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News | Archives A team of engineering students from the University of Auckland, sponsored by IPENZ, won the prestigious Weir-Warman Design and Build Competition held in Sydney recently. The team was made up of second year students from the Faculty of Engineering, and beat teams from 16 other universities to claim first prize. Kelvin Peng (20), Eric Yang (20) and Rob Horsley (22) won A$750 and the coveted trophy. They beat defending champions and winners for the past two years, the University of Western Australia. “It is traditional for IPENZ to sponsor the campus finalists for this prestigious international competition. And we have been rewarded as New Zealand teams have historically done very well – and might be at the head of the league table if results over the years were assessed,” said IPENZ Deputy Chief Executive, John Gardiner. This year IPENZ sponsored both the Auckland and Canterbury teams to attend, as they were both campus finalists. The annual competition, now in its 18th year, challenges second-year Mechanical Engineering students to solve practical problems set by the organisers and sponsors Weir-Warman International and Engineers Australia. This year’s challenge, called Project PEP (Potential Energy Propulsion), was to design a transport system that utilised potential energy from a falling 4kg weight. This energy was to be used to propel a device and weight of rice as far along a ramp as possible. The total weight of the device and the rice it transported was not to exceed 4kg. Teams scored on how far their device travelled up the ramp and the weight of rice they transported.
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