Carleton Civil Engineering students win the Mike Sheflin student paper competition

A Carleton University Civil Engineering design project group supervised by Ata Khan won the first prize in Ontario Public Works  Association Ottawa Valley Branch Mike Sheflin Student Paper Competition held on Friday, April 12, 2013. At this yearly activity, Carleton University and University of Ottawa Civil Engineering students show case their best efforts in the area of Public Works. The winning project from Carleton University was titled “Carling Avenue Light Rail Transit”. This  competition honours Mike Sheflin, who served as Commissioner of Public Works at the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (renamed as the City of Ottawa). The Hunt Club Road Bridge across Rideau River is named after Mike Sheflin.

Picture: From Left: Ata Khan, Dave Yaeger (DelCan Corporation, organizer of the event), Mike Sheflin, Naser Snobar, Nyishi Muchima (Design Project Manager), Gosego Motukwa, Ben Pascolo-Neveu, and Pubudu Herath. A sixth member of the design project team, Saeid Matin, could not attend this function and is not shown in the picture.