Students must minimize structural weight without sacrificing safety and efficiency. Judges evaluate economy of construction based on how much time students need to assemble the bridge. The activity fosters educational excellence among the civil engineering programs at universities around the nation. Each team designs and builds a reduced scale bridge with a clear span of approximately four meters. AISC furnishes a general set of material specifications and geometric requirements.
Students have wide latitude in meeting the specifications.
For more information about the steel bridge competition or the winner team, contact the NJIT public relations department. Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, multimedia, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science.