Free App Developed by SIUE Engineering Students Featured in Engineering News-Record
SIUE School of Engineering students have combined with Mark Grinter and Anne Werner, assistant professors of construction in the School of Engineering, to develop an app that helps construction engineers avoid cracking from plastic concrete shrinkage.
Computer science seniors Bryan Allen, Daniel Grote and Zachary Smith created a publicly available tool useful to construction engineers. In their required two semester long senior assignment project, they were assigned to a client, Grinter and Werner.
“We knew what we wanted, but we’re not computer science programmers,” Grinter said. “So, we provided them with the framework and algorithms to drive the solution to make it happen. They wrote the code to make the system work. They effectively served as an entrepreneurial computer application company.”
Read about the Plastic Crack Risk Calculator in the Engineering News-Record, a leading industry trade journal.
Their goal now is to raise awareness about the app in the construction industry.
