Over the course of a school year, the team concocts a concrete mixture light enough to float in water and uses it to construct a canoe. “You want to, first of all, design a canoe that’s as ...

Answer: The concrete canoe floats due to the unit weight of the concrete being less than the unit weight of water. The unit weight of water is 62.4 pounds per cubic foot, and the unit weight of our ...

This is the most basic form of construction: a hand-molded craft in which concrete is applied to a simple hull form. Leif Parsons Step 1 : Design a basic hull form or use an existing form on a CAD ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Concrete Canoe Competition is a national challenge that brings together students from more than 200 universities from around the country.

Drexel’s concrete canoe team has to build a workbench, design a final concrete mix, develop a canoe-shaped mold, create the canoe, practice racing it, write a technical report about the whole ...

By Paula M. Davis | Kalamazoo Gazette Using the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies as a theme, team members have dubbed their 20-foot-long, charcoal-colored vessel the Black Pearl.

Every fall, the Concrete Canoe Club goes back to the drawing board. Over the course of a year, their focus is to design and compete for the title of having the best concrete canoe. The two-day ...

The Concrete Canoe team at the University of Nevada, Reno has been hard at work casting their canoe and training in order to prepare for the annual Mid-Pacific Conference, the competition between 14 ...

They’ve built "RIT Rock," a concrete canoe, to race in regional competition, April 27–28, at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Then, if all goes according to plan, they’ll make their ...

The bridge design team finished sixth overall and the concrete canoe design team finished 14 th. “In between the regional and national competitions, we worked hard to lower our build time,” says Dylan ...

In June, they were one of 19 teams to earn an invitation to the ASCE’s nationwide Concrete Canoe Competition and took home fifth in the men’s slalom race. The UB team’s travel and participation in the ...