Amount of funding awarded
8159.7
Budget Report
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How the program has supported you
PAF is UBC Concrete Canoe’s largest contributor. PAF funding helped equip our team with the resources necessary to develop innovative solutions and further cultivate students’ engineering skills. We achieve this by involving members in informative naval architecture, structural, and concrete design sessions, coupled with hands-on construction processes.
This year, the team competed in 2 regional competitions and for the first time progressed to a national-level competition. These events allowed us to be evaluated by industry professionals, network, and learn from other teams across North America. This is a crucial part of our year-long process.
Thanks to funding from the PAF, our team was able to afford all necessary construction materials and attend all competitions and achieved the best results in our team’s history.
Outcomes
UBC Concrete Canoe boasted over sixty members this year. Our members had a chance to learn techniques and procedures that supplement their university education, giving them an edge in their future engineering careers. Our hull design team worked extensively with both industry standards like Autodesk Inventor, and unique open-source software like Freeship for canoe structural design and analysis. Our mix design team was trained in proper concrete batching, testing, and analysis. During Construction, students were familiarized with an engineering workplace. At all stages, students experienced the research process and overcame challenges as a team.
In the short term, students benefit from collaborating in an engineering environment, learning to solve technical challenges while networking with students from across North America at competitions. In the long term, students can take their experience in project management, their technical knowledge, and technical communication skills to their future workplaces and solve real-world engineering problems.
