Quebec Engineering Competition (QEC) 2011
Congratulations to all BREE students who took part in the Quebec
Engineering Competition (QEC) held January 27 to 29, 2011. All
engineering faculties across Quebec participate in this annual
competition.
Please join me in congratulating the following BREE students who
have won the 3rd place in the Senior Design Category.
Paul Deram
Justin Dougherty
Shefaza Esmail
Jonathan Martel-Gagnon
Their task was to program an autonomous robot that followed a line,
launched a ball, hit a bell and traversed rough terrain. Points
were awarded for the fastest robot and for the robot that
accomplished most of the said tasks. The team had 11 hours to work
on the robot and in that time the Senior Design Team agreed to not
program the robot (due to insufficient software and hardware
knowledge) and make a robot that worked mechanically using a motor
and trigger mechanisms for the ball launch and the bell hit.
Macdonald Campus' robot was the talk of the town for the weekend
(because all other teams did program their robot)...and the team
brought home an award!
The Department of Bioresource Engineering is very proud of you.