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Article: They Are the Champions, Concrete Canoe Champions, That Is.
- Article from:
- Engineering Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Despite the clouds, thunder and occasional lightning, the event being held yesterday at Tuscaloosa's Lake Nicol looked like an ordinary canoe race. The canoes these competitors were racing were far from ordinary, though; in fact, the competitors themselves were anything but typical. They were civil engineering students from across the United States and Canada, and the canoes they were racing are made of concrete.
With equal parts technical skill, creativity and determination, the University of California, Berkeley captured the 'America's Cup of Civil Engineering' yesterday at the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) 22nd Annual National Concrete Canoe ...
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