Introduction
The Quebec Engineering Competition brings the 200 best engineering students, from 12 faculties of the province together from January 19th to January 22nd, 2006. They will put to work their talent and innovation in six categories: Senior Design, Junior Design, Consulting, Debate, Corporate Design and Scientific Communication.
In hosting this multi-faceted event the McGill QEC 2006 organizing committee will strive to expose engineering's bright future to the general public. It is our goal to showcase Quebec's most promising students in some of Montreal's busiest public spaces.
McGill is proud to host the competition in 2006. The wonderful campus, along with the booming life of downtown Montreal will give the participants a unique experience they will not forget.
Tasks received by competitors in different categories will be posted here:
Senior Design: English French
Team Design: English French
Consulting: French and English
Current date and time: Wednesday May 16, 2012, 5:25 pm
Winners of the QEC 2006!
Communications
| 1st palce | David Rancourt and Charles Vidal | U. de Sherbrooke |
| 2nd place | Bernard Goupil and Christian Alimanescu | ETS |
| 3rd place | Adeline Fleury and Fabienne Dufour | Polytechnique |
Innovative Design
| 1st palce | Jonathan Boily and Gabriel Forget | UQAC |
| 2nd place | Alexandre Bisson, Francis Gauthier-Fredette, David Therriault and Jean-Francois Fortier | U. de Sherbrooke |
| 3rd place | Francois Légaré and Eric Fortin | ETS |
Debate
| 1st palce | Pascal Marchi and Fabrice Fotso | Polytechnique |
| 2nd place | David Cataford and Karl-Alexandre Jahjah | Laval |
| 3rd place | Simon Poissant and Emilie Comeau | U. de Sherbrooke |
Consulting Engineering
| 1st palce | Jonathan Arpin, Simon Lacasse, Benjamin Desmarais and Anotine Lefaivre | Polytechnique |
| 2nd place | Samuel Lemieux, Eric Simard, Sebastien Guérard and Mathieu Girard | UQAC |
| 3rd place | Joe Lumia, Yasser Salmi, Joe Farah and Nadir Jabur | McGill |
Junior Design
| 1st palce | Alexandre Cooper, Emmanuel St-Aubin, Jonathan Daniel-Rivest and Frederic Cyr | Polytechnique |
| 2nd place | Paul Cuciureanu, Junyan Boon, Kareen Amin and Julian Konomi | McGill |
| 3rd place | Artur Wozniak, Michaël Lapointe, Pierre-Paul Paquin and Alexandre Villeneuve | Polytechnique |
Senior Design
| 1st palce | Simon Delisle, Charles Lavallée, Marc Étienne Binette and Félix-Antoine Hirbour | ITR |
| 2nd place | Andy Woo, Kevin Barrest, Fernando Sevillin and Brian Yung | McGill |
| 3rd place | Emmanuel Racine, Bertrand Lowe, Joel Paquet and Benoit Castonguay | Abitibi |
What to Expect
For spectators, the competitions will be interesting and exciting. On Saturday the 21st, participants will showcase the solutions they have created for the general public at the Science Centre all day from 8:30 - 17:30. There will be five exhibitions.
- Junior Design Competition (8:30 - 12:30, Passerelle)As teams of four, participants will have designed and built a prototype during a six hour building session the day before the competition to complete a task as outlined to them minutes before the starting time. At the end of the period, the prototypes will have been impounded until competition day. The competition will take place in a large public area of the Science Centre. Signs explaining the competition tasks will make it easier for the public to understand what is going on. The competitors and their prototype will be projected onto a screen so that everybody can easily see what is happening.
- Senior Design Competition (13:00 - 17:00, Passerelle)This competition is similar to the Junior competition, except the competition task will be considerably more difficult and the teams will have had 17 hours to design and build their prototype. The task will be well explained to the public during the competition.
- Consulting Engineering Competition (8:30 - 17:30, Presidents Lounge)Teams of four are given four hours to find a solution to a given problem the day before the competition. The problem is outlined to them minutes before the period starts. They are to submit a written report, a visual presentation and any supporting documents (calculations, drawings etc...) at the end of the period. On the competition day, the teams must present their solution to a panel of experts who will determine which presentation was the best.
- Innovative Design Presentation (9:30 - 16:30, 2nd Floor Main Corridor)In this category, competitors present a product, service or process that they have conceived that can be commercialized and sold and that is not currently available. These projects are usually ones conceived during a course or school project. Teams will present their project by explaining it to the public at their kiosks.
- Debate (10:00 - 13:00 (semi-finals) and 15:30 - 14:30 (finals), Workshop 2)Participants are to apply analytical skills to present a well reasoned viewpoint with a minimum amount of preparation. The purpose of the event is to evaluate the ability of the competitors to convey ideas and formulate arguments. The event is not intended to evaluate the competitor's knowledge of parliamentary procedure or understanding of formal debate rules. Hence, the rules normally utilized in debating competitions have been modified and relaxed to allow students without formal debating experience to participate.
About the Competition
The annual Quebec Engineering Competition is now in its 22nd year. QEC continues to be the most important competition for engineering students in Quebec. Each year a different University hosts the competition that brings students together to select the winning teams that will represent Quebec in the Canadian Engineering Competition. It is the first time in over 10 years that McGill is serving as host.
QEC continues to allow students to demonstrate their talent, innovation and engineering savvy to their peers, potential employers and the general public. The competition exposes engineering¿s brightest in six different categories: Innovative Design, Engineering Communications, Senior Design, Junior Design, Consulting Engineering, and Debate. After the competition, students will take with them a new appreciation for the different aspects of the engineering world and a new understanding of a hands on approach.
Directions
For information on how to get to the Science Centre go here.
Information about the Science Centre
Visit www.centredessciencesdemontreal.com.