27th January 2018, a team of civil engineering students from THEi won the First Runner-up and the Best Presentation in the Student Model Building Competition organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

This competition is one of the signature events of Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) which encourages participants to utilize their engineering knowledge from books to construct a bridge model. The model would be tested according to the competition’s specifications and their load capacities would be compared.

Each team of students were given limited materials and time to build a model according to the pre-announced specifications. They were also required to present their engineering justification to the judging panel for consideration.