The Québec Engineering Competition (QEC) is an annual event that challenges nearly 240 students from all of Québec's engineering schools and faculties. Headed by the Québec Confederation for Engineering Student Outreach (QCESO), the QEC aims to boost the visibility of future engineers' knowledge and skills through a range of challenges held over a four-day period.                                                     
The Polytechnique finalists

Oratory debates: 2nd place
Adam Samson and Farell Rocher
A number of students entered the oratory debate competition, including two representatives from PolyDébat. Adam Samson, aerospace engineering student, and Farell Rocher, mechanical engineering student, made it to the oral debate finals. The McGill University team won.

Innovative design: 2nd place
PolyProject 
In the short term, Hooke Tensio, the robot entirely designed by PolyProject (below: Christopher Rabbat, Étienne Pierre-Doray, Étienne Desrosiers and Jonathan Chevalier), intends to be the server of choice at your events. Equipped with an anthropomorphic robotic arm (which resembles the human form), a tray and a mobile platform, Hooke Tensio is able to fetch and serve drinks. The robot has all the degrees of motion of the human hand, which makes its control simple and intuitive. Ultimately, the project's objective is to democratize robotics. The robotic arm linked to the movement-capture system will make it easy and intuitive to learn the various robotic routines.

Scientific communication: 2nd place
Camille Hamelin and Sophie Dagenais
The team finished in second place in the scientific communication category for its presentation on the topic of shale gas.

These Polytechnique teams qualified for the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC), which takes place in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, from March 5 to 8.

Congratulations!

See also:

PolyDébat (in French only)
PolyProject (in French only)
Québec Engineering Competition 2015
Canadian Engineering Competition 2015

Photo: Voltaic and PolyProject