UOIT Engineering students set the PACE at international competition

For the fourth consecutive year, students from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) have been recognized for excellence at an influential global student engineering competition.

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (FEAS) students Daniel Henning and Liam Ready participated in the Reconfigurable Shared Use Mobility Systems (RSMS) competition at the 2016 Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) Global Forum in Cincinnati, Ohio. The team with UOIT students won first place team in the Customer Insight category.

Opal, the reconfigurable vehicle designed by UOIT students and their PACE partners, was awarded for excellence due to its accurate measurements of market sentiment as well as its creative business plan. Opal is also one of only two teams who captured a first-place award in Cincinnati.

The university collaborated at PACE with students from RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (Wiesbaden, Germany), Howard University (Washington, D.C.), New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, New Mexico) and the University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

The university’s RSMS team was supervised by FEAS members Dr. Atef Mohany, Associate Professor, and Dr. Yuelei Yang, Senior Lecturer.

Team members at PACE RSMS Competition:

• Automotive Engineering
  • Daniel Henning (class of 2016)
• Manufacturing Engineering
  • Peter Botros (class of 2016)
• Mechanical Engineering
  • Dany Awad (class of 2016)
  • Kevin Luu (class of 2016)
  • Liam Ready (class of 2017)
  • Gabriel Rodriguez (class of 2016)

Quotes

“We are thrilled to see our students gain such distinction for their innovative ideas and creativity. We commend the students for their hard work and dedication throughout the different phases of this project. This is not the first time our students receive such recognition for their design projects at an international engineering competition; it is indeed a reflection of the quality of engineering programs at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.”
-Atef Mohany, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

“Collaboration is a key ingredient to the success of an engineering project. We are very excited to see our students gain recognition for their knowledge, passion and dedicated teamwork from the judges as well as their PACE colleagues.”
-Yuelei Yang, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Previous UOIT PACE Global Forum awards:

• Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015: Customer Insight (2^nd); Product Engineering (3^rd)
• Torino, Italy, 2014: Market Research (3^rd)
• Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 2013: Market Research (2^nd); Ready for Production (3^rd)

About PACE

Founded in 1999, PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) has grown to an organization which currently has a total of 65 engineering and design universities from 12 different countries. The University of Ontario, Institute of Technology is one of seven universities in Canada with PACE membership.

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