competition Junior design team draws out the measurements of the the ramp they must use.
- Junior Design Competition A junior design team decides which extra materials they would like to purchase with their set 'budget.'
- Senior Design Competition Student from a senior design team wonders how to create their prototype.
- Senior Design Competition Senior design team student, Geet Sheth, takes a break from making their toilet paper machine.
- Senior Design Competition Some of the materials that were given for the senior design challenge.
- Senior Design Competition A senior design team puts together the power source for their prototype.
- Senior Design Competition Members take on different smaller tasks to combine later.
- Senior Design Competition A senior design team decides how far they want to cut their toilet paper. They were only given a certain amount of supplies.
- Senior Design Competition Vice-President of Logistics of the REC organizing committee, Kyle Fernandez, delivers the complete prototype for judging.
- Senior Design Competition A senior design team presents their prototype to a panel of judges.
- Senior Design Competition A senior design team powers their prototype by connecting it to their laptop USB drive.
- Junior Design Competition Some of the complete race cars submitted for judging.
- Junior Design Competition Race cars must fit a fixed number of weighted balls to drive it down the ramp.
- Junior Design Competition A student from the junior design competition introduces her team's race car.
- Junior Design Competition A junior team tests their race car on the multi-terrain ramp.
- Junior Design Competition Chemical engineering professor, Ginette Turcotte, observes a race car prototype.
- Junior Design Competition A junior team tests their race car on the multi-terrain ramp.
- Junior Design Competition A panel of judges from industry and faculty listen to a junior design presentation.
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Hye-Jee graduated from the Ryerson School of Journalism in 2015.