Students earn first place in 2016 AIChE Jeopardy competition

2016 Apr 18

Trine Chemical Engineering Students travelled to Miami University in Oxford, OH, for the 2016 AIChE Student North-Central Regional Conference. In addition to attending various seminars and talks, students competed in the Research Poster, Jeopardy, and Chemical Engineering Car competitions.

The Jeopardy team, which included junior Joshua Marty, ran away with top honors, finishing first in a bracket style competition out of 15 schools. Questions were mostly related to chemical engineering courses but also included grab bag categories such as pop culture and geography. In three rounds of competition, the team never needed to wager for the final Jeopardy question, winning the finals $5200 to $1600 to $-2700 over Notre Dame and University of Toledo, respectively. The first place finish qualifies the team to compete in the National Finals in San Francisco this fall.