CQU Engineering students Dallas Edwards, Charles Hatte, Chris Ault and Scott Mannley will travel to Sydney on September 23-25 to compete in the Weir-Warman and Engineers Australia, Design and Build Competition at the Power House Museum.

Students had to design a device to complete the specified scope. Pictured are the CQU students who designed the device - Dallas Edwards, Brendan Cooper, Kenney Hansen and Charles Hatte.

Those attending the competition have to give a 15-minute presentation outlining the concepts of their design, together with live demonstrations of the device operating.

The project task for the competition is as follows:.

Project “SCAD” – Safe Collection and Delivery.

Following recent tremors and quakes on the planet Gondwana, concern has been expressed about effective rescue of citizens caught on the wrong side of large crevices. It is proposed that a device be designed and trialed to transport passengers from the significantly at-risk hillside communities along the “Superior Fault-Line” to the safer more stable plain below.

In the “ACME Pinnacle Laboratory”, the Gondwanan Land Rescue Organisation is struggling to arrive at a design that might be feasible. Fortunately, teams of engineering students from Earth are about to visit Gondwana as part of their work experience programs. On previous visits, engineering students have rendered invaluable assistance, and the Gondwanans again seek help from these budding engineers.

Details are at: www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/acme/studentactivities/warman/index.html .