As their most recent project, sixth-grade science students at Mountain Middle School built a bridge to somewhere – arriving very likely at a solid grasp of structural engineering, ratio, force and ...

Many of the 30 carefully and meticulously crafted balsa wood bridges ended up smashed and crushed in the 21st annual Balsa Wood Bridge Competition sponsored by the Student Construction Association at ...

Second-year students in the Northampton Community College architecture program spent weeks constructing bridges from balsa wood, knowing this day would come. They tested the limits of those bridges in ...

Dennis, Suzie, Big Bertha, The Baby Zebra, and Major Minor were some of the entries in the 22 nd annual Balsa Wood Bridge Competition sponsored by the Green Construction Group at the SUNY College of ...

Balsa wood by itself isn’t very strong. But used in the right design, it can withstand pounds of pressure. The students in Mike Johnson’s design classes at Kenowa Hills High School have been trying to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Area students will test their bridge design capabilities when they come to Purdue University for the annual Bridge Bust Competition. The event, now entering its 40th year, will ...

(Above) Rachel Blalock, a MoDOT design technician, increases the load on a balsa-wood bridge constructed by Notre Dame student Laura Schaefer for the seventh annual bridge building competition ...

A memento from Jan Metzger’s (BS ’81) time as an engineering student brings new meaning to the term “bridging the decades.” “Forty years ago, I was paired up with my classmate Rob Burgess (BS ’81) for ...