The University of Macau team
澳門大學代表隊
The 5th National College Students Structure Design Contest has been successfully held in Southeast University in Nanjing, China from 20th to 24th October, 2011. The team from University of Macau rewards several accomplishments, including Distinguished Structure Award, Distinguished Organized Award, and Outstanding Performance Award of Specially Invited Campus, This contest gathered 73 teams from campus in mainland, as well as countries and areas abroad.
The National University Students Structure Design Contest, mainly hosted by the Education Ministry and the Civil Engineering Association of China, is regarded as one of the most innovative and challenging professional contest among the nine national university student contests recognized by the Education Ministry of China, aiming to establish a communicative platform for arousing spirits of creative thinking, together with realistic practice, so as to cultivate excellent and competent engineers in various fields in the future. Each team from mainland China was the selected best team inside their campus through intensive competitions to represent their university and well prepared at home with high attention and great support from their university because it is an opportunity to show the students’ strength of each university at national level.
The topic of the contest this year, provided by Southeast University is to fabricate a four-storey tower with one meter height within 24 hours separated in six sections. In place of traditional wood structure, bamboo, extreme tiny layer with high tensile properties, is employed this year. During the testing, each team representative has to put pre-designed weights on various storeys with a water tank on the top. Then three progressive earthquake waves was input at the bottom plate which is connected to the tower. After the terrible strong Tangshan Earthquake, as well as the Sichuan earthquake and Japan earthquake in recent years, Southeast University introduced this contest topic so as to arouse the concern and creative mind about earthquake in the fields of structure from undergraduate students. At the ending speech, the host expressed its pleasure about the high level of innovation and breakthrough of the distinguished models.
On the other hands, the Structure Design Contest has gradually stepped into an international contest and it was the first time to invite campus from countries and areas beyond mainland China. Besides University of Macau, the University of Tennessee from America, Meijo University from Japan and National Taiwan University were specially invited to participate in the contest.
It is the fourth time for the University of Macau to participant in the competition. The representing team of University of Macau was consisted of two senior students Steve, Cheok Meng Fai and Thomas, Jiang Chuanglong, and one sophomore student Brian, Lee majored in Civil and Environmental Engineering of Faculty of Science and Technology, leaded by Prof. Er Guokang and Dr. Lam Chi Chiu. After a series of preparation including model simulation, fabrication and numerical analysis inside the campus for nearly one and a half months, the team eventually successfully overcame the challenge of earthquake and received three awards with the stiff and steady structure model.
The representative students said, through a series of emerging ideas, analysis, birth of the preliminary model, together with continuous skill sharpening and process improvement, the final model eventually passed through the test and received admiration. After learning and communication with elites from various campuses, the students were enlightened by their top skills and innovation in view of structure.
本校科技學院土木工程學系學生於十月二十日至二十四日一連四日參加了第五屆全國大學生結構設計競賽並榮獲多個獎項，包括特邀高校傑出獎、優秀組織獎及優秀結構獎。此次比賽聚集了七十三支內地高校以及海外國家及地區代表隊，在位處六朝古都南京的東南大學進行了激烈對賽。
全國大學生結構設計競賽是由中國教育部、住房和城鄉建設部、中國土木工程學會主辦，富有創造性及挑戰性的專業競賽，為中國教育部確定的全國性九大賽事之一。此競賽匯集土木工程及相關專業學生開拓創新、務實跨越的精神，將理論知識結合到應用實踐，為不同高校之精英建立了交流學習，相互提高的領域平臺，從而培養具優秀素質能力的未來工程師。來自內地各高校的參賽隊均是在校內經多輪選拔出來的第一名。只有土木工程專業達到一定標準的內地高校才能派隊參賽。因為這項賽事是各高校向教育部和全國高校展示本校學生勢力的機會，所以各高校對參賽的準備工作都非常重視。
此屆比賽題目由東南大學提供，以極為纖幼而高韌性之竹皮及502膠水為製作材料，要求比賽隊伍於六回合共二十四小時內按大會規章要求，構建樓高一米，四層的高塔。測試過程中將於各層樓面放置自行安排之砝碼，以及放置一盛水水箱於樓頂，並於底層連接輸入三級遞進式地震波作測試。繼慘絕人寰的唐山大地震後，近年來汶川大地震和日本大地震帶來的災害依然歷歷在目，故此東南大學提出是次題目來喚醒大學生對防震抗震之關注及創新意念。於大會閉幕演講上，各專家都表揚不少比賽作品具深層次之創新性和突破性。
此外，此結構設計競賽逐漸從全國性邁步至國際型大賽，本屆為首次邀請海外國家及地區參賽，除本校澳門大學外，同時迎來美國田納西大學、日本名城大學及台灣大學的參予。
本次為澳門大學第四次參賽，由科技學院土木工程學系大四學生卓明輝，蔣闖隆和大二學生李家豪作代表，鄂國康教授和林智超博士領隊出賽。經過近個半月校內進行的理念分析、製作籌備以及計算優化，本校代表隊最終以堅固而穩定的結構，成功通過地震波的挑戰，於掌聲中獲取三個獎項。
本校參賽學生表示, 通過一連串的意念併發，分析整理，到結構雛型的誕生，經過不斷的手工磨練和進作情序優化，比賽模型終於成功通過測試。於東南大學觀摩各地精英頂尖的技巧和創新的意念，更令參賽代表對結構分析得到深層次的啓發。