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Concrete canoe contest floats her boat

Students get creative at ASCE's 28th design-build-race competition ASCE's Leslie Payne measures a canoe built by students at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.Photo: American Society of Civil Engineers A summer weekend spent with hundreds of engineers might sound boring to some people, but not to Leslie Payne—and especially not when the "America's Cup of Civil Engineering" is at stake. Payne, as the director of student and younger member programs at the American Society of Civil Engineers, is the staff lead for the ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition. Students from 22 colleges converged at Clemson University in South Carolina June 20-22 for the finals. "The… Read More