Call for Student Papers

The 23rd International Bridge Conference (IBC) is proud to sponsor a student paper competition. Papers are being solicited from students at every college and university in the United States offering a civil engineering major. The competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students. Papers should be submitted to the department chair at the applicant's school.

The department chair will select one finalist from the graduate and undergraduate levels and submit those to the International Bridge Conference Students Award Committee, which will make the final selections.

The author of the winning graduate paper will receive a $1,000 IBC fellowship from the conference, along with complimentary registration, hotel accommodations and travel to the 2006 International Bridge Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. The author of the winning undergraduate paper will receive a $250 IBC fellowship, along with complimentary one-day registration. Both winning papers will be eligible to be included in the published proceedings.

The IBC is the most comprehensive, broad-based and authoritative forum in the world on bridge topics. Its mission is to encourage and promote the interchange of information, procedures and techniques related to bridge projects among owners, researchers, practicing engineers, suppliers and contractors. For more information, visit http://www.eswp.com/bridge/student_aid_ bridge.htm.