Concrete Canoe Presentation
| November 6, 2007 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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As the 2007-2008 school year begins, it means one thing for the students involved in the University of California at San Diego’s Concrete Canoe Team: another chance to use the engineering knowledge they have learned in school and apply it to a real life problem. After five years of competing in this event, the team has learned a great deal about lightweight aggregates, water to cementious ratios, concrete finishing, and concrete construction.
The UCSD Concrete Canoe Team competes against seventeen other universities in the Pacific Southwest Regional Conference (PSWRC) held each year in April. This year, UCSD will travel to California State University - Northridge to show off their final product. Each year the canoe team focuses on the research and use of new lightweight aggregates, improved construction techniques that will provide a smoother finish, and a way to improve the hull design to be racecourse ready.
The canoe teams not only produces a full-size canoe out of concrete, but they write a technical paper, give an oral presentation, and race their canoe in five different races at the PSWRC. This year, the team hopes to improve upon their two past year fifth place finishes.
