[FlyingDutchman]

Hey everyone, thought I might share my senior design project that I spent 300 hours on that began in Sept. for two 2cr classes. I am a senior civil engineering major at Geneva college (western PA, between Pitt/SRU) graduating in May. Up until this point I have had nothing but theory classes and finally got to get involved in a design/build project.

The project was to design/build a steel bridge to take a certain load and design around a ton of rules/parameters. A competition is hosted by the AISC/ASCE every year with a regional and national level that judges weight, speed to construct, aggregate deflection, and display. Overall, we did great (4th of 14) considering the schools we went against (CSU, YSU, CM, UA, etc.). I know it's probably not of too much interest to most people here but there is a lot of steel and welding pics.

You don't need a Facebook to visit the link below (it's definitely worth visiting!):

Geneva Steel Bridge pictures

My favorite parts of the project were physically seeing the theories used and assumptions made plus I learned how to weld (MIG) and ended up welding the entire thing myself .. As you can see from the pics, there was a lot of that to do ..



For the mechanical engineers/car lovers, my school is also involved in the SAE Baja competition. They are heading to TN this week for a series of competitions (accel, braking, rock climb, endurance, etc.).



Anyone else have any cool senior design projects to share?