Tag Term: Steel Bridge

Facebook Groups – Your Own Private Island

Jul 01 2011

In an earlier post, I said we would share tips about different social media and today’s post is about creating groups in Facebook. What’s the purpose of a group when you can just invite people to view your page? Why would creating one be helpful?  How do you create a group?  What kinds of things would be…

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Steel Bridge 2011 – On the Other Side of the Fence

Apr 05 2011

This weekend I returned to my alma mater, the University of Michigan, for the North Central Regional student conference.  It was the first time that I had attended the annual Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe competition in at least five years.  The last time, I helped a team rebuild their broken canoe with left over…

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Crunch Time for Student Project Teams

Feb 09 2010

I’ve got a deadline to meet this Friday.  Not sure where I’ll find the time to get all of my tasks done, but somehow it always comes together.  If you thought that the pressure of working on a deadline would end when you graduated, then think again.  Better to gain as much experience handling stress…

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ASCE Sports: Steel Bridge

Nov 27 2009

It may not make the ESPN highlight reels, but the participants in the ASCE/AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition place as much pride in their teamwork as do their schools’ football teams.  This inter-collegiate challenge requires civil engineering students to design, fabricate and construct a steel bridge.  Those who participate fully in the project learn many…

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