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Concrete
Canoe
Since its humble beginnings in 1970, the concrete canoe project has been an annual tradition at UIUC. The project idea was conceived by UIUC Professor Emeritus Clyde Kessler as an educational and engaging design project for his honors class. Upon the completion of the 360-pound Mis-Led, Purdue University heard about this effort to construct a ferrocemento boat. So, in a true spirit of campus rivalry, Purdue challenged UIUC to a race. In May of the following year, the competition was held at Kickapoo State Park near Danville, Illinois. Following an intense, challenging contest, UIUC was officially crowned the first Concrete Canoe World Champion.
In the years since, the Concrete Canoe Competition has become an annual event, both at the Regional and National level. Every year, students from twenty Regions around the country compete, with each Region's winner advancing to the National Competition. The 2002 Regional Competition ended with a UIUC second-place finish.
Each year, UIUC tries innovative methods to improve the
Concrete Canoe design.
More information on this year's entry--as well as entries from years past--can be found on the
Canoe Website.
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Steel Bridge
The Steel Bridge Competition is an annual inter-collegiate event in which civil engineering students are challenged to design, fabricate, and construct a bridge. The students are simply given a twenty-page packet describing the rules for the competition, and the rest is for the students to figure out for themselves. The rules give information on span length, dimension requirements on members, loading amounts, construction rules, and judging criteria.
As with the Concrete Canoe Competition, there is a set of Regional competitions, with the top two finishers in each Region advancing to Nationals. The 2001 team won Regionals by the narrowest margin in recent memory, and capped a great year with a 16th place finish at Nationals..
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Engineering
Open House
Since 1920, the doors of the Engineering Campus at the University of Illinois have been thrown open to visitors from all over the country. People who attend these exhibitions come from industry, other universities, and high schools. Even people with no direct relationship with engineering, but who want to learn what makes the world go round attend. Yet to say that the Open House is simply an exhibition is to do a great injustice to those faculty and students whose year-round efforts have made the event so successful.
ASCE aids in the coordination of EOH every year, especially in Newmark Lab. More information on Engineering Open House can be found on the
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