Joseph M. DaSilva won the first place award in the Old Guard Poster Competition at ASME

2017 Jul 6

Mechanical Engineering student Joseph DaSilva won the first place award in the Old Guard Poster 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.

DaSilva is majoring in the Five-Year Bachelor/MSME Program. This program allows undergraduate Mechanical Engineering majors in the College of Engineering to accelerate the completion of the bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) and to earn the master's degree in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) with just one additional year of study.