MARTINSBURG – Central High School students who have physics class with teacher John Fitzpatrick got the opportunity to act as mechanical design engineers to design and build a balsa wood bridge to ...

Jack Kayser, left, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, watches as the load increases on a modified arch balsa wood structure built by Chris Stamford, right, during a balsa wood ...

Second-year students in the Northampton Community College architecture program spent weeks constructing bridges from balsa wood, knowing this day would come. They tested the limits of those bridges in ...

A balsa wood bridge isn't something you'd want to drive your car over, but it can be a useful way to expose kids to engineering. The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program recently hosted ...

(Above) Rachel Blalock, a MoDOT design technician, increases the load on a balsa-wood bridge constructed by Notre Dame student Laura Schaefer for the seventh annual bridge building competition ...