May 19, 2025
Four members of the Thunder Aces, Trine University’s bridge club, will compete in the North American Bridge Championships, which will be held July 31-Aug. 2 in Philadelphia.
Team members Treyton Sederstrom, a senior actuarial science major from Cedar Lake, Indiana; Isaac Braun, a junior chemical engineering major from Portland, Indiana; Ryan Hoak, a senior civil engineering major from Warsaw, Indiana; and Ryan Sederstrom, a sophomore electrical engineering major from Cedar Lake, Indiana, will participate in the college team and college pairs matches.
Ryan Hoak and Ryan Sederstrom each won travel expense packages from the American Contract Bridge League for three nights’ lodging ($354), food ($200) and air transportation (up to $600). They won the packages by playing bridge online every day from March 15 through April 30.
Students and faculty from Trine University’s Reiners Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering traveled to the University of Notre Dame for the annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Indiana-Kentucky Student Symposium, with two Trine teams finishing in the top three of their respective events.
Taking the baton from last year’s team, five Trine University mechanical engineering seniors renewed their partnership with Dexter Axle’s Albion, Indiana, facility to complete a custom-built pallet squeezer—an industrial machine designed to realign heavy stacks of manufacturing pallets.
A team of Trine University chemical engineering seniors is addressing an operational challenge at Steel Dynamics La Farga Copperworks through their senior design project, developing a more efficient soot recovery system tailored to the facility’s expanding needs.