Engineering students stay afloat in a concrete canoe

A team of engineering students from Temple participated in concrete canoe races on the Cooper River as part the Mid-Atlantic Student Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Teams worked on designing and building the canoes for months. Temple's canoe, Ha-Canoe-a-Matata (a play on the Lion King song), was the lightest in school history, at 200 pounds. "The thickness of the hull is less than one inch," said team captain Alixandria Lane, 21, a senior majoring in civil engineering. "It's all about proportioning and the type of aggregate you use."
April 18, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer