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| Two teams from the LSU American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter placed first overall in competitions at the 2006 Deep South Regional ASCEConference which concluded earlier this month. The teams, representing the LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, won for concrete canoe and steel bridge design. Both teams placed first in their overall categories and have been invited to attend their respective national competitions later this year. The 2006 Canoe Team members were Captain Garrett Sutley, Jason Grzych, Erin Malone, Katie Spansel, Bridget Scheyd, Elizabeth Holloway, Jourdan Despot, Paul Govan, Matt Blackwell, PJ Kocke and Neil Marinello. The team was judged for their design paper, oral presentation, final product quality and concrete canoe race results. Placing first overall, the team received a trophy and is invited to compete in the National Concrete Canoe Competition at Okalahoma State University, June 15-17. The canoe team also placed first in the categories of Men’s Endurance and Coed Sprint, second in the Women’s Endurance and Sprint events, and third in the Men’s Sprint. The 2006 Steel Bridge Team members were Captain Jason Fennell, Jose Pineda, Jacob Brasher, Brent Jones, Daniel Boyd, Ryan Hedlund, Joseph Marino, Nick Okubo, Liz Holloway and Danielle Chabaud. They were judged on aesthetics (the overall beauty of the bridge and the design poster), weight (poundage of the bridge), stiffness (how little it deflects under a standard loading scenario for all competitors), construction speed (how fast the team can assemble the bridge on-site), construction economy (speed multiplied by the number of builders), structural efficiency (stiffness multiplied by weight), and finally, the overall construction economy and structural efficiency, for which the lowest score wins. The team won first place overall and is invited to attend the National Student Steel Bridge Competition at the University of Utah, May 26-28. The team also took first place in aesthetics, weight and structural efficiency, second place in construction speed and construction economy and third place in stiffness. The LSU teams were sponsored by the LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and 1950 LSU civil engineering alumnus Frank Clark. They received guidance from LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering technical staff member David Robertson and ASCE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Ayman Okeil, who is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU. Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 139,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s oldest national engineering society. For more information on ASCE, visit www.asce.org. –30– |
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