Congratulations to all of our Skilled Trades and Technology Awards recipients!
Electrical Engineering Technology Awards
Andrew Rohulych Memorial Award
- Kevin Roorda (Electronic Engineering Technology)
Bell MTS Academic Excellence Award
- Sean Chittock (Electronic Engineering Technology)
Bell MTS Academic Excellence Award
- Joshua Aldaba (Electronic Engineering Technology)
CTTAM Scholarship
- Mark Daalderop (Electronic Engineering Technology)
CTTAM Scholarship
- Charles Bryer (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
Integrated Power Services Electrical Technology Award
- Ziteng Wang (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Lee Shirtliffe Memorial Award
- Kelsey Fijal (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
Magellan Aerospace, Winnipeg Scholarship
- Jason Glowacki (Electronic Engineering Technology)
Manitoba Hydro Scholarship
- Ivan Vakhtine (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Milton Matheson Memorial Award
- Lovejot Panesar (Electronic Engineering Technology)
- Yin Liu (Electronic Engineering Technology)
Price Scholarships for Engineering Technology Year One
- Jeremy Paul Zahn (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Morgan Cuell (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Hayden Andres James Duke (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Dain Harrison Karpiak (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Finley McLean (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Andrew Joseph Platt (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Riley John Pritchard (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Jesse Brendon Terry (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Prunpahul Singh Uppal (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Maddison Wolf (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Price Scholarships for Engineering Technology Year Two and Three
- Jack Brennenstuhl (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Megha Bansal (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Kriyank Vijay Bhagat (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Jagwantdeep Kaur Chhina (Electrical Engineering Technology)
- Kevin Roorda (Electronic Engineering Technology)
- Yin Liu (Electronic Engineering Technology
- Chiem Nhut Tien (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
- Aarron Larret (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
- Devin McArthur (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology
- Nam Nguyen (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
- Treyton Blake (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
- Dylan Lintott (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
- Joshua Pomehichuk (Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology)
Roning Group Award
- Adrian Guy Vachon (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Stantec Consulting Ltd. Scholarships
- Manraj Kaur (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Technologies Student Award
- Derrick Tycholis (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Civil Engineering Technology Awards
ACI Scholarship
- Bryce Jenkins (Municipal Engineering Technology)
AECOM Scholarship
- Bryce Jenkins (Municipal Engineering Technology)
- Matthew Snyder (Structural Engineering Technology)
Architectural Technology Achievement Award
- Colin Sobering (Architectural Technology)
- Curtis Fox (Architectural Technology)
Association of Manitoba Land Surveyors Scholarship
- Matthew Everett Roy Salen (Geomatics Technology)
Beach Rocke Engineering Award
- Simon Gabriel (Structural Engineering Technology)
Bird Build Your Future Scholarships
- John Capistrano (Architectural Engineering Technology)
- Patrick Galman (Construction Management)
Bird Build Your Future Alumni Scholarship
- Cheryl Baraniuk (Architectural Engineering Technology)
Bockstael Construction (Construction Management Degree Award)
- Richard Arpin (Construction Management)
Bryan I. Dreger Award – Second Year
- Hanwei Chen (Geomatics Technology)
- Jessey Adam Ternowetsky (Geomatics Technology)
Canadian Council of Independent Laboratories (CCIL) Award
- Lam Nguyen (Structural Engineering Technology)
Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS)
- Phil Nixon (Construction Management)
Canadian Public Works Association (CPWA) Civil Engineering Technology Entrance Award
- Joseph Schumacher (Civil Engineering Technology)
Canadian Public Works Association (CPWA) Municipal Engineering Technology Award
- Dilpreet Singh (Municipal Engineering Technology)
CTTAM Scholarship
- Yan Yan (Structural Engineering Technology)
Cibinel Architectural Award for Architectural Engineering Technology
- Brendan Wakeman (Architectural Engineering Technology)
Civil Engineering Technology Scholarship
- Morgan Ranae Murray (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Concord Projects Award
- Belai Zuabi ( Construction Management)
Concrete Manitoba Award
- Keegan Wight (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Construction Management Achievement Award
- Abbie Brook (Construction Management)
Construction Management Advanced Education Award
- Glas Drake (Construction Management) Changed
Construction Management Milestone Award
- Miguel Young (Construction Management)
Dillon Consulting Award
- Bayzhik Royce Audy (Civil Engineering Technology)
Edward S. Smendziuk Memorial Award
- Jason Mangin (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Elizabeth Ptashnik Memorial Award
- Christabelle Jhonalin Munoz (Environmental Engineering Technology)
- Deanna Cutler (Environmental Engineering Technology)
Environmental Engineering Technology Achievement Award
- Amanda Williams (Environmental Engineering Technology)
Environmental and Sustainable Economy Education Award
- Clinton Church (Environmental Engineering Technology)
Ernst Hansch Construction Ltd. Scholarship
- Robert Kutcher (Structural Engineering Technology)
- Ayomide Akinfolarin (Architectural Engineering Technology)
- Andrea Cantor (Architectural Engineering Technology)
- Davarsh Patel (Architectural Engineering Technology)
F. Ross Browne CSC Scholarship
- Antoine Salvano-Leblanc (Architectural Engineering Technology)
Flynn Canada Scholarship
- Patrick Duncan (Architectural Engineering Technology)
- Jett Sinclair (Structural Engineering Technology)
Frank M. Fowler Memorial Scholarship
- Ammar Farooqui (Architectural Engineering Technology)
- Trent Adams (Environmental Engineering Technology)
- Ramandeep Kaur (Municipal Engineering Technology)
- Jason Feheregyhazi (Structural Engineering Technology)
Gary Giesbrecht Memorial Award
- Lynden Dufay (Structural Engineering Technology)
Jim Mandryk Civil Engineering Leadership Award
- Jolene Hancox (Civil Engineering Technology)
Ken Rist Memorial Scholarship
- Abheyjit Singh (Structural Engineering Technology)
Lewis Instruments Scholarship
- Darren Stephen Prokopowich (Architectural Technology)
Louis Picard Memorial Scholarship
- Arturo Gomez (Geomatics Technology)
Manitoba Association of Resource Recovery Corp. Award
- Richard Chisel (Environmental Engineering Technology)
- Jasraj Singh (Environmental Engineering Technology)
Manitoba Good Roads Association Municipal Engineering Technology Scholarship
- Collette Alexandra (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Manitoba Infrastructure Award
- Arthur Aidarkhanov (Municipal Engineering Technology)
MHCA Cornerstone Award
- Sukhjeet Brar (Construction Management)
- Matthew Paquette (Construction Management)
Municipal Engineering Technology Achievement Award
- Taylor Violet Nault (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Neelin Wilson Construction Ltd. Scholarship
- Kaden Hiebert (Structural Engineering Technology)
- Ethan Funk (Structural Engineering Technology)
Paterson GlobalFoods Architectural Technology Award
- Arim Lee (Architectural Technology)
Paterson GlobalFoods Structural Engineering Award
- Tamara Fedorchuk (Structural Engineering Technology)
Paul Charette Construction Management Program Continuing Student Award
- Tosin Samuel Oladeinde (Construction Management)
Paul Charette Construction Management Program Entrance Award
- Ryan Lix (Construction Management)
Paul Charette Entrance Award for Civil Technology and Construction Management
- Cheyenne Jeanne Ehnes (Civil Engineering Technology)
- Simon Geberehiwet Gebreyesus (Civil Engineering Technology)
- Jakob Patrick Nyyssonen-Bacchus (Civil Engineering Technology)
- Kennady Lorraine Remillard (Construction Management)
- Long Yan Zhang (Civil Engineering Technology)
Paul Charette Year 2 Civil Technology and Construction Management Award
- Kyle Leo Bourgouin (Structural Engineering Technology)
- Jason A Feheregyhazi (Structural Engineering Technology)
- Ethan Nicholas Funk (Structural Engineering Technology)
- Thanh Xuan Nguyen (Construction Management)
- Jeffrey Austin St. Paul (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Robert Kwok Memorial Scholarship
- Matthew Salen (Geomatics Technology)
Robert Okabe Achievement Award
- Nicholas Wark (Geomatics Technology)
- Edward Butler (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Stantec Consulting Ltd. Scholarships
- Chandler Zasitko (Architectural Engineering Technology)
- Matthew Ronald Price (Municipal Engineering Technology)
Winnipeg Construction Association Construction Management Entrance Award
- Kennady Lorraine Remillard (Construction Management)
- Jordan Nathanael Davis (Construction Management)
Winnipeg Construction Association Construction Management Award for Continuing Students
- Richard V Arpin (Construction Management)
- Erwin Botardo (Construction Management)
- Yuliya Danilova (Construction Management)
- Matthew Thomas Paquette (Construction Management)
Mechanical Engineering Technology Awards
ASM International (Manitoba Chapter) Scholarship
- Spencer Lambert (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Boeing (Winnipeg) Scholarship
- Riley Dillabough (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Spencer Lambert (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Presley Manaigre (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
CTTAM Scholarship
- Inderpreet Mann (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Dynamic Machine Corporation Award
- Alexander Schonwetter (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Jim S. McEwan Memorial Award
- Brennan Reid (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Magellan Aerospace, Winnipeg Scholarship
- Brennan Reid (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Manitoba Aerospace Association Mechanical Engineering Technology Award
- Meaghan Harik (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Price Scholarships for Engineering Technology Year Two
- Spencer Lambert (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Random Vandal (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Inderpreet Mann (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Brennan Reid (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Cynthia Pham (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Filat Sharapov (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Price Scholarships for Engineering Technology Year Three
- Noah Gunderson (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Aurora Brown (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Adeshmeet Singh Brar (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Meaghan Harik (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Mae Escanilla (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Ronnie Benjamin (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Ryota Sugimoto (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Casslynn Ennis (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Sohail Yaqoob (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Heinrich Grenz (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Stefan Gebhardt (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
- Timon Kisser (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
Stantec Consulting Ltd. Scholarships
- Random Vandal (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
The Motion Canada be a partner Award
- Aurora Brown (Mechanical Engineering Technology)
RRC Instrumentation & Control Engineering Technology students earn medals at SAIT International
Four students from the RRC Instrumentation & Control Engineering Technology (ICE Tech) program attended the SAIT ISA international Student Instrumentation Games, held in Calgary from March 16 – 19, 2019. Instrumentation engineering students from all over the world attended the event and worked in teams to solve instrumentation and control challenges.
It is a great opportunity for students to meet and interact with their peers from around the world. The students enjoyed the experience and RRC was fortunate enough to come home with both a Gold and a Bronze medal: the only school to earn 2 medals! The participating institutions are listed below.
Of course, SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) was the host institution; thanks to them for inviting RRC again this year to attend a very well planned and executed event.
Participating Schools
- BCIT
- Bellingham Technical College
- Francis Tuttle Technology Center
- ISA District 12 (Spain/Ireland)
- ISA District 14 (India)
- Lambton College
- McMaster University
- NAIT
- Red Deer College
- Red River College
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic
- University of Alberta
- University of Calgary
- University of Houston
- University of Houston Downtown
- Virginia Tech
Team Leaders Ari and Bin showcased SpaRRCky to a number of interested participants and Ray Hoemsen, Executive Director, Research Partnerships & Innovation at RRC was part of the panel session “The Future of Electric Transit Innovation in Canada: Research & Development Needs”.
While there, SpaRRCky and the team won some new fans – including Josipa Petrunić, Executive Director & CEO of CUTRIC, who has invited the team to speak at the next forum.
Both Bin and Ari were interviewed (here) and (here) at the event and have shared the photos below:
After two and a half years of hard work, a team of Mechanical Engineering Technology students have landed Red River College on the Shell Eco-marathon’s leaderboard for the first time.
The team placed 14th in the battery-electric category at the Sonoma, California event, where they were one of only 55 teams (out of the 100 teams competing) who passed inspection and made successful runs on the track.
“I feel very proud of the team. It’s been a huge commitment and it was amazing to watch SpaRRCky (the College’s battery-electric vehicle) every time it lapped around us on the track,” says Bin Yang, who was the RRC team’s manager until he graduated last December.
Behind the wheel of the car was RRC Automotive Technician student Daren Nuevo, whose teammates described her as “fearless” in the driver’s seat.
“I was more eager to drive the car than I was nervous, and once I was on the road it was more exciting than I imagined,” Nuevo says about the experience. “Time after time the team worked extremely hard, fast and efficiently to meet the inspection requirements, and throughout all the hiccups that came about.”
Those hiccups — including a broken motor, a blown fuse and a loose wheel — were seen by the team as opportunities to make quick repairs on the fly. Using the skills they learned while designing and building SpaRRCky at the College, they were able to stay calm and work together in the moment.
“A lot of the teams end up working together to help each other out,” says Yang, who now works at RRC as a research assistant. “We lent out tools and nuts and bolts to a few teams and were lucky to borrow a few things from other teams. Especially the team from Universidad de La Sabana (in Colombia) who were able to lend us a spare motor.”
To get on the leaderboard, the team had to complete seven laps in under 26 minutes.
“Daren was just flying by,” says Yang. “After we made the fixes we just wanted to make sure we completed a successful run and then worry about strategy later, so she was lapping every car.”
Over the next year, the team will recruit new members to continue testing and making improvements to the vehicle. Their goal is to return to the competition in 2019 with a new strategy that will allow the car to go further using less energy.
“We made it work, and now we can make it better,” says Yang.
The Shell Eco-marathon finds students teams — from high schools, colleges and universities across North and South America — designing, building and racing cars that aim to go the furthest distance while using the least amount of energy.
The RRC team’s success would not have been possible without the generous support from their sponsors: CARIC (Consortium for Aerospace Research and Innovation in Canada), CTTAM (Certified Technicians and Technologists Association of Manitoba), NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) via the Vehicle Technology Centre, Custom Castings, MPG Sports and Red River College.
You can continue to follow their progress over the coming year on Facebook.
(Photo credit: Ari Robinson)
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The student team behind a battery-powered car named SpaRRCky successfully tested their car on Tuesday, November 28. The team designed and built the car for the Shell Eco-Marathon, which they are vying to compete in.
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Move over, Princess Peach – there’s a new racer in town. Twenty-three-year-old Automotive Technician student Daren Nuevo will soon be getting behind the wheel of SpaRRCky, Red River College’s battery-electric racecar.“I want to drive SpaRRCky now!” she said. But before Daren fastens into the driver’s seat, the raceteam has some work to do.
The team, made up of Mechanical Engineering Technology students, have taken measurements of Daren and the two backup drivers, which will allow them to build the final components of the vehicle.
The Shell Eco-Marathon, where the team is hoping to compete in either 2018 or 2019, has dozens of specific regulations for car design and safety, which RRC’s team are integrating around the new measurements. Once the car is fully rigged, the team will begin road-testing.
Daren said that this opportunity will give her a chance to speak to other women who may be interested in applied technology or trades program at RRC.
“I am in the automotive program, where there are not many women,” Daren said. “It’s great that I get to represent the College, and hopefully encourage other women to pursue careers in fields where women are in the minority.”
Racing, a sport that has also been dominated by men in the past, has begun to see an influx of women drivers, and Daren is proud to be a part of that. One of the team’s backup drivers, Kirsten Laufer, is also a woman, and they follow on the heels of Red River College graduate Amber Balcaen, the first Canadian female to win a NASCAR Sanctioned race in the USA.
When asked if she has any fears, Daren said just one.
“My worst fear would be accidentally breaking the SpaRRCky car,” she said. “Other than that, I don’t have any other fears. I am just excited to drive it!”
SpaRRCky and the RRC team are currently on a waiting list for the 2018 Shell Eco-Marathon at the Sonoma Raceway in California and will be applying for a spot in the 2019 competition. Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities to see SpaRRCky in action.
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Are you a Red River College student interested in getting into the driver’s seat of an electric car?
We’re seeking a driver and backup driver to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon, taking place in California, April 19-22, 2018.
The Eco-Marathon is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to race in an annual competition that sees student teams from across the globe building and racing their own cars.
Driver Requirements:
- Maximum height to fit in car: 5’7’’
- Optimum driver weight: 120lbs (or less) in full race gear
- Must be a Red River College student to qualify
- Will be required to occasionally meet with the Red River College team
- Will be required to travel to the U.S. for the duration of the competition
- Will have to sign a waiver from the College and Shell Eco-Marathon
About the Competition:
What: The Shell Eco-Marathon challenges student teams around the world to design, build, test and race ultra-energy-efficient vehicles.
When: April 19-22, 2018
Where: Sonoma Raceway, California
Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.
Deadline to Apply: Nov. 6, 2017
To express interest or for more info, email Matthew Brett at mabrett@rrc.ca
Selected applicants will be contacted for an interview and road test.
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The shop-floor was filled with energy last week as a team of Red River College students unveiled their Shell Eco-Marathon racecar to the college President and regional media.
“This is one of the best examples of applied learning,” said Red River College President, Paul Vogt. “When you combine industry-led training, with highly motivated students, and faculty expertise, you can achieve great things.”
View photos of the event and the team at work HERE.
A CTV News film crew made this excellent video capturing the “electric atmosphere” of the car unveiling, as the CTV news anchor put it:
The car was unveiled after a campus-wide vote took place to name the car. The campus community submitted over 50 proposed car names, which were then paired down to a shortlist of six names by a judging panel.
Nearly 300 students, faculty, and staff then voted for their favourite car name, with “SpaRRCky” winning by a narrow margin over “Rebel Racer.”
Winnipeg Free Press reporter Murray McNeill wrote this solid summary of the event.
Online news outlet ChrisD reported on the event, as did Classic 107, CityNews, and the weekly newspaper, Canstar.
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