Engineering students will race their concrete canoes this weekend

March 26, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 2015

CONTACT
Robert White
Media Relations/Communications Coordinator
(513) 569-4775 (office)
(859) 468-6640 (cell)
robert.white@cincinnatistate.edu

Civil engineering students from Cincinnati State, the University of Cincinnati and 11 other colleges and
universities will be competing this weekend to see who is best at designing – and building, and using –
things like concrete canoes, bats and horseshoes.

The 2015 Ohio Valley Student Conference, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) student chapters at UC and Cincinnati State, will feature a series of competitions Friday and
Saturday (March 27 and 28) at Hidden Valley Lake, the Lawrenceburg Convention Center and Ivy Tech
Community College.

The competition will put students from Cincinnati State’s two-year programs against their colleagues from
some of the most prestigious engineering schools in the Midwest. In addition to UC, the list of participants
includes the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Western Kentucky University, University of
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Geneva College, University of Dayton, The Ohio State University,
Ohio University, University of Akron, Youngstown State University, and Cleveland State University.

The list of events – which typically require students to not only design their entries, but also to execute
and then operate them during the competition – includes:

 Concrete canoe
 Concrete horseshoes
 Concrete baseball bat
 Balsa wood bridge building
 Geotechnical (soils)
 Land surveying
 Steel bridge
 Civil site design (AutoCAD), environmental, and technical (engineering ethics) paper
competitions.

For more information about the event please visit https://sites.google.com/site/ovsc2015/home
The competitions are open to the public. Media coverage is welcome. For information during the event,
please contact Carol Morman, Civil Engineering Technology Program Chair at Cincinnati State, at (513)
512-4251 or carol.morman@cincinnatistate.edu.

ABOUT CINCINNATI STATE
Cincinnati State (www.cincinnatistate.edu) enrolls about 10,600 students and offers more than 130
associate degree and certificate programs in business technologies, health and public safety, engineering
technologies, humanities and sciences and information technologies. Cincinnati State has one of the
most comprehensive co-op programs among two-year colleges in the U.S.

2015 Ohio Valley Student Conference
Thursday, March 26 – Saturday, March 28, 2015
Schedule of Events

Thursday
2 pm – 4:30 pm Concrete Canoe Paper Presentations Lawrenceburg Convention Center
Friday
8 am – 10 am Concrete Canoe Set-up Hidden Valley Lake Beach
8:30 am – 2 pm Surveying Competition Hidden Valley Lake Ball fields
9 am – 12 pm Balsa Wood Bridge Hidden Valley Lake
9 am – 12 pm Geotechnical Competition Hidden Valley Lake
10 am – 12 pm Concrete Canoe Aesthetic Judging Hidden Valley Lake Beach
12 pm – 4 pm Concrete Canoe Racing Hidden Valley Lake
6 pm – ? Concrete Bat Competition Willie’s Ballfield @ Hidden Valley Lake
7 pm – ? Concrete Horseshoe Competition Willie’s @ Hidden Valley Lake

Saturday
8:30 am – 12 pm Environmental Competition Ivy Tech Community College
9 am – 12 pm AutoCAD Competition Ivy Tech Community College
10 am – 11 am Technical Paper Lawrenceburg Convention Center
7:30 am – 4 pm Steel Bridge Competition Lawrenceburg Convention Center
1 pm – 2 pm Balsa Wood Bridge Judging Lawrenceburg Convention Center
Swamp Test Directly After Aesthetic Judging

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