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This year's Annual Associated University Open House and Design Competition was held on Tuesday March 3, 2015

The Faculty of Engineering would like to thank all students for attending and making the AU Open House a success. The purpose of the event is to introduce first year students to the engineering disciplines offered at Sexon Campus. The event had a great turn out, there were 435 first year engineering students in attendance from seven Universities in Nova Scotia and PEI.

Of the eight programs available, there were six sets of tours available to students and hundreds took advantage of the opportunity.

2015 Associated University Open House Design Competition

Students also enjoyed The Design Project held during the AU Open House. Students were tasked with building a functioning catapult out of popsicle sticks, a roll of duct take and four elastic bands. The teams had from 3 - 5:15pm to dedicate to the design and build time, and from 5:15 - 6:15 for the distance and accuracy trials.

The winning teams were as follows:

Winning team “Triforce” (pictured below) From Dalhousie: John Jackson, Linden Smith, Karl, Krista Tuerk, Dan Campbell, Yousef Alami, Patrick Sutow, Brian Song.  Not pictured: from Acadia Catherine Theriault.

First place prize was an “Apple TV” for all team members.

Second Place “Team Six”  (no photo): From Dalhousie: Kyle Brisebois, Ben McClintock, Charles Tremblay, Erin Welsh, Cali Kehoe, Connell Steers.  From CBU: Alex MacLean. From UPEI: Ray Gan, Samuel Nnam

Third Place “Team Fireball” (no photo): from Dalhousie: Paul Duchesne, April Ferris, Michelle Combe, Kate Melanson, Steven  Evasuk, Brandon Fillmore, Wang Rufeng. From Acadia: Brian Tan. From StFX: Justin Graham.

Special thanks to:

Engineers Nova Scotia for providing door prizes and runner up prizes in the Design Competition.

The entire student volunteers who made the day a tremendous success and to DUES for helping to recruit and organize the volunteers.

Participating Engineering programs, faculty members, staff, and students who worked during the Expo.

Dalhousie Facilities Management for their hard work preparing the gym for the event.