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February 15, 2011

Civil engineering student team slides into third place at the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race

The Ryerson Concrete Toboggan Team placed third overall in the 2011 Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race in Edmonton, Alberta from January 26-30. The Ryerson squad competed against teams from 18 Canadian universities, and also won the Best Concrete Mix Award.

The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race is a national engineering competition hosted by a different Canadian university each year. The event brings together over 400 students from top engineering programs across the country, and challenges students to use their technical knowledge to design and build concrete toboggans. Teams compete in a number of categories including shortest race time, highest speed, shortest stopping distance, concrete design, brake design, and overall design. The results from all categories are combined to determine the overall champion.

The Ryerson team was led by captain Michael Ragheb, co-captain Alivia Alaica, concrete mix design leader Anto Sucic and Domenic Valle, technical support. Dr. Medhat Shehata of the Department of Civil Engineering was the team’s faculty advisor.

The complete list of team members is as follows: Alivia Alaica, Michael Araujo, Gabriel Cucicea, Jake Evelyn, Bakir Fayad, Michelle Fong, Kevin Grant, Ahmad Jawabri, Ryan Khan, Charbel Khouri, Jimmy Lue, Bradley Maguire, Julianne Meijaard, Adriano Memme, Nick Petrovic, Michael Ragheb, Peter Ragheb, Raj Ramgobin, Elizabeth Ramlochan, Adam Salem, Sy Steppacher, Anto Sucic, Thomas Tiveron, Rami Toma, Helen Tran, Domenic Valle, Stacia Van Zetten, George Varavin, Chun-Lin Yang, and Lara Yousif.