FAU Announces Winners Of 2017 ASCE Southeast Student Conference

BOCA RATON, Fla., March 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Florida's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) team placed first overall at the 2017 ASCE Southeast Student Conference, hosted by Florida Atlantic University's Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering.

More than 1,000 students from 25 universities in the southeastern region of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and China, competed in the three-day event at FAU's Boca Raton campus and other nearby locations.

UF won 11 out of the 34 competitions to secure the top spot, followed by the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Kennesaw State University; the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; and FAU rounding out the top five.

"This conference was the largest of 14 national ASCE student conferences. The FAU students, faculty, staff and our industry partners are to be congratulated for its success," said Yan Yong, Ph.D., professor and chair of FAU's Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering. "We were pleased to see that all of the teams worked very hard to achieve their best performances, and every school took home at least one trophy."

ASCE is the nation's oldest engineering society and the largest publisher of civil engineering content in the world. Eighteen ASCE student conferences take place throughout the United States each spring to increase student awareness and interest in civil engineering.

For the full list of winners from the 2017 ASCE Southeast Student Conference, visit 2017asce.fau.edu. 

About FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science:

Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science is committed to providing accessible and responsive programs of education and research recognized nationally for their high quality. Course offerings are presented on-campus, off-campus, and through distance learning in bioengineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, geomatics engineering, mechanical engineering and ocean engineering. For more information about the college, please visit eng.fau.edu.

About Florida Atlantic University:

Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU's world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU's existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.

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