The University of Vermont earned the award for Best Economic Solution at this year’s Engineering and Commerce Case Competition (ENGCOMMM) at Concordia University in Montreal. This year’s team included sophomore Ethan Ryen, Business Administration (Global Business) and seniors Meredith Gove, Business Administration (Sustainable Business), Olenka Duncan, Environmental Engineering, and Kristina Sitcawich, Biomedical Engineering.
ENGCOMM is the only student-led multidisciplinary case competition in the world. Teams from Egypt, Israel, the Netherlands, and throughout Canada compete to develop the best solution to a real world problem within a limited time—six hours of preparation in the first two rounds and then 12 hours for the third and final case.
They present their proposed solutions to a panel of judges that includes industry executives and subject matter experts and are judged on sustainability, the creativity and novelty of their business and engineering solutions, and the quality of their presentation. UVM was among only 4 of 11 teams that earned accolades, including the overall winners, Maastricht University.