Christopher E. Jurkiewicz placed fourth in the Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition at ASME

2017 Jul 6

Mechanical Engineering student Christopher Jurkiewicz placed fourth in the Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition during the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) North America East Student Professional Development Competition.

The competition was held at Tennessee Tech University, in Cookeville, TN from April 21-23, 2017. The ASME student event is held each year in the late spring semester and includes six separate competitions: A Student Design Contest, Student Design Competition Special Awards, Technical Webpage, an Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition, an Old Guard Technical Competition, and an Old Guard Poster Competition.

"Our Mechanical Engineering Department is once again very pleased and proud to report that Western New England students upheld their tradition of taking a significant share of the awards," said Dr. Said Dini, chair of the Department.

He also had praise for other students who competed in the Student Design Competition. "They created a robot that is fast, strong, and agile. Their team built a remotely controlled device to compete against others in five different events-a robot pentathlon," he said.