The Faculty wishes to offer our congratulations to the two Chem-e-car teams from UWA who succeeded at the Chemeca conference.

Team Roadtrain (Hatim Essajee and Janette Widjaja) won best poster and team Squeaky (Lionel Lam, Rhys Daniel and Andrew Vinciguerra) - on the photo - came third in the actual competition.

UWA teams competed against four other finalist teams from around Australia in a competition to design and construct a car powered by a chemical reaction.

Chem-E-Car is part of Chemeca 2009, an annual international chemical engineering and chemical industry conference, which was held in Perth on 26 - 30 September. The competition was open to undergraduate chemical engineering students.

Students had to design and construct a car that uses a chemical reaction to power the car and control the distance that the car travels, carrying a specified load.

Electronics, computers and brakes were not allowed. The competition was about demonstrating the ability to control a chemical reaction.

"It has been an outstanding result for our first time in the competition", said Dr Matt Hardin, who led both teams to the success.

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Magdalena Matuszczyk / magdalena.matuszczyk@uwa.edu.au / 6488 4277