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Concrete canoe races and steel bridge building took place, Friday, March 31, at Chester Frost Park as part of the American Society of Civil Engineers Mid-South Student Symposium. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Shirtless and in running shorts, Jackson Arnold stood waist-deep in Lake Chickamauga. The air temperature was 57 degrees, the same temperature as the water.<\/p>\n

Cold?<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a little bit,\u201d he said, \u201cbut there are methods of warming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of those was paddling a 708-pound canoe made of concrete, which Arnold, a civil engineering senior at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, would do in a few minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never would think concrete would\u2019ve floated, but here we are,\u201d said Arnold, who graduated from Bearden High School in Knoxville.<\/p>\n

Along with 14 other universities, UTC students competed on Friday, March 31, in the Concrete Canoe competition, held in Chester Frost Park\u2014about 30 minutes north of Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

The canoe races were one of more than 20 events scheduled at the American Society of Civil Engineers Mid-South Student Symposium, hosted by UTC for the first time since 2015.<\/p>\n

Held from March 30 through April 1, the symposium also included a competition to construct a 24-foot bridge over a \u201criver\u201d whose banks were marked by strips of tape on the floor; building a wall from 150 pounds of sand within a matter of minutes; designing solutions to visibility issues at several Chattanooga intersections; and socializing events for members of each university to meet one another.<\/p>\n

Chris Frishcosy, director of labs for the UTC Department of Civil Engineering and one of the symposium organizers, said the networking and personal contacts students make during the event is one of its key takeaways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing they leave with, I think that they\u2019ll say UTC had a great social record,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

National finals for the concrete canoe race are scheduled for June 10-13 at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. In the Chattanooga races, UTC came in second place behind Lipscomb University. UT Knoxville took third place.<\/p>\n

Finals for the bridge-building competition are set for June 2-3 at the University of California San Diego. Harding University won first place in Chattanooga, Christian Brothers University was second and Vanderbilt University was third.<\/p>\n

The Concrete Canoe competition included all-female, all-male and coed teams. At Chester Frost Park, each school gave distinctive names for its canoe, such as \u201cMedusa\u2019s Gaze\u201d from Christian Brothers; \u201cPoseidon\u201d from Vanderbilt; \u201cRaging Red Wolves\u201d from Arkansas State University;  and \u201cThe Dreamboat\u201d from Lipscomb.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the UTC canoe was named \u201cMocs Express\u201d which, in the Female Slalom race, held two students dressed as hammerhead sharks.<\/p>\n

Although canoes were tested at the various schools where they were made, some failed once they hit the water. Two sunk; one broke in half; one developed a serious leak.<\/p>\n

Members of the UTC bridge-building team also were at Chester Frost Park on March 31, constructing their bridge\u2014girders, struts and other pieces painted blue and gold\u2014on a parking lot. They and several other university teams gave judges a chance to look at their bridges with an eye on aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Later that day, the teams took their bridges completely apart. They hauled them down to the Chattanooga Convention Center, where they would rebuild them on Saturday, April 1, and let judges determine whether the bridges fit the precise specifications demanded by the competition.<\/p>\n

UTC hadn\u2019t competed in the bridge-building competition since 2019, so there was extra pressure on the team to, at the very least, not be disqualified for tiny mistakes.<\/p>\n

David Madrid, a senior in civil engineering at UTC and graduate of Springfield (Tennessee) High School, said the team began designing the bridge about eight months ago. They ran into technical problems when they ran tests a few weeks ago to see if their measurements were correct. Sometimes they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely frustrating, but we just came to terms on it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were actually thinking of calling it quits and thinking of just participating in the aesthetics, but we were, \u2018No, we\u2019ve put in all this work so far, we might as well just try to see it through the best we can.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as we don\u2019t get disqualified, that\u2019s a win for us, considering all the adversity we faced.\u201d<\/p>\n

No worries; the UTC team left happy. Although they didn\u2019t place in the top three, their bridge met the required specifications.<\/p>\n

Photo gallery by Angela Foster<\/h4>\n
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