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Engineering students prepare for steel bridge competition
Engineering students Jacob Finkelman and Paul Chabot are co-captains of the steel bridge competition this year.
“We have to manufacture the bridge ourselves,” Chabot said.
The team must not only design the bridge, but it also must put the pieces together and then compete with it. This gives them, according to Chabot, experience with “practical implementation.”
The regiment for designing and building is very meticulous.
“Every year they have new rules,” Finkelman said.
Each year, the bridge must be created entirely from scratch. When finished, the bridge and the teams are judged on an elaborate point scale consisting of criteria like how much time it took to complete the bridge, how many people it took to construct the bridge, how quickly it was constructed and how much the bridge deflects or bends at certain points.
The team is also under a space constraint. There are penalties for crossing or stepping into a taped off area that represents the “water” under the bridge. The bridge is to be 23 feet long, and it must hold 2,500 pounds of weight.
