Often referred to simply as "conference," the Pacific South-West Regional Conference (PSWRC) is an annual gathering of university students from civil engineering schools in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii. It provides a fun and friendly atmosphere for students to meet and interact, and it also provides a competitive environment for students to show off their analytical, creative, and even physical skills through various technical and athletic contests.
Four of the featured events at the conference are the steel bridge, concrete canoe, seismic design, and surveying competitions. Students spend many months of hard work preparing for these events, and the projects conclude by putting the students' design concepts to real-life tests in the form of actual bridge loading, concrete canoe races, shake table testing, and on-site field measurements.
Details from last year's conference will be posted soon as well as info on the upcoming trip to Hawaii.
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Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.