{"id":309,"date":"2014-02-06T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/?p=309"},"modified":"2023-02-22T20:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:21:01","slug":"student-competitions-steel-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/2014\/02\/06\/student-competitions-steel-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Competitions: Steel Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_0266a.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/ecsdean\/enews\/fp-content\/images\/2013fall\/IMG_0266a.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatleft alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/ecsdean\/enews\/fp-content\/images\/2013fall\/.thumbs\/IMG_0266a.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0266a.JPG\" width=\"350\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>CSUN\u2019s Steel Bridge team upheld a long, proud campus tradition by qualifying for the national competition for the 11th time in 15 years. The competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, requires teams to design, fabricate and build a scaled steel bridge in response to a mock request for proposal. The bridge is then judged on such characteristics as stiffness, lightness, construction speed, aesthetics, efficiency and economy.<\/p>\n<p>The CSUN team, which included students from freshmen to seniors, placed first in last April\u2019s regional competition, against teams from 17 universities from Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii. At the national contest, held at the University of Washington May 30 through June 2, CSUN came in 16th overall out of 49 teams, placing in the top third of the pack.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0556.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/ecsdean\/enews\/fp-content\/images\/2013fall\/IMG_0556.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/ecsdean\/enews\/fp-content\/images\/2013fall\/.thumbs\/IMG_0556.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_0556.JPG\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>What makes the team\u2019s repeated successes so remarkable is the fact that the Steel Bridge competition is entirely extracurricular at CSUN\u2014it is not part of any capstone senior design project. \u201cFor them to do so well is an indication of how well the program is preparing them for industry and the profession,\u201d says Nazaret Dermendjian, professor and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSUN\u2019s Steel Bridge team upheld a long, proud campus tradition by qualifying for the national competition for the 11th time in 15 years. The competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, requires teams to design, fabricate and build a scaled steel bridge in response to a mock request for proposal. The bridge is then judged on such characteristics as stiffness, lightness, construction speed, aesthetics, efficiency and economy. The CSUN team, which included students from freshmen to seniors, placed first in last April\u2019s regional competition, against teams from 17 universities from Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii. At the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}