THE LOUISIANA CIVIL ENGINEER - lasce

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
By LaDan Johnson and Ineaka Carbo
The Chapter has made many strides toward
success during the past semester. In January, 4
Chapter leaders and our faculty advisor attended
the Zone II Workshop for student chapter leaders
in Tampa, Florida. They came back with
renewed enthusiasm and great ideas for having a
successful year. During the last weekend in
March the Chapter participated in the Deep
South Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. A
group of 12 Chapter members participated in 4
events. The Chapter would like to thank Habib
P. Mohamadian, PE, Dean of Engineering, and
Patrick E. Carriere, PE, Chair of the Civil and
Environmental Engineering Department, for
their generous contributions to sponsor our travel
to Memphis.
As part of the Daniel Mead competition,
Jacques Gilbert presented a paper discussing the
relationship between cost and time management
and engineering risk management as they relate
to ethics. The Surveying competition team was
LaDan Johnson, Jonathan May and Brandon
DeJean. They were given the point of curvature
(PC) and the point of tangency (PT) of a horizontal
curve and its tangential distance. They
were required to locate its point of intersection
(PI). The trick was that the PT and PC were not
accessible - they were in a lake.
The Mystery event team, Tynekia Hampton,
William Roberson, Alexander Serrano and David
Nash, was presented with a wall to which they
were to secure a chair using duct tape, after
which a team member was to sit on the chair for
up to 3 minutes or until it came loose. The limitations
for securing the tape as well as the time
factor made this an intense competition. It was
fun for those who participated and for the audience.
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Ineaka Carbo pitches concrete horseshoes during the Conference competition
as team member Derwin Young (far left) looks on.
Posing after the awards banquet with their 3rd place trophy for the
Concrete Horseshoes competition are (from left) Ineaka Carbo, Yvette
Weatherton (Faculty Advisor), David Nash, Quenton Richardson,
Brandon Johnson, William Roberson, Jonathan May and Jacques Gilbert.
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The Surveying competition was pursued by
our surveying team of Renus Kelfkens, David
Minton, and Matt Morris. They spent 8 hours
measuring angles and distances using a
Theodolite and a measuring tape, and performing
advanced trigonometry. The team won third
place because of their hard work and the superdetailed
field book they produced. Our team was
by far the hardest working. Fantastic job, guys!
In all, the conference was a great success and
a great learning experience for our Chapter members
who attended. Our chapter suffered a major
setback as a result of Hurricane Rita and its aftermath.
As a result, we were not able to compete
in the Concrete Canoe competition during the
Conference as we had originally planned.
However, we are already making plans to come
back better than ever. We will be gearing up for
the 2007 Deep South Regional Conference that
will be hosted by the Louisiana Tech University
Student Chapter.
McNeese State University Student Chapter members. From the left are Chris Little, Chris Cabaniss and Megan Daughdril —
the hospital team.
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