I hope nobody got lost on route to the field trip destination, because you missed a pretty sweet space!  Those who did make it to the meeting this week got a great experience to tour a project under construction.  Clune Construction is currently working on wrapping up the interior construction of Doblin at 111 South […]

OMG LEGOS.  I seriously love Lego’s – they’re the best.  But I’m getting ahead of myself – we met at the Arcadis office and got to experience yet another piece of the ACE pie.  While I continue to hound Paul for a copy of the owner’s rep presentation, the job of the owner’s rep is

I never knew that dots and spaghetti were basically resistant to earthquakes, but then again, you learn something new every day.  We had a full meeting last week and got to learn about some delicious barbeque structural engineering!  Jean Claude van Damme taught us about some of the structural basics like types of structure:  concrete,

I fell asleep after eating turkey and forgot to post the blog.  To be honest, I don’t remember much of the last week – I guess that’s what happens when you eat an entire 20 lb. turkey by yourself.  And yes, I have sent a message to Joey Chesnutt challenging him to a Thanksgiving meal

You guys should seriously just quit ACE now and just go design hats.  For real.  Without much of an introduction for this week (my blabbing will just distract from the coif-keepers), I present the work of the week 2 gathering, with a special shout-out to the winners of design competition: Best Topper Design: Rainbow Lion

I told Yao that ACE would not turn into volleyball season.  I may or may not have intentionally missed every single volleyball game for the VOA work league because I’m tragically awful at volleyball.  And here I go, missing (quite unintentionally) the first real ACE meeting of the season!  Nevertheless – I got a great

This Monday, November 11th is the IIT Field trip.  You can still register at : http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/vis Details: When: Nov. 11 9:45 AM- 3:00 PM  Where: 10 W. 33rd st. Perlstien Hall This is a great opportunity to see a campus!

It’s that time of the year again people!  No, I’m not talking about National Cat Day, which just so happens to be today also, it’s time for ACE to begin again!  For those of you who were lucky enough to attend, our kickoff meeting at Jones College Prep, we met the team, learned a little

Hi Teams 1, 2, and 3: Happy Holidays!! Hope things are going great for you and for your teams. Before you break we wanted to send you information on the Chicago Scholars program application process and ask that you give it to the relevant students on your team. Briefly, Chicago Scholars is an organization that

Week 6 task was to design, build and manger a project from the ground up. Given a certain budget and a list of materials at a cost, students built and designed a structure that would fit a 6″ x 11″ x 4″ dimension to support a pop can on top.  It turned out to be