HOUGHTON--A team from Michigan Tech University won the North Central Regional Conference Cement Canoe Competition held recently at downstate Kent Lake in Kensington Metro Park near Southfield. MTU competed against seven other university teams during the competition.
The annual competition is sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Sara Kingsley, vice president of MTU's ASCE chapter, said the competition was divided into two categories--races and academics. The academics portion of the event included judging of each team's design paper, oral presentation, display, and final product.
Michigan Tech's winning entry, dubbed "Copper Country Cruiser," measured 19 feet, three inches in length and weighed 110 pounds. Twenty-five members of the MTU student ASCE chapter worked on the project.