For Students

Whether you’re pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree, the Centre for Engineering and Public Policy (OCEPP) offers a range of information, resources and activities that can help you in your university studies as well as build a profile for your future career. Along the way, you can also meet and network with some of the province’s most respected engineers, policy-makers, researchers, businesspeople and other professionals.


2012 Student Essay Competition judging underway
Students , thank you for your submissions to the centre’s 2012 Student Essay Competition. The winner in each of the undergraduate and a graduate categories will receive a $500 award and be invited to the centre’s 2012 Public Policy Conference, to be held in Toronto on Friday, May 11. Winners' names will be announced as soon as judging has been completed.


2011 OCEPP Essay Competition winner
Congratulations Lesley!
The Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy (OCEPP) extends heartfelt congratulations to Lesley Herstein, winner of this year's Student Essay Compeition, and a sincere thank-you to all students who entered the competition. Lesley is a PhD student at the University of Toronto and her paper is titled  Bridging the Gap: The Potential Role of the Engineer in Addressing Ontario’s Water Infrastructure Deficit. 


Lesley Herstein

Other 2011 competition entries 
Below is a selection of entries:

Canadian Strategies for the Photovoltaic Technology Market, by Oscar Wasilik, University of Ottawa student click here 
Current Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies in Canada and Beyond, by Shaunak Ray, University of Waterloo student click here 
Global Clean Water, by Sommer Abdel-Fattah, McMaster University student click here 

2010 winners 
Jane Chui, a fourth-year student engineering science student at the University of Toronto, and Arthur Yip, a third-year student in the chemical engineering program at the University of Waterloo, were the winners of the Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy's 2010 Student Essay Competition. Jane's paper, Managing Ontario river restoration projects, surveyed legislation and policy regarding river restoration projects, while Arthur's essay, Why Ontario needs a sustainable--not green--energy policy, focused on sustainable versus green energy policy for Ontario. Their papers were published in the August 2010 issue of The Journal of Policy Engagement.

              
  Jane Chui                 Arthur Yip

2009 winners
The winners of the 2009 student essay competition were Sommer Abdel-Fattah, a PhD student from McMaster University, and Victoria Sharpe, an undergraduate student from the University of Guelph. Sommer's paper dealt with the Privacy and Security of Medical Hospital Records while Victoria's essay was a Proposal for a Policy Framework to Transform Brownfileds into Industrial Mustard Biofuel Production Sites. 


Page updated March 2, 2012.