South Dakota Mines Steel Bridge

We are thrilled to announce that we placed 2nd in all scoring categories, 1st in aesthetics, and 2nd overall at the Rocky Mountain Student Symposium this weekend! Thank you to our sponsors and everyone that helped the team this year. This wouldn’t have been possible without you. See you in El Paso!

Come support Steel Bridge, Concrete Canoe, and ASCE at competition this Friday! The Steel Bridge competition will be held in the Barnett Field House at The Monument. Aesthetics judging starts at 9:30 AM and construction will begin at 10:30 AM. South Dakota Mines will probably build around 3:00 PM.

We successfully completed a full load test yesterday! Here are a few pictures from the load test and fabrication.

We are going to be load testing our bridge starting at 3:00 PM MST today! It will be live streamed on our Facebook at the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/sdminessteelbridge

This week we competed in the KEEN Bridge Design Competition. The team was tasked with building a bridge spanning 36 inches out of paper and staples. Our bridge weighed 193 grams and held over 1500 grams. We had so much fun watching all of the teams compete and are looking forward to participating again next year.

Mason is a junior civil engineering student. He spent his summer interning with RS&H. When he’s not busy rock climbing, he can be found nerding out about board games or hiking.

Continuing with our meet the officers posts, Caleb Siegling is a junior civil engineering student from Fort Morgan, Colorado. He is a co-captain for Steel Bridge this year, and he is excited to help design and build this year’s bridge.

We took second place in the annual Pumpkin Chunkin’ competition! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this year’s trebuchet.

Welcome back to campus everyone! It’s time to meet the officers for 2025-2026. First up is Sam Burmeister. Sam is a junior civil engineering major. She spent her summer interning at Wildcat construction working on road construction. She likes to hike, run, and read, and she is very excited to be one of this year’s co-captains.

Our team competed at the National Competition in Ames, IA this past weekend and we had a blast. We scored 10th in construction speed, 19th in lightness, 13th in aesthetics, 7th in stiffness, 7th in cost estimation, 19th in construction economy, 5th in structural efficiency, and 18th overall. We could not have done it without the support of our team, families, and sponsors so thank you to all. We look forward to next year and anything the competition can throw at us!