Graduation Project students under the supervision of Dr. Ahmad Saad won the best project award for the Civil Engineering Department in the Australian College of Kuwait. Students in this project worked for two semesters on the design of a prototype pedestrian bridge of 20 meters long and the construction of a scaled model (one-tenth) of the same bridge. Students also instrumented some of the bridge members with strain gauges to be able to read member forces when load is applied on the bridge deck. They were able to accurately estimate pedestrian weights as they stood on the bridge during the Graduation Project Exhibition Ceremony on May 14th 2017 in the Crown Plaza Hotel in Kuwait.
Dr. Ahmad with the Students during a steel factory visit
Students during the steel factory tour
With the steel factory Engineer (Mr. Salah Solaiman) who helped the students with their project implementation
Students instrumenting the bridge members in the Civil Engineering Lab in ACK
Students testing the bridge and reading its forces before the Exhibition
Discussions with the German Ambassador Karlfried Bergner during the Project Exhibition (May 2017)
A Group Picture showing their work poster during the ACK Exhibition
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