The ASCE Upstate New York Regional Conference is one of
many conferences hosted throughout the nation.
The annual regional conference is a very important tool
for students as they mature through college. Students
come to the conference for two main reasons: the steel
bridge and concrete canoe competitions, which
showcase the hard work and effort that students put into
their masterpieces.
There
is an underlying purpose that most competitors do not
realize is part of the competition: the conference
is a venue through which the competitors can come together
to realize and expand their knowledge of civil
engineering. The bridge and canoe competitions are merely
the platforms on which the learning and growth
take place. Students not only grow to understand the
characteristics of steel and concrete, but they
inadvertently develop project management, budgeting,
organizational and communication skills.
When
all the bridges are built and all the canoe races are
over, the students can get together and share their
experiences. They learn about the problems other schools
faced throughout the year, how they solved them,
and the lessons they learned with their solution. This
short time together teaches the competitors how much
engineers rely on each other for information to stay
current with today's engineering practices.
The
last thing this conference does is it reminds us that
our field should be fun. If you're not having fun with
what you're doing, it's not worth doing. Please, enjoy
the 2007 Upstate New York Regional Conference at
Cornell University!
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