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A dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of students, taking on the challenge of designing, fabricating, and racing a concrete canoe for the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition. Combining hands-on engineering, creativity, and teamwork, the group will present their innovative design and compete against top post-secondary institutions from across the country.

Faculty Advisor: Pedram Sadeghian
Co-Captain: Will Sayson and Kyle Slaunwhite 
Competition Name: Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition

The ÈâÈ⴫ý Aerospace Design Team (DAL Aero) is a student-led initiative dedicated to designing and building Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for the SAE Aero Design competition. As Atlantic Canada’s first student UAV design team to take on this challenge, DAL Aero offers members hands-on experience in CAD, CFD, aerodynamics, embedded systems, and manufacturing. Open to all ÈâÈ⴫ý students, the team fosters learning through real-world aerospace challenges and is preparing to compete in both the Regular and Micro classes at SAE Aero Design East 2027.

Faculty Advisor: Colin O'Flynn
Co-Captains: Mithil Jha and Zachary Fraser
Competition Name: SAE Aero Design

We are a multidisciplinary, student-led group that designs, builds and races our 100% solar-powered electric vehicle, NOVA. After three years of hard work, we became the first team from Atlantic Canada to participate at the 2023 Formula Sun Grand Prix. 

Our mission is to demonstrate the plausibility of renewable energy as a better alternative to current practices; from outreach events and our social platforms, we want to show the community how realistic greener solutions can be and inspire young minds to pursue similar projects! Last summer, we raced again at FSGP 2024 with an extraordinary performance in Scrutineering. Now, building a brand new car we have our eyes set on FSGP 2026.

Faculty Advisor: Hamed Aly
Co-Captains: Noah Budgen and August Holder 
Competition: Formula Sun Grand Prix 
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Contact email: solarcar@dal.ca

DalMAST (ÈâÈ⴫ý Marine Autonomous Sailboat Team) is a student-led engineering design team focused on the development of fully autonomous sailboats. Our long-term mission is to compete in the Microtransat Challenge — a transatlantic race for unmanned surface vessels — requiring design in endurance, autonomy, and marine survivability.

Faculty Advisor: Colin O'Flynn
Co-Captains: Yassim Tourmir and ShiShir Gosh
Competition Name 1: Microtransat Challenge
Competition Name 2: International Robotic Sailing Regatta
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Contact email: dalmast@dal.ca
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ÈâÈ⴫ý Formula SAE (DALFSAE)  designs, builds, and races a small formula-style race car, with a focus on developing students engineering skills and technologies. The team transitioned to an electric drivetrain in 2022.

This allows student members to promote sustainable transportation and advance the future of mobility while actively gaining the necessary skills to easily integrate into the transitioning automotive industry upon graduation.

The team takes part in the international Formula SAE design competition, which includes static events such as design judging, business cases, and cost analysis, as well as dynamic events where team members races in the vehicle against other universities in a variety of disciplines. ÈâÈ⴫ý students of any background (engineering, business, arts, etc.) have a place in our society working to design, build, and promote the car and team while learning key interpersonal and hands on skills in a team-based environment.

Faculty Advisor: Andrew Warkentin
Co-Captains: Simon Beck and Rikuto Nakayasu
Website: Social media: Instagram -  fsae@dal.ca

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Force Seven Sailing is a multidisciplinary engineering team that was launched in 2023 as a partnership between ÈâÈ⴫ý and Memorial University of Newfoundland. This team provides students interested in naval architecture and sailing the opportunity to build their leadership, design and manufacturing skills by designing and building high performance racing sailboats. Currently the team is targeting the 2025 edition of the . Additionally, leading up to the competition the team will be presenting the project and boat at a number of ocean technology conferences, as well as the.

Email: Force7@dal.ca

ÈâÈ⴫ý Team Lead: Finley Nakatsu

Memorial Team Lead: Linus Rieger

ÈâÈ⴫ý Faculty Advisor: Colleen Dewis

The ÈâÈ⴫ý Formula SAE (DALFSAE) society provides ÈâÈ⴫ý students with the opportunity to transfer the knowledge learned in the classroom into concrete engineering skills. Students design, build, test and race an open-wheeled race car using first-principles-based engineering methods and then compete in the Formula Student collegiate competition hosted by the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Other skill development opportunities on the team range from project management, manufacturing, CAD design, simulation, research, leadership and more.

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Social media site: Instagram - @dalfsae

Contact email: fsae@dal.ca

Team lead: Alexandra Pimentel 

Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Warkentin

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Dal Sol is the first-ever solar electric vehicle team in Atlantic Canada. With NOVA, their 100% solar-powered EV, they have their eyes set on racing at internationally prestigious solar car competition Formula Sun Grand Prix 2022, American Solar Challenge 2024 and World Solar Challenge 2025.

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Social media: Instagram - @dalsolarcar

Contact email: solarcar@dal.ca

Team lead: Noah Bugden

Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Ghada Koleilat

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The ÈâÈ⴫ý Microtransat Autonomous Sailboat team is a multi-disciplinary engineering group who design and build a sustainable, small-scale, autonomous sailboat capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The marine vessel then competes in the ‘Microtransat Challenge,’  which challenges teams to launch their vessel off the coast of the Atlantic to journey across the ocean. The project also aims to advance the field of unmanned marine robotics, which have become key tools in the area of oceans research.

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• Instagram: dalsailboat
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Contact email: dalmast@dal.ca

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RoboSub is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) competition held annually in the United States where student-led teams travel to compete over a 6-day period. Leading up to the competition, teams are required to design, build, test, and compete with an AUV which is designed to complete a series of challenges during the competition. These challenges represent common real-world challenges for underwater vehicles, and can include object manipulation using a robotic arm, acoustic detection systems, underwater scanning with acoustics and video to name a few. These challenges are completed in a single timed run underwater, and the AUV must act 100% autonomously after deployed in the aquatic environment. This competition allows for testing at the site in samples of the competition environment, and multiple competition runs, however on the day of competition scoring the fixed underwater objective locations may change, and the AUV is required to adapt to these changes. The competition specific challenges change on an annual basis and are announced in the months leading up to the competition date. The AUV is shipped or brought to the competition venue leading up to the competition date. This mix of high-level autonomous functionality, coupled with electro-mechanical systems, and an underwater environment present a unique opportunity for students to learn and experience solving real-world challenges that face AUV designers.

Team Lead:  Maria MacDonnell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mae Seto

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ÈâÈ⴫ý Space Systems Lab (DSS) is ÈâÈ⴫ý’s first and only lab dedicated to the research and development of spaceflight systems. We are students and professionals working to facilitate the growth of spaceflight research and design amongst the Atlantic community.

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Social Media: Twitter account: @dssLabs Instgram: dalhousiespacesystems

Team Lead: Will Greenlaw

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mike Pegg (Rocketry) 

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An exciting and new team to ÈâÈ⴫ý this year (2024/2025), the Combat Robotics Team is looking forward to developing a robust design, building, and extensively testing robots this year. The goal is to be competition ready in 2025, where they will submit their battle bot to the National Havoc Robotics Leage (NHRL).

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jason Gu

Team Leads: Matt Gentleman, Matt.Gentleman@dal.ca, and Jack Brown, BrownJ@dal.ca

The ÈâÈ⴫ý Concrete Canoe Team project is a hands-on project for students from all Engineering disciplines. Each year, a 20-foot concrete canoe is designed and built by participating students from scratch. The canoe is then raced in the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition against over a dozen other schools from around the country. Year after year, the designing and construction of the boat provides a new group of students with the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience while applying our lessons from the classroom.

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A multi-discipline, student-run team that will extend their classroom knowledge by collaborating in the design, fabrication, and construction of a steel bridge (1:10 scale), in accordance with design constraints. The team will present the bridge and compete in an intercollegiate competition (CNSBC or Canadian National Steel Bridge Competition) that simulates industry operations.

Team Lead: Natalie Broomfield

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kyle Tousignant