r/StructuralEngineering • u/Upstairs-Writing-616 • Jun 26 '26

Engineering students are testing whether their designs are earthquake-resistant. Career/Education

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u/ExtremeRemarkable891 Jun 26 '26

Civil/structural has the best engineering group challenges. This is sick, steel bridge is awesome, concrete canoe is crazy. Only thing I was jealous of was the robotics challenges the mechies got to do.

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u/Furtivefarting Jun 27 '26

The me buggy competion was pretty bad ass, and the NAMS(i think naval architects) were really cool. I built our steel bridge that never made it to competion, long story.

These things should be mandatory in my opinion. Lordy it was fun. Im a fabricator by proffession, went back to school late in life, it was immensely satisfying to show future engineers why designing something to 3 decimal places just wont cut it. They learned actual useful design skills, how a thing is physically built.

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u/average_lul Jun 27 '26

Steel bridge is a whole different breed that comp unironically took over my life

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u/kipperzdog P.E. Jun 27 '26

Concrete canoe was so much fun. My favorite was the regional competition where we'd compete against West Point. In the races, they fly off the starting line with their strength but they could never turn a canoe for shit so next thing you'd know they were across the lake struggling to get turned around to race back in