SCET students won the second prize in the 14th University Student Structural Design Competition
time: 2021-10-25

From October 13th to 17th 2021, the 14th National University Student Structural Design Competition of the Shanghai Construction Engineering Cup was held at Shanghai Jiaotong University. The contestants brought a wonderful competition with interesting and creative structural models.

Model made on site

The theme of this year’s competition is Design and Manufacture of Variable Parameter Bridge Structural Model. According to statistics, the competition secretariat of 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country organized a total of 550 colleges and universities and 1148 teams participated in the regional competition. After selection, a total of 112 teams from 111 colleges and universities across the country entered the national finals; among them, except the organizer has two teams, other colleges and universities have only one team. Our school's entry Concrete Heart Bridge was designed and produced by Li Tiantian, Du Wenjie, and Li Yongkang from the 2019 civil engineering major of the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, and guided by teachers such as Professors Chen Qingjun, Ji Jing, Wang Zhan, and He An, and Mr. Su Tu is responsible for the team leader and logistics.

The original intention of this competition title Variable Parameter Bridge Structural Model Design and Production is to guide students to pay attention to the selection of structural systems and the analysis and optimization of structural forces, to strengthen the guiding significance of theoretical knowledge for structural design, and to further strengthen experimental, theoretical and calculate the combination of the three aspects. This competition question is aimed at bridge structures that bear vertical static and moving loads. By adding some undetermined parameters to the competition question, it gives more flexibility to the competition question, and at the same time adds on-site design links, emphasizing the integration of outstanding engineers in the future.

Facing the challenge, the school leaders attach great importance to it, professional teachers give careful guidance, and the participating team members train hard. Under the guidance of the teacher, the participating team members worked steadily, worked together, constantly tested, modified, and optimized the selection, worked out a reasonable design plan, and finally passed the test of the provincial competition and rushed into the national competition. After 16.5 hours of on-site production, expert review, discussion, and defense, etc., our school's entry won the second prize in the country.

game in progress

Group photo of the instructor and the participating teams (from left to right: He An, Li Yongkang, Du Wenjie, Li Tiantian, Wang Zhan, Chen Qingjun)

According to the spirit of the National University Student Structural Design Competition Regulations and National University Student Structural Design Competition Implementation Rules and the spirit of related guiding documents,the competition was awarded to six teachers including Wang Zhan and Yuan Si Outstanding Contribution Award. Since 2008, Prof. Wang Zhan has been a member of the expert committee of the National University Student Structural Design Competition and has made great contributions to the popularization and development of the structural competition.

Teacher Wang Zhan won the Outstanding Contribution Award (third from left)

The National University Student Structural Design Competition is one of the nine national university student discipline competitions determined by the Ministry of Education.It is the highest level discipline competition for civil engineering discipline to cultivate university students' innovative spirit, team consciousness, and practical ability. It is known as the brightest pearl on the crown of civil engineering. The South China University of Technology has always attached great importance to the scientific and technological innovation of college students. With the attention of the leaders of the school and college and the strong support of the Academic Affairs Office, the Youth League Committee, and other departments, up to now, teachers and students of the South China University of Technology have participated in 14 sessions of the National University Student Structural Design Competition. It has won the first prize 7 times, the second prize 3 times, the third prize 2 times, the school excellent organization award 11 times, and the Guangdong Provincial Secretariat Excellent Organization Award 1 time, ranking among the top universities in the country. Since the National College Student Structural Design Competition was held in 2005, a total of 14 winners of the Outstanding Contribution Award of the National College Student Structural Design Competition have been selected, including 10 experts and 4 instructors. Teacher Chen Qingjun of our school won the Outstanding Contribution Award in 2019, and is the second instructor in the country to receive this honor. At present, our school is the university with the largest number of teachers who have won the Outstanding Contribution Award in the structural competition.

(Photo/Text/He An School of Civil Engineering and Transportation)

Attachment: The official video clip of this competition: https://v.qq.com/x/page/u33020bvw01.html