CONCRETE CANOE

Rice Concrete Canoe is a student-run club that creates a functional concrete canoe to race and present at the yearly ASCE sponsored competition. Throughout the year, members gain engineering experience through the research, planning, and constructing of a concrete canoe. By offering members exposure to the engineering design process, small-group work, software such as Matlab and Adobe Illustrator (and possibly more starting this year), and laser cutters, Concrete Canoe offers a unique experience to students regardless of whether or not they want to become engineers... Since its inception in 2009, the Rice Concrete Canoe team has placed itself as a strong competitor within five short years of experience. Although the first foray into the ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition, the Titanic, sunk, we have since taken second and fourth place in the Texas-Mexico regional's with Revenge and Centurion. In 2013, 2014, and 2015 we continued this course with the Cloud, Horizon, and..

Primary location: Houston United States