Steel Bridge Design

The Steel Bridge Competition is sponsored annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) in conjunction with ASCE to foster educational excellence among the nation's civil engineering programs.  The contest requires student teams to design, fabricate, and manage a reduced scale bridge based upon a general set of material specification and geometric requirements.  Teams also have to erect their bridges during the timed competition.

To view photos of the ASCE team in action, visit http://bridge.njit.edu/

It may be fun for you to design a bridge using the West Point Bridge Designer software in the public domain that can be downloaded from this site:  bridgecontest.usma.edu

Make sure to install a copy on your hard drive!

Concrete Canoe Competition 

For more information on concrete canoes see www.concretecanoe.org