Forty-eight student engineering teams will converge at the University of Missouri-Kansas City May 22-23 to compete in the 2015 ASCE/AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition (NSSBC). This year, 224 college teams from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, China and the United Arab Emirates participated in a total of 18 regional competitions, and the top teams from each region will have a chance put their skills on display at the national level.
Congratulations to this year’s qualifying teams! They are:
- Arkansas State University
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- California State University, Northridge
- California State University, Sacramento
- Clemson University
- École de technologie supérieure
- George Mason University
- Idaho State University
- Iowa State University
- Kansas State University
- Kennesaw State University
- Lafayette College
- Lakehead University
- Louisiana Tech University
- Merrimack College
- Michigan State University
- Michigan Technological University
- Milwaukee School of Engineering
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- New Mexico State University
- Oregon State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Rowan University
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- SUNY at Buffalo
- SUNY at Canton
- Texas A&M University
- The University of Akron
- Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
- Université Laval
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- University of California, Davis
- University of Central Florida
- University of Florida
- University of Hawaii at Manoa
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Kansas
- University of Maryland
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- University of Vermont
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Utah State University
- Virginia Tech
- Western Kentucky University
The NSSBC challenges teams with designing, fabricating and constructing their own scaled steel bridge in the shortest time and under specific building constraints. Bridge rankings are based on a variety of factors including: construction cost, construction speed, total bridge weight and bridge stiffness.
For more about the competition, visit www.aisc.org/steelbridge.