[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/eng-team-CEC-winners.jpg” caption=”Engineering students Nilesh Patel, Corey Centen, Marka Jansen, Paul Okrutny, Lauren Davies and Patrick Wilson placed second at the Canadian Engineering Competition. Photo by Evan Stevens.”]Both teams representing McMaster at the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) in Saskatoon last weekend finished in second place. Corey Centen and Nilesh Patel, inventors of the CPR Glove, and fourth-year electrical and biomedical engineering students, earned silver in the Innovative Design category.

Lauren Davies (chemical and bioengineering), Marka Jansen (chemical and bioengineering), Paul Okrutny (materials science and engineering), and Patrick Wilson (engineering physics) took home silver in the Consulting Engineering category.

Each team competed against seven other Canadian universities in their category. The competition consists of six categories: Innovative Design, Consulting Engineering, Team Design, Senior Design, Debate and Communication.

The University of Victoria placed first in the Innovative Design category with AUVic, a fourth-generation autonomous underwater vehicle. The University of Saskatchewan took third with performance improvements to a new type of electrical generator.

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal won first in the Consulting Engineering category and the University of Alberta took third. Teams were challenged to develop a biomass energy source that would meet the electrical needs of a small town. They were marked on the quality of their engineering solution and ability to promote it to potential clients.

The CPR Glove developed by Patel and Centen generated a great deal of interest at the competition. The invention is designed to guide people in applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and improving historically low survival rates for those in cardiac arrest. The pair is looking to enter the CPR Glove in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) student design competition.

Twenty-one Canadian universities were represented at the competition. Teams qualify for the CEC by first winning their university engineering competition and then placing first or second in one of the six categories at regional competitions held in the West, Ontario, Quebec and Eastern Canada.