Overall Outstanding Performance Award

Again this year we encourage all chapters to seek after the overall performance award for the conference.  Last year’s winner was the University of Idaho.  The purpose of this award is to encourage broader participation in the conference and appeal to more than steel bridge and/or concrete canoe participants.  ASCE student conferences are intended to be much more valuable than just qualifiers for the two ‘big’ events. Chapters receive points for how they finish in each of the events at the conference as well as points from a sportsmanship survey which will be administered at UAA.

Business Meeting

This event is REQUIRED if your chapter wants to be eligible to compete in either the National Concrete Canoe or National Student Steel Bridge competitions. Your chapter representative must be there at the START of the meeting!  It’s at this meeting where the leaders from the various student chapters conduct the business of the conference including—but not limited to—determining host chapters for the future, modifications to the conference constitution and by-laws.

Steel Bridge

This is the major event of the conference.  We look forward to seeing many innovative designs.  Click on the link to find information about the event at UAA.

Technical Paper & Presentation

This event is REQUIRED if your chapter wants to be eligible to compete in either the National Concrete Canoe or National Student Steel Bridge competitions. This year the topic is broadly defined to allow you to showcase something of personal interest.  Click here to get all the details.

Concrete Bonspiel

Otherwise known as curling, this fun event challenges student chapters to utilize their concrete mix design skills as well as their physical talents.  Click here to see what it’s all about.

Orienteering

This is an exercise of your location finding skills with an engineering twist.  Enter as many teams as you like.  In fact, we are encouraging any faculty advisors attending the competition to band together to see if they are smarter and faster than their students. Click here for all the details.

Asphalt Density

All you transportation materials people should be excited about this one.  We provide the mix, you figure out how to compact it.  Click the link for fun with asphalt.

Environmental Event

Information on this event will remain unknown until the day of the event. See the link for any more information as it becomes available.

Concrete Canoe

NEW - CONCRETE CANOE RESULTS

Unfortunately, our lakes and streams will be frozen over during the conference and the UAA pool is not big enough for the job so the concrete canoe races are being hosted by the University of Portland April 15-16, 2011.  Click on the link to go to their website, or email Nathaniel Hardy at the following address: hardy11@up.edu.

Career Fair

More info coming soon!

Engineers Jeopardy

Test your engineering knowledge against your fellow students from the Pacific Northwest.  This fun competition will result in fame and fortune for the winners.  See the rules below to prepare for the event.  We invite the attending Faculty Advisors to be on the arbitrator panel.  Come have fun and snacks.

Awards Banquet

At the end of the conference each year, there is an awards banquet held, where the top teams in each event are presented with an award for their achievement. There is also a keynote speaker, who presents on a current topic in the engineering discipline.