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In Brief 

Students compete across faculties

Over the weekend of Jan. 26 and 27, Concordia hosted the Quebec Engineering Competition, an academic competition that brings in more than a dozen schools to compete in design, consulting engineering, debates and scientific communication.

Concordia’s team came first in senior design. They had 12 hours to design a machine capable of traversing difficult terrain, collecting a liquid from an underground reservoir, and returning the liquid to the starting area.

In the consulting engineering category, the teams were given six hours to look at the feasibility of using the north west passage as a viable shipping alternative. Concordia placed second in this category, and got a special commendation for technical excellence.

Both teams are representing Concordia at the national level at the Canadian Engineering Competition in Waterloo, Ont., from March 6 to 9.

Meanwhile, a team from the John Molson School of Business reached the finals of the Marshall International Case Competition in Southern California.

They had to devise a strategy for the Los Angeles Times, facing reduced readership and a troubled U.S. economy. Teams were given 24 hours to analyze the situation and presented their recommendations to judges from the industry.

Although 30 schools from around the world participated, the JMSB was one of only six to reach the final round. The students from the University of Auckland were the eventual winners.

Students confer on globalization

Loyola International College and Siena College, of New York State, are holding their third student conference on globalization March 7 at Hingston Hall on the Loyola Campus.

Two professors from Siena will give presentations, one on sustainable development issues in the tropical rain forest of Panama, and the other on the impact of the Three Gorges Dam project in China.

Concordia will be represented by two speakers: Mitchell Irwin, who does research on an endangered species of lemur, the diademed sifaka, and teaches biodiversity at Loyola International College, and Ian Macauley, an independent student who is active with Sustainable Concordia and the 1% campaign.