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 ...

MARTINSBURG – Central High School students who have physics class with teacher John Fitzpatrick got the opportunity to act as mechanical design engineers to design and build a balsa wood bridge to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nine engineering students from Alabama A & M University listened for a sign as someone called out the numbers. Ten . . . 20 . . . 25 . . . 30 . . . 35 . . . 36 ...

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 ...

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 ...