CCNY's Concrete Canoe team with "Ringgold" at the 2019 Metropolitan regional competition.
Going back more than two decades now, student engineers from The City College of New York have proven adept at helping debunk the common belief that concrete always sinks in water. CCNY’s third place overall finish at the 2019 Concrete Canoe Metropolitan regional competition at Cook's Pond in Denville, New Jersey, is another testimony.
Debuting “Ringgold,” the latest concrete canoe to roll off the Grove School of Engineering assembly line, the CCNY team competed against 10 institutions. New York University took first place.
At 304 pounds, “Ringgold” came in 30 pounds lighter than its 2018 predecessor “Cosmos,” also proving that the concrete canoe can be made lighter. They did that by utilizing smaller size shale and poraver (expanded glass), which are aggregates.
“Ringgold” is named after Faith Ringgold, the noted artist, writer and CCNY alumna (Class of 1955).
This is how CCNY fared in the different categories at Cook's Pond:
- Design Paper - 3rd place;
- Oral Presentation - 8th place;
- Final Product - 2nd place;
- Women's Final Sprints - 8th place;
- Men's Final Sprints - 6th place;
- Coed Final Sprint - 3rd place;
- Overall - 3rd place.
The CCNY Concrete Canoe team comprised (all civil engineering unless noted):
- Jack Baumann (mechanical engineering);
- Briana Chase (economics);
- Jimmy Chen;
- Ethan Chiu;
- Jeffrey Dou;
- Elaine Famutimi (environmental engineering);
- Amanda Garcia;
- Jan Kazimierczuk;
- Dimitris Koutoumbas;
- Andrea Limon;
- Bryant Ling;
- Jeffrey Liu;
- Jean Luc Antoine;
- Michelle Napolitano;
- Anthony Nuccio;
- Denzel Phillip (environmental engineering);
- Jonathan VanSleet;
- Xinyan Wang; and
- Xu Xinbin.
About the Grove School of Engineering
CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering celebrates a century of educating engineers this year. Originally established as the School of Technology in 1919, it evolved to the School of Engineering in 1962 and was renamed The Grove School of Engineering in 2005 in honor of alumnus Andrew S. Grove, whose $26 million gift to the institution that year is the largest in CCNY’s history. A distinguished member of CCNY’s Class of 1960, Grove was a founder and former chairman of Intel Corp, one of the world’s leading producers of semiconductor chips. Today, the Grove School remains the only public school of engineering in the heart of New York City.
About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its role at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.2% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight professional schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.