Monthly Archives: April 2014

Misc. PSWC Events, PSWC

PSWC 2014 Day 1: Surveying

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Even though our surveying team was completely new this year, our 2014 Surveying team placed 7th in their competition!

  • The surveying competition was held in a… remote… area of campus.
  • Can you spot the surveyors?
  • Surveying team.
  • Captain Kelvin is the only one who’s done this before.
  • Lucy and Ben measure something.
  • Ben may or may not be confused about what he’s supposed to be doing.
  • Having fun surveying.
  • Measuring something.
Concrete Canoe, Environmental, Misc. PSWC Events, PSWC, Steel Bridge

Final PSWC 2014 Preparations

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All of our design teams are busy with last-minute preparations for PSWC 2014. We’re off to San Diego tonight, excited to compete!

  • Ben grinds down a piece of the steel bridge.
  • Ben grinds down a piece of the bridge.
  • The Steel Bridge team prepares to practice assembling their bridge.
  • The Steel Bridge team practices assembling their bridge.
  • Kelly holds the results of a failed concrete bowling ball test.
  • The Concrete Bowling Ball awaits its paint job.
  • The Environmental team’s system goes through a test run.
  • Cleaning the basement canoe area.
  • The space shuttle cut-away section, complete with cardinal red steel stands made from last year’s steel bridge.
  • Kelly and Lucy assemble the final product display table.
  • Admiring the completed canoe-staining.
  • DiSCovery II awaits its lettering.
  • Lucy applies a second coat of paint to the canoe letters.
  • Jake paints canoe letters.
  • Erin paints “Southern” onto the canoe.
  • Carefully painting lettering onto DiSCovery II.
  • Painting on the canoe & university name.
  • Erin paints lettering onto the canoe.
  • Touching up the canoe lettering.
  • Erin and Jessica discuss the status of the canoe finishing.
  • Jessica and Erin paint “DiSCovery II” onto the canoe.
  • Jessica carefully touches up the canoe lettering.
  • Painting lettering onto the canoe.
  • Removing a lettering stencil from the canoe.
  • Watching paint dry.
  • Touching up the canoe lettering.
  • Erin cuts out labels for the concrete aggregate samples for the display table.
  • Jessica goes into full-on artist mode while staining the canoe.
  • All of USC ASCE’s equipment and creations are safely packed into the U–Haul to head to San Diego.
  • WALL-E Looks over DiSCovery II and the rest of our gear in the U-Haul.