University of Nevada, Reno Concrete Canoe team members at the ASCE national competition June 3-5 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. | University of Nevada, Reno press release.
University of Nevada, Reno Concrete Canoe team members at the ASCE national competition June 3-5 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. | University of Nevada, Reno press release.
Engineering students from the University of Nevada, Reno’s concrete canoe group recently garnered seventh place at the ASCE national concrete canoe competition.
According to a news release shared by the university, the team utilized a 355-pound concrete canoe at the competition held earlier this month at Louisiana Tech University.
Alex Tang, the team’s project manager, said that the previous two years of competition had been canceled due to the pandemic, which made this one significant.
“Competition at a national level reignited a flame and drive that was snuffed out by COVID,” Tang said in the news release. “I know that moving forward, our team is going to work twice as hard (to) strive for a national win.”
The university reported that the team had previously won first place at the April 2022 Intermountain Southwest Student Symposium, which is an area competition to see if the team could compete nationally. The school will host regionals next year where the team will be ready to go and hopefully place higher than they did this year.
The release reports that the event was established in 1988 as the American Society of Civil Engineers Concrete Canoe Competition in order to facilitate the ability for students to learn about project management hurdles and concrete mix design.
The school's Concrete Canoe club is spearheaded by College of Engineering Professor Kelly Keselica.
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