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Top from left, City Tech student team, ASCE student club officers
and faculty advisers Saskiha Hoyte, Stacy Cruickshank, Professor
Anthony Cioffi, Professor Gerarda Shields, Luis García, Kenneth
Faas, Napoleon Molfetas and Rosemary Brybag. Bottom from left,
Roxann Somersall and Teresa George.
City Tech bridge under construction
Completed City Tech bridge
It’s On to the ‘Nationals’ for City Tech’s Steel Bridge Competition Team
A student team from City Tech’s Department of Construction Management & Civil Engineering Technology took second placed in the 2007 Regional Steel Bridge Competition held on campus in April. City Tech's team beat teams from Columbia, City College of New York, Rutgers, Stevens and the New Jersey School of Engineering. The team constructed its bridge, which supported a required 2,500 pounds of weight, in 14 minutes and 11 seconds. As a result, City Tech will go on to the 2007 National Steel Bridge Competition to be held on May 25-26 at California State University/Northridge, where it will compete against students from some of the best engineering schools in the country.
Co-sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the National Steel Bridge Alliance, the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, Nucor Corporation and Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc., this 16 year-old event enables civil engineering students from colleges and universities nationwide to design, fabricate and construct a steel bridge. An educational institution may enter more than one bridge in a regional contest, but only the best one, if a regional winner, can go on to the national competition.
"Five of our six team members were women, which is very unusual,” says Provost Bonne August. “They competed against very prestigious schools. We are exceedingly proud of their victory and wish them well at the national competition in California.”
05/10/07
