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Student engineers place third in national competition

Cal State Long Beach’s Construction Engineering Management Design/ Build Team closed out this semester’s competition season by placing third at the Associate General Contractors National Student Championships.

The team competed against six other regional champion schools from across the nation. The team trailed the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Clemson University.

At nationals, teams were asked to develop a project solution with a full estimate, schedule and logistics plan for the proposed Colorado History Center in downtown Denver.

Similar to the format of the regional competition, each team was presented a problem at 6 a.m. Teams then had 18 hours to compose and submit a complete proposal.

“We were going for the first,” team member Dustin House said. “We came up short though and took third because of the number of architects on the judging panel turned the competition into more of a design competition as opposed to a construction management competition.”

Scott Moiser said the most important part of the competition was the experience.

“Although we fell slightly short of our primary goal of bringing back a national championship to the Beach, the experience was one to be remembered for ages,” Mosier said. “The chemistry amongst the involved team members was that to be rivaled by any actual real life company. And just like a real life company we didn’t get the job [or lost the competition] because the owner [or the judges] weren’t buying what we were selling.”

Construction engineering management students House, Mosier, John Hallgarth, Nicholas Tasich, Alec Grassel, Jeffrey Goodermote and alternate Ismar Ibrahimpasic worked long and hard to get to nationals and were disappointed with third place.

“We were frustrated with third place,” Goodermote said. “But we still have a first place regional championship that no one can take away from us.”

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