Cal Poly Steel Bridge

Cal Poly Steel Bridge placed 2nd at the 2013 PSWC placing 2nd in Construction Time, Economy, and Overall Bridge! Congratulations to the entire team for all their hard work. Also a shout out to the Cal Poly Concrete Canoe team for 1st place victory and invitation to nationals. Due the hard work of its members and conference coordinators, the Cal Poly SCE Chapter placed 1st overall at conference.



Over the next couple months the steel bridge team will continue to prepare for the national competition at the University of Washington in Seattle. We would like to thank our advisers Dr. Hall and Dr. Kasper as well as our loyal sponsors! We are always looking for additional team members, so feel free to come out and see what we are up to. No experience is needed. Email steelbridgecalpoly@gmail.com if you are interested.



 

The Team:

Senior Captains:
Trent Casillas- Fabrication Captain
Brent Clavin- Design Captain
Kari Johnson- Project Manager



Assistant Captains:
Alan Blevins
Shauna Kean
Phillipe Napaa
Demi Pacifuentes
Andrew Ricker
Alex Vlosky
Joey Wild



Special Thanks to:
Ashley Beschell
Patrick Haley
Dan Lister
James Myers
Garret Van Ruiten

Hey Team,

Hopefully everyone is doing well on their midterms! The design for this year’s bridge has been chosen. The steel for the bridge has been ordered and we are eagerly waiting for its arrival. We are currently making prototypes of possible connections for the bridge. We encourage you to design some connections and share them with us. Most importantly, when designing make sure that there are legal by this year’s rules.

Meetings are on Friday at 12 PM in 192-208, unless notified via email about cancellation.

The team is busy at work preparing for a new year! We are currently fundraising money in effort of reaching our goal of $20,000. We are also entering the design phase of this year’s bridge. The new rules have been out for a month and are different than last year, the biggest change of all being the connections on the bridge.


We look forward to having a great year and performing better than last year. If anyone is interested in becoming part of this year’s team, please contact Steel Bridge at steelbridgecalpoly@gmail.com and address it to our new project manager, Kari Johnson. NO experience is required!

Results

Cal Poly Steel Bridge finished 3rd in the nation out of 200 universities that participated in the Steel Bridge Competition. Our team won 2nd place for constructuction speed, 3rd place for Stiffness, and 3rd place in Economy. Thank you to our Advisors, Dr. Kasper and Professor Hall, and our great sponsors!



A special thanks to the senior captains for all your hardwork! As we pick our 2012-2013 senior captains and assistant captains, we look forward to continued success next year. Once again, we are always looking for help , and if you are interested in the team please email steelbridgecalpoly@gmail.com. No experience is needed. Good luck with finals everyone and have a great summer!

The Team:

Senior Captains:
Pat Haley- Fabrication Captain
Dan Lister- Fabrication Captain
James Myers- Design Captain
Garrett Van Ruiten- Project Manager



Assistant Captains:
Ashley Beschell
Alan Blevins
Trent Casillas
Shannon Cassidy
Brent Clavin
Shauna Kean
Demi Pacifuentes
Jeff Stallman

Nationals

The team is getting ready to leave for nationals this Wednesday the 23rd! We are all excited and ready to compete! Thank you to all of our sponsors, advisors, and everyone who helped get us to this point. We are very thankful and ready to compete for a national title!

PSWC 2012 Results

Cal Poly Steel Bridge swept the competition at the 2012 PSWC placing 1st in Stiffness, Construction Time, Weight, Efficiency, Display, Economy, and Overall Bridge! Congratulations to the entire team for all their hard work. Also a shout out to the Cal Poly Concrete Canoe team for 1st place victories in all categories of their competition. Due to these wins, a first place finish for the technical paper, and the hard work of its members and conference coordinators, the Cal Poly SCE Chapter placed 2nd overall at conference.



Over the next couple months the steel bridge team will continue to prepare for the national competition at Clemson University in South Carolina. We would like to thank our advisers Dr. Hall and Dr. Kasper as well as our loyal sponsors! We are always looking for additional team members, so feel free to come out and see what we are up to. No experience is needed. Email steelbridgecalpoly@gmail.com if you are interested.

The Team:

Senior Captains:
Pat Haley- Fabrication Captain
Dan Lister- Fabrication Captain
James Myers- Design Captain
Garrett Van Ruiten- Project Manager



Assistant Captains:
Ashley Beschell
Alan Blevins
Trent Casillas
Shannon Cassidy
Brent Clavin
Shauna Kean
Demi Pacifuentes
Jeff Stallman

The bridge is fabricated and we are practicing construction now! Thank you to all members who helped out with fabrication and design! Conference is right around the corner and the whole team is very excited. We are always looking to add dedicated team members, so please email us if you are interested. Remember fabrication experience is not necessary, just a passion to contribute to our innovative team. Good luck with finals and have a great rest of the quarter!

This Saturday, Feb. 4th starting at 12pm, we will have our first construction practice. We will be planning strategies for building the bridge and practice constructing last years bridge on the current river/cofferdam setup. This practice is open to the team and all interested SCE members.

Construction Team Tryouts

Who: All SCE Members

When: Saturday, January 21, 11am

Where: Hanger Machine Shop (Bldg 4), On the hill above parking lot H-12

What: The Steel Bridge Team is looking for competitive and energetic SCE members to join our construction team! Our construction crew will assemble the bridge under timed conditions at both the regional and national competitions. This is a great way to get involved with the team and score a trip to the regional conference, as well as nationals in Clemson, South Carolina! Make sure to wear comfortable shoes and clothes that you can run and move in. Tryouts will consist of building segments of last year’s bridge. Lunch will also be provided for all participants! If you have any questions, please contact Garrett Van Ruiten, gvanruit@calpoly.edu or email steelbridgecalpoly@gmail.com.

Note: You must have a ASCE number to be a part of the team. If you don’t know how to get a number, ask one of the SCE officers.

Hey Team,

Hope you had a great holiday break, now its school time and fun machine shop time, yay! Competition is bearing down on us, only 10 weeks left! This means a quarter of work left to build the bridge and practice construction. Regionals is right around the corner!

TEAM MEETINGS

We won’t be holding a team meeting this week while we are getting everyone’s schedules figured out. But expect to hear about one soon, from now on we will be meeting in the machine shop, that way we can hold a quick meeting while still staying productive.

THIS WEEK

Our first big work day is this Friday from 9am to 6pm in the Mustang 60 shop
This saturday we will also work from 9am to 6pm location to be determined.

If you can make it all day thats fine, you are all welcome to pop in and out at anytime, we can get you up to speed on what has happened in the last few weeks.

Hope to see you all soon!