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Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 15 2007, 05:53 PM

Not that you guys care... but i thought i would share

I was at the ASCE PSWRC competition in san diego from wednesday to sunday. (American Society of Civil Engineers - Pacific South West Regional Conference)

basically a huge competition between colleges in various civil engineering events.
steel bridge design, concrete canoes, concrete frisbees and bowling ball competition, seismic design, land surveying and a few others.

I was on the surveying party and we kicked some ass, ended up with a second place, as we were the second team to finish with dead nutz accuracy.... (and we did it with non digital equipment)

Over all... our school (Cal Poly Pomona) took first place over UCLA, SLO, USC, UNLV, ASU and 15 other schools in the area.

Was way fun to watch some people sink in their canoes, and some broke in half.

ill post some pics if you guys are interested.

now, to get caught up on school, so i can finish the top end rebuild on my car next weekend. LOL

Posted by: Headrage Apr 15 2007, 05:56 PM

Excellent news school boy.

Pretty tough competition, especially against SLO.

My hats off to you.

Way to go!!!

Posted by: URY914 Apr 15 2007, 07:18 PM

Nice work A, did you write it all down in your little orange book?

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 15 2007, 07:50 PM

orange field books were present

Posted by: TimT Apr 15 2007, 07:58 PM

I remember doing that 25 years ago.. our canoe broke

It was alot of fun!!

Pocket Protectors Unite!!

Posted by: TROJANMAN Apr 15 2007, 08:57 PM

Nice job Aaron. I guess you really are smarter than you look

Something to be proud of though

did you get a trophy?

I'd like to see the concrete canoes.........

Posted by: KaptKaos Apr 15 2007, 09:10 PM

NERDS!!!

Posted by: Pat Garvey Apr 15 2007, 09:22 PM

Exceptionally well put, Kap'n!

Me, myself & I were stripping fuel injection parts - in the middle of a classic nor'easter! 6 1/2 inches of rain & counting! Bother me - no, because I'm in my dry garage with my.......what? "Whatta ya mean we need to paint? "I'm doing important 914 work here" "Paint what? Oh yeah....be right in".

Even Mother Nature won't step in to help me! Tried to use the "blown knee" thing - stupid! Can't win! Tried to use the sloppy painter thing too. Saw right through it.

"You painted that thing when it was only 7 years old - you've never painted the inside of this house & it's 12 years old"

I said "It's too humid to paint" She, wise in her years said, "that doesn't apply to latex".

I asked where the brushes & rollers were. Lost another round.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 15 2007, 09:42 PM

here is this years canoe... kicked some ass. its going to nationals

Posted by: Twystd1 Apr 15 2007, 09:48 PM

Light weight concrete made of concrete mix, vermiculite, and long strand fiberglass. Lighter than ply wood... Gets harder and stronger the longer it sits in water..

Neat stuff....

Clayton

Posted by: Grimstead Apr 15 2007, 10:23 PM

Good Job!

Posted by: jd74914 Apr 15 2007, 10:32 PM

Very cool . . . I sat here building robots for one of my ME classes, being outside would have been so much nicer

Posted by: swood Apr 15 2007, 10:50 PM

Way to go Bubba.

Is that Library Walk at UCSD?

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 15 2007, 10:59 PM

good eye stevo......

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Apr 16 2007, 12:12 AM

Hey Aaron, looks like you had fun. Congrats on the second place win.

Posted by: TonyAKAVW Apr 16 2007, 12:31 AM

The double-E in me is tapping his fingers together and maniacally laughing/saying "Ahh, yes, the civil engineers have constructed yet another target."

And boy do I recognize the background in those pictures. Library Walk at UCSD, adjacent to the Price Center, the Geisel Library, and the geometrically correct grove of trees... which is really fun to ride your bike through at top speed.

-Tony

Posted by: swood Apr 16 2007, 12:39 AM

Not to hijack, but I knew that cause I "borrowed" some of that themed paving for one of my recent projects. Pete Walker is a pretty talented dude these days.

http://www.pwpla.com/prj_project.php?prjid=49


Now I'm hijacking (and playing my version of 7 degrees of separation from...) ...I've been scouring our archives here looking for photos of the club run that had an awesome picture near this one of Pete Walkers projects. Post the pics or link here please....

http://www.pwpla.com/prj_project.php?prjid=37

Posted by: balljoint Apr 16 2007, 09:20 AM

Aaron,

What are the long term CivEng plans? One of my best friends (and former 914 owner) just finished his Doctorate in Coastal Construction Technology at UBC. My wife, ChemEng, just finished her MBA. My father, just retired, is an Electrical Engineer. Pretty much everyone I know is a friggin' Engineer and they have a massive range of careers. Lots to choose from, any ideas yet?

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 16 2007, 12:21 PM

long term? who knows....

i love the geospatial/geotechnical aspects of CE. so i would love to do land development stuff.

and... in all my hungover glory.... the worst concrete bowling ball bowler there is LOL

Posted by: Eric_Shea Apr 16 2007, 12:24 PM

Did your fat ass get in that canoe?

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 16 2007, 12:26 PM

no. we had strongman midgets to that.

Posted by: swood Apr 16 2007, 09:18 PM

it's 30 miles from DFW Airport...IBM Solana is the name of the project.

Maybe this photo will help ID the fun run where the 914s were photographed wrapped around this round stone feature.


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Posted by: Spoke Apr 16 2007, 09:34 PM

How heavy is the concrete bowling ball? I wonder if the other team would notice if I showed up with one of those??

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 17 2007, 02:13 AM

13 lbs.

Posted by: Crazyhippy Apr 17 2007, 02:18 AM

Didya paint #'s on your heals? Might have helped your game...

LOL
BJH

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 17 2007, 11:26 AM

no numbers... just FUQ SLO on the heals

Posted by: grantsfo Apr 17 2007, 12:09 PM

My favorite cement boat.

Then:




...and now:

Posted by: Eric_Shea Apr 17 2007, 03:26 PM

Here's mine...

Dad served on her out of Aplena Michigan:




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