ASCE Concrete Canoe

The ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition provides students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on practical experience while testing their skills with concrete mix designs and project management challenges. The first ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition was held in 1988, but the history of Concrete Canoe goes back to the 1960s, when a small number of ASCE Student Chapters began holding intramural concrete canoe races. This elite competition combining engineering excellence, hydrodynamic design, and racing technique is known as the "America's Cup of Civil Engineering." The Capstone team will lead the design and oversee the construction of the BYU ASCE concrete canoe, which will compete in the 2023 Intermountain Southwest Student Symposium in Reno, NV. If the team wins that competition, they will be invited to compete in the national concrete canoe competition. Primary components of the competition include obtaining the new rules for 2023, submitting all the proper application forms/proposals, making a concrete mix design for the concrete canoe, designing the canoe itself and its aesthetics according to the rules, and overseeing the fabrication of the canoe using help from students in the Concrete Canoe Club and ASCE student chapter.