Committee on National Concrete Canoe Competitions
The Committee on National Concrete Canoe Competitions (CNCCC) is composed of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) members who have primary responsibility of reviewing and establishing the rules for each year's competition. The CNCCC also assists students by providing clarifications of the rules, and assists regional competitions by supplying information to the regional hosts and judges. As part of the National Competition, the CNCCC assists the judges and the host school, and runs the events on race day.The CNCCC consists of eight ASCE volunteers who dedicate countless hours to this event. The committee members are educators and practitioners from across the nation who care a great deal about the competition and want to make it fun, challenging, interesting, and rewarding. Many past and present committee members have been involved in the concrete canoe competition as an advisor, competitor or judge. Four of these individuals are at-large members who serve four-year terms; two are corresponding members who serve one-year terms. A member from ASCE's Committee of Student Activities (CSA), who serves as the official contact person to the CSA, and an appointed staff member from Degussa Admixtures, Inc., also serve on the committee. ASCE also appoints a staff contact member who acts as a liaison between the CNCCC and ASCE.
The members of the CNCCC are:
Mike Carnivale (Chair and At-Large Member)Jan Olek (At-Large Member)Brad Putman (At-Large Member)Scott Rutledge (At-Large Member)Candy Ammerman (ASCE CSA Contact Member)Charles Nmai (Degussa Admixtures, Inc. Contact Member)Brian Clapp (Corresponding Member)Ruth Wong (ASCE Staff Contact)
Questions regarding rule interpretations prior to the National Competition should be directed via e-mail to the CNCCC by e-mailing cnccc@ermail.asce.org. Teams are encouraged to contact the CNCCC prior to implementing any radical changes in design or to avoid misinterpretation of rules at the Regional Competitions. Please note that only questions directed to cnccc@ermail.asce.org will receive an official response from the CNCCC.
Michael Carnivale, III, P.E. is a geotechnical engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers,
Philadelphia District specializing in dredged material facility design and management, beachfill operations, and foundation and
embankment design. A registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Mike is a graduate of Drexel University
(B.S.) and the University of Rhode Island (M.S) and is currently pursuing his doctorate in geotechnical engineering at Drexel.
He serves as a practitioner advisor to the Drexel ASCE Student Chapter and is an adjunct instructor teaching a course in
Foundation Engineering. Mike has been involved with the concrete canoe competition for nearly a decade participating as a
competitor, serving as a technical advisor, as well as spearheading the 2003 National Competition held in Philadelphia.
This is Mike's third year as a member of the CNCCC and second year as serving as its chair.
Brian Clapp, P.E, PMP is a lieutenant in the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps. He is currently assigned as a project manager at the White House Military Office. His previous assignment with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion SEVEN included two deployments to Iraq providing contingency construction support. Brian has a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and a Masters in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University. He has judged several regional competitions and was a national competition judge in 2002. This is Brian's second year as a corresponding member of CNCCC.
Ruth Wong is Coordinator of Student Services at the American Society of Civil Engineers.
In this capacity, Ruth works with and provides assistance to the Committee
on Student Activities, the Committee on Scholarships, and the 275 ASCE Student Chapters, Student Clubs and International
Student Groups. Ruth has a Bachelors degree from South Dakota University and a Masters degree in Structural Engineering
at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ruth is the ASCE appointed Staff Contact Member.
Scott Rutledge, P.E.,is the Land Development and Acquisitions Coordinator for the DFW-West Division of D.R. Horton Homes. Prior to joining D.R. Horton Homes, he spent three years designing single family residential subdivisions at Carter & Burgess in Fort Worth, Texas. Scott earned both his Bachelors degree and Masters degree at Oklahoma State University. During his time at Oklahoma State University the Cowboys reached four National Concrete Canoe Competitions finishing 2nd in 2000. Since finishing school, Scott has remained active in ASCE. He has been a judge for the Texas-New Mexico Region and is a member of the Fort Worth ASCE Branch. This is Scott's second year as a member of the CNCCC.
Candy Ammerman, P.E. is a Lecturer at Colorado School of Mines where she has taught in the Division
of Engineering for more than 20 years. Her areas of expertise include structural engineering and land surveying. Candy has
been the Faculty Advisor for the Colorado School of Mines' student chapter of ASCE for the past ten years and has been honored
as the Zone III Faculty Advisor of the Year for 2000, 2001 and 2002. She participated in the National Concrete Canoe Competition
as a judge in 1998 and as returning judge in 1999. Candy was the ASCE Faculty Advisor when the Mines' chapter hosted the 13th
Annual NCCC in Golden, Colorado. In addition to ASCE, she has served as the Faculty Advisor of Tau Beta Pi and is currently the
Faculty Advisor for the Mines' chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), listed as the 4th largest student chapter of SWE
in the nation.
Charles Nmai, Ph.D., P.E., FACI is Chief Engineer at Degussa Admixtures, Inc., where his
responsibilities include providing technical guidance and support in the areas of admixtures and high-performance concrete,
concrete durability, claims investigation and troubleshooting of concrete problems. A Purdue graduate and a licensed engineer
in Ohio, Charles is also a Fellow of ACI International and currently a member of the Education Activities Committee (EAC).
He instructs two ACI seminars, "Practical Concrete Materials for Concrete Designers and Specifiers" and "Troubleshooting
Concrete Construction." Charles was exposed to concrete canoes at the University of Kansas where he obtained his M.S. degree,
and was a judge at the National Competition in Fort Collins, CO. Charles is the Degussa appointed Staff Contact.
Jan Olek, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, where he has
been involved in research on properties of cement, concrete, aggregate; and supplementary cemetitious materials for a
number of years. Jan is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), past Chairman of ACI Committee 123 on Research
and Current Developments and TRB Committee A2E01 on Durability of Concrete and a former Associate Editor of the ASCE
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. He is currently a member of the ACI committee 211 Proportioning of Concrete
Mixtures, 231 Properties of Concrete at Early Ages, 234 Silica Fume in Concrete and 236 Material Science of Concrete.
This is Jan's third year as a member of the CNCCC.
