CEENVE Spring 2018 Newsletter

Concrete Canoe
Team Wins Nationals
Second Year in a Row
Cal Poly was named national
champion at the 31st annual ASCE
Concrete Canoe Competition
in San Diego June 23-25. The
team placed first in the overall
competition, oral presentation,
final product, men’s endurance
race, women’s endurance race,
men’s sprint race, women’s sprint
race and co-ed sprint race.
The 19-1/2 foot canoe named
Van Gogh was inspired by the late
artist and and featured a blue hull
and a dozen accent colors.
2018 Concrete Canoe Team
Project Manager: Brandon
Friedman
Mix Design Captains: Kyle Aube,
Yingyi Xu, Mason Breipohl,
Michael Romano
Construction Captains: Hailey
Bond, Jacky Loh, Royston Chan,
Jason Johnson, Eleni Korogianos
The team spent more than 4,500
hours designing and building the
canoe over six months. The team
included nine civil engineering
Nine of the 10-member 2017-18
Concrete Canoe Team ready to
defend their title in San DIego.
students and one mechanical
engineering major. In addition, more
than 50 volunteers from Cal Poly’s
ASCE student chapter contributed
to the successful defense of the
national title.
The team began testing designs
in September and a final design
was chosen in November. The final
canoe was cast in January, cured in
February and demolded by March.
With the help of the volunteers, the
team spent March and April sanding
down the canoe.
“My favorite part about working
on this project is the people. If
you have a great team to work
with, all the challenges become
easier,” said Brandon Friedman,
project manager.
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