Welcome All UH ASCE student chapter recap

The UH Manoa ASCE Student Chapter took 57 students and their faculty advisor, Dr. Oceana Francis, to participate in 10 technical and 7 non-technical events at the ASCE Pacific Southwest Symposium (PSWS) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona on April 3– April 5, 2025. The team placed 5th overall in the conference of 14 schools. The Steel Bridge team won top 5^th place overall at conference, including 1^st place in aesthetics, 2^nd place in cost estimation, 2^nd place in stiffness, 3^rd place in structural efficiency, and 3^rd place in lightness. The Prestressed Concrete Beam won 2^nd place. The concrete canoe team won 4^th place overall, including 4^th in technical report & presentation, 5^th in Final Product Prototype, 2^nd place in men’s sprints, 3^rd place in women’s sprint, and 2^nd place in Co-ed sprints. The mead technical paper placed 7^th in the Technical Paper competition, the Geowall event team placed 11^th, the Transportation Design event team placed 7^th, the Design Build Construction team placed 4^th, the Sustainability event team placed 5^th, Environmental Design team placed 6^th, the Surveying team placed 6^th, and Richard Scranton Community Service placed 7^th. In non-technical events, Flag football placed 3^rd, Corn hole place 4^th, Volleyball placed 5^th, Tug-of-War placed 6^th, Scavenger Hunt placed 7^th, Basketball placed 8^th, and Soccer placed 12^th.

The entire team worked very hard preparing for this annual conference and all were great competitors in Pomona, CA. The PSWS is the largest ASCE conference in the USA and the most competitive. The UHM Conference Co-Chairs were Kylie Trangn and John Mark Villanueva who worked tirelessly to ensure everything worked out well and everyone had a good time. The chapter was led in this past year by the following officers: President – Travis Nitta; Vice-President – Aaryk Iwamoto; Treasurer – Amier Ishaque; Recording Secretary – Zoe Fukuda-Seki and Corresponding Secretary – Dawn Nakamaru.

The Student Chapter is very grateful to the 30 companies, the College of Engineering, ASCE Hawaii Section, and UH Manoa SAPFB who together made donations/grants totaling over $40,000 to help enable the team to prepare for and participate in PSWS in Pomona, CA this year.

All committees including Community Service, Outreach, Social and Conference have achieved the goals. In addition, 4 current board members and faculty advisor Dr. Francis attended WSCL, a series of annual training sessions for ASCE student chapter leaders to network, share ideas, meet society leaders, and learn how to help their chapter succeed in San Diego, California on January 17-18, 2025.

ASCE Student Chapter will hold the first General Meeting on September 10, 2025 in Bilger 150 at 5:30PM, please RSVP here.
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