Lawrence Technological University

NCEES Engineering Education Award $10,000 winner

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Project: State Fair Transit Center

Participants

Students: Sidney LeMieux, Brendan Mahoney, Gabriel Iacobelli, Nicholas Betz, Milad Alesmail

Faculty: Dr. Nishantha Bandara, Dr. Keith Kowalkowski, Dr. Elin Jensen, Dr. Edmund Yuen, Dr. Ahmed Al-Bayati, Dr. Yifei Ma, Dr. Mena Bebawy

What value does a real-world project bring to students?

How do you decide what projects to work on?

How did this project prepare students for professional practice?

What advice do you have for other programs wanting to add similar collaborative projects to their curriculum?