Faculty of Engineering

Turning great ideas into commercial success

April 09, 2009

The Prizes in Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2009 (PEI) took place on Friday, March 27. Over five hours, undergraduate and graduate students presented a product, technology or innovative service developed through course or research work. But then students had to look beyond science and technology and come up with a business plan to commercialize their idea taking into account such things as developing the product, defining a market and financing. Some alone and some in teams of two, three or four, students had to convince eight judges that their idea was feasible.

Among the 12 projects presented, three undergraduate and three graduate projects were retained. You can read all about the PEI in the April 6 edition of the Ottawa Business Journal (Click here to view the full article).


Here are the winners:


Undergraduate


First Place: SuiteDelphin

  • Simon Roy (Bachelor of Applied Science Software Engineering)
  • François de Bellefeuille (Bachelor of Applied Science Software Engineering)
  • Anthony Lainesse (Bachelor of Applied Science Software Engineering)


    • Second Place: Solid State Sound

  • Pierre Coulombe Catellier (Bachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering, Co-op)
  • Jean-Pierre Simard (Bachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering, Co-op)
  • Zac Brunet (Bachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering, Co-op)
  • Paul Lalonde (Bachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering)


    • Third Place: Automatic Traffic Barrel Machine

  • Bahareh Momenan (Bachelor of Applied Science Mechanical Engineering)


    • Graduate


    First Place: The Seasonal Absorption Thermal Energy Storage System (SATESS)

  • Dan Dicaire (Master of Applied Science Chemical Engineering)


    • Second Place: MicronSpec

  • Honglei Guo (Doctorate in Philosophy Electrical Engineering)


    • Third Place: MEDTECH Life

  • Marc Doumit (Doctorate in Philosophy Mechanical Engineering)


    • Other participants (undergraduate)


    ROADS

  • Jerome Choi


    • I Recycle

  • Nadege Balima
  • Sidney Loko


    • Other participants (graduate)


    Advanced Music Solutions

  • Eric Oyono
  • Iain Baxter
  • Patrick Dumond


    • Household Dynamics

  • Andrew Thompson
  • David Grant
  • Étienne Bordeleau


    • Social Mobile Applications

  • Hazem Awad et al.


    • Defensible Model Measurement

  • Geoffrey Parker

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