Each year, teams of student engineers design, construct, and race a canoe made of concrete against other university teams in the ASCE's Concrete Canoe competition. This year, we're once again following the Illinois Tech team as they try to make it to Nationals.
Steel Bridge Competition Unites Students at ASCE Nationals
IIT Design: What Touring the World Taught Us
Students Prep for ASCE Nationals Without Burning Their Bridges
Student Engineers are Building a Steel Bridge to Utah
You might be a little familiar with the Steel Bridge Competition. Like the concrete canoe competition, it shares the similar goal of providing engineering students with the opportunity to use design and build as a competition piece. We partnered with a group of students from Illinois Tech to follow their progress. Did they bridge the gap?
Concrete Countdown: It's Sink or Swim Time! (Part 3)
Concrete, Canoes, Cramming and Caffeine (Part 2)
Regional finals are just days away for the National Concrete Canoe Competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. In this second installment, we check in with our team at Illinois Tech for an update as the big race nears.
ACE Mentors, Scouts Highlight Next-Gen Outreach
Students, Prepare to Launch your Concrete Canoes! (Part 1)
Who says engineers have no fun? If you are an engineer today, then you probably have at least heard of ASCE's National Concrete Canoe Competition. Starting here, BuiltWorlds this spring will follow one student team's hopeful journey to aquatic glory.
Illinois Tech Adds Innovation Center to Iconic Campus
The Driverless City
With the recent announcement of three finalists for the inaugural $1-million Nayar Prize, the Illinois Institute of Technology is putting its money where the innovation is. It’s readily apparent to all that autonomous vehicles are on the horizon, but can our cities handle them? Enter “The Driverless City” team.