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On Video: "Wow!" MechEng Undergraduates win IMechE National Design Challenge 2024
4 November 2024
National Champions for the 4th year running, our UCL MechEng teams won the Foundation and Advanced categories in a competition of small, automated vehicle prototype designs.
Two UCL Mechanical Engineering undergraduate teams took home the major prizes at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) National Design Challenge 2024. Here's a chance to see how they did it with amazing performances throughout the day.
National Champions for the 4th year running, both UCL MechEng teams won the Foundation and Advanced categories in this competition of small, automated vehicle prototype designs, hitting targets with perfect scores in each round. Listen out for the judge exclaiming “wow” at the accuracy!
The victory in this competition extends a run of competition successes for mechanical engineering students. These wins including UCL Rocket recent National Rocketry Championships have dramatically increased since the inception of the department’s Kings Cross-based teaching lab MechSpace. Students, supported by technical staff and student mentors can design and build practical projects for assignments, extra-curricular competition and just for fun in the well-equipped facility.
The winning Foundation team (former Year 1 undergraduates) was.
- Victor Brinzan
- Hovan Cheung,
- Leonardo Piglia
- Ram Gautham Kurakula
- Kabir Shah
- Rustam Toshov
The successful Advanced team was:
- Belkacem Bella,
- Daud Hassan,
- Taro Kurado,
- James Kwong
- Christopher Shiao