KU Steel Bridge Team

Team Purpose

The KU Steel Bridge Team strives to provide KU engineering students an opportunity to work and compete on a nationally competitive design team. Through strong involvement with the team, students can develop teamwork and communication skills necessary in the workplace, steel fabrication skills, CAD Design experience, structural engineering software experience, finance skills, fundraising and proposal writing skills, labor managing experience, motivational skills, and leadership experience. The dividends of experience with the KU Steel Bridge Team do not come without hard work as the team aims to represent well both the Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department as well as the entire School of Engineering on a national level alongside the nation’s elite engineering schools.

2013 NSSBC Photos and Videos: An accelerated video of KU’s construction at the 2013 National Student Steel Bridge Competition can be viewed on KUCEAE Facebook page.

2023-2024 Chapter Officers:

• President: Brian McGuire, mcguire.brianm@ku.edu
• Vice President: John Holt, john.holt@ku.edu
• Treasurer: Chinmoy Dev, cdev@ku.edu
• Social Media Manager: Emma Russin, erussin@ku.edu
• ESC Representative: Katie Kemper, katie.kemper@ku.edu

• Advisor: Caroline Bennett Ph.D. - crb@ku.edu
• Advisor: William Collins, Ph.D. - william.collins@ku.edu 

Contact Information:

The KU Steel Bridge Team may be reached at kusb@ku.edu. Also, please feel free to directly contact any of the team’s officers.

KU Steel Bridge Team

The University of Kansas

Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Dept.

2150 Learned Hall

1530 West 15th Street

Lawrence, KS 66045