About Us

The student-led Steel Bridge at UCI project forms part of an inter-collegiate competition, hosted by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), that challenges students to design, fabricate, and construct a model steel bridge. This technical project serves as a way for civil engineering students to demonstrate their critical thinking skills, work collaboratively with others, and implement their engineering knowledge to achieve a common goal of completing a large scale bridge. By utilizing basic tools that range from angled grinders to CAD to building techniques and methods, the Steel Bridge at UCI team aims to provide students with hands-on engineering experience that supplements the technical lessons learned from university to help them develop into professional engineers.