The University of Miami College of Engineering participated in the 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Southeast Regional Student Conference hosted by University of Tennessee. During this three-day event, engineering students from more than 20 schools traveled to the Knoxville’s campus to engage in networking and competition activities.
This year’s theme was Rockin’ in the Smokies. The competition events included the concrete canoe, design and construct concrete canoes and compete in sprint races; GeoWALL, design a mechanically stabilized earth wall; innovation contest, develop solutions in selected civil engineering topics inspired by National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges; sustainable solutions, develop a paper addressing the project’s technical aspects; present design to judges and construct a full-size version of the dog house. There also were some new spirit competitions in transportation and water resources engineering.
“The University of Miami team had more than 900 documented hours working on the canoe construction and design. The Sustainable Doghouse team put in the same number of hours over the year,” said Diana Arboleda, senior lecturer in the CoE’s Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. “I’m pleased with the effort that our students, faculty and staff put into this conference. It was a great networking and learning experience and we look forward to making improvements to our designs to place next year!”
ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society and the largest publisher of civil engineering content in the world. Eighteen ASCE student conferences take place throughout the United States each spring to increase student awareness and interest in civil engineering.
