Autobiography

Actual personal biography submitted to the Quebec Engineering Competition Innovative Design Category, held this year at Sherbrooke University from January 21-24.

1.3 David Ting

The son of two engineers, David has continued the family legacy by enrolling himself into the Chemical Engineering program at McGill University. Born and raised in Southern Alberta, David was raised alongside the cattle and the horses at Angry Cowboy Ranch, located at the outskirts of Lethbridge. His parents knew David was destined for engineering when, at age five, he built a contraption that facilitated farm-wide manure transportation. This was indicative of David’s burgeoning interest in design and fabrication. His decision to move to Quebec marked a tumultuous time in David’s life. After being exiled from the ranch for bartering two cattle for the lowly price of 20 bushels of wheat, David packed up his belongings and flew to Montreal before enrolling in McGill. He, however, could not shake his Albertan roots. His choice to enter Chemical Engineering was in hopes to gain a job in the Albertan Oil Sands and to eventually reclaim his family’s reputation for shrewd bartering. His interests in Chemical Engineering are diverse: ranging from the 7-times tables, to manure production, to manure consumption. David has always wanted to be innovative and his interest in design made the Innovative Design category an obvious choice. His interests outside of university include square dancing, horseback riding, and bone-hockey (an Albertan variant of hockey played with cow bones instead of sticks).