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The Canadian Engineering Conference is an annual event where the best engineering students from all over Canada get together to attend a few seminars and tours, and put their talents and projects up for judging in various categories. CEC is held at a different location each year, so the setting is always fresh and new, and the participating students have a great time.

CEC 02

Held at L'Universite Laval in Quebec City, CEC 2002 was festive and extremely well organised. Representing the best from each region, the calibre of projects and participants was top-notch. The design categories were filled with great projects, from all disciplines of Engineering. The debate competition was entertaining as always, characterised by quick wit and convincing delivery. Senior team design, a new event this year, drew guest entries from Europe as well as the US; the task was to design and build a amphibious vehicle to safely transport a figurine. Most importantly, everyone had a great time meeting quality students from across the country.

Represented by a congregation of only two, SFU still managed to claim a 3rd place finish in Corporate Design. More on the event can be found on the CFES hosted website, http://www.cec.cfes.ca/

CEC 99

The Canadian Engineering Competition (Compétition Canadienne d'Ingénierie) was hosted by l'École Polytechnique of Montréal in early March. All five of SFU's representatives in the regional competition (Mark Boere, William England, Natisha Joshi, and Scott Logie in Extemporaneous Debate; Josh Joshi in Entrepreneurial Design) advanced to the Canadian national competition in their respective categories. The national competition was sponsored by CAE Electronics Ltd.

Natisha Joshi and Mark Boere qualified for the semifinals in the Debate category where they faced tough opposition from DalTech of Nova Scotia and finished fourth overall. Scott Logie and William England advanced to the finals and defeated the host team from l'École Polytechnique to take home first prize. Josh Joshi's exceptional presentation skills and innovative design vaulted his BrakeSense project into second place in the Entrepreneurial Design competition.

This competition was an outstanding showing for Simon Fraser University engineering, and the success of these five students should inspire other SFU students to take their creative project designs and communication skills to future competitions.

CEC 98

The Canadian Engineering Competition for 1998 was hosted by Carelton University in Ottawa. Representing SFU at this national showcase for engineering students were:

• Mark Boere - Corporate Design
  
• Cecil Lau, Sean Puttergill - Entrepreneurial Design
  
• William England, Scott Logie - Extemporaneous Debate
  
• Gigi Kwei - Editorial Communications
  

The competition was held in one of the main ballrooms at the conference facility at Rideau Center in downtown Ottawa, which turned out to be a nice venue for the conference, allowing all the competitors to enjoy the presentations of the attendees in other categories. The Simon Fraser contingent returned home with great experience, but no prizes for their efforts on this occasion. Nonetheless, the fact that Simon Fraser University was able to send as many representatives as this is a testament to the quality of students that emerge from her hallowed concrete.

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