This week during lab our group learned the main aspects of the bridge design competition and what is expected of us. The competition is to be conducted to see who can build the best truss design for a bridge that is only supported at two spots and able to hold the most weight until failure. This week we were successfully able to register for the West Point Bridge Design competition and were able to make this blog. Next week, our group will begin to work on starting our design for the WPBD competition. Issues we are going to face is creating a design that will be strong enough to hold a load while being light and compact at the same time. Some issues that may arise that relate to teamwork is properly disturbing work which can easily be addressed by identifying what has to be done and then equally separating the work. As each member is going to initially create there own bridge design, it will be hard to come to a compromise on which design is best to use. I believe we can fix this by using the information that was collected and use this to determine the best aspects that will help the overall design of our truss bridge.

Robert Weldon, Group 10