The Louisiana Tech University student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) notched two first-place wins and a third-place finish at the 2021 Deep South Conference.
The team won first place in the Sustainable Solutions Competition and with the Mead Paper, and third place in the Environmental Competition of the virtual conference.
After the 2020 competition was canceled due to the spread of COVID-19 last spring, the team was determined to make the 2021 season a successful one. When students returned to campus in the Fall 2020 Quarter, the team began developing strategies to compete in the upcoming 2021 ASCE competitions while practicing social distancing.
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A team representing Louisiana Tech University made up of student members of the American Society of Civil Engineers presented their design for the Sustainable Solutions Competition at the Deep South Conference. This competition requires participants to create a design for a sustainably constructed park that could be built on a college campus.
They later received news that they won first place in the Sustainable Solutions Competition and would get the opportunity to move on to the national level. The students representing Louisiana Tech are Lori Hawkins, Mathew Alvarez, Charity Durr, Rose Emery, and Amanda Gordon.
Katya Opel, a Civil Engineering graduate student, acted as conference chair for Louisiana Tech’s ASCE chapter this year. Her job duties included submitting all necessary forms on time in order for the events to actually happen. She also handled submitting the paper work for the Sustainable Solutions team to see if they move on to the next level in the competition.
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When Electrical Engineering senior Diego Segura Ibarra joined Louisiana Tech University in the Winter of 2018, he planned to earn an electrical engineering degree that would prepare him for a career in his dream field of integrated circuits. What he found was a community as invested in his success as he was.
Segura Ibarra learned about Louisiana Tech’s internationally renowned project-based engineering curricula through Study Union, an agency that helps place Colombian students in programs that will help them learn a second language. The organization placed his older brother in an independent institution in Boston where he could complete an ELS (English as a Second Language) program. A few years later when he was ready to join his brother in the U.S., Study Union connected him to the ELS program at Louisiana Tech where he could join a world-famous Electrical Engineering program afterward and his brother could study architecture.