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Soon-to-be engineers work with Remembrance Foundation to design downtown Anchorage landmark By: Staff Apr 25, 2008 Outdoor memorial park will display historic U.S. artifacts
ANCHORAGE, AK – Thirty graduating civil engineering students from UAA’s School of Engineering are putting the final touches on their schematic design for the development of a new outdoor display in the “Butress” area of downtown Anchorage that will feature a number of historic U.S. artifacts. Working together as a team, the class acts as an engineering consulting firm to design a system for a real client. The class will present their senior project on Saturday, May 3 at 9 a.m. in Rasmuson Hall, room 101. The presentation is open to the public.
Mr. Bob Halcro and the Remembrance Foundation sought UAA’s help in the preliminary planning and design of the proposed outdoor park, situated near the Anchorage Market & Festival in downtown Anchorage. Students have prepared a plan that includes 13 sites to house historic U.S. artifacts including a rock from the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts where the pilgrims landed; steel from the battleship Arizona that was attacked in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941; a large piece of remnant steel from the World Trade Center destroyed Sept. 11, 2001; and an exact replica of the original Liberty Bell.
The course, Design of Engineering Systems (CE 438), is designed to provide graduating seniors with the opportunity to develop a real-life project for a real client in order to provide them with design and office procedure experience. Throughout the class, students work together to plan work execution, perform design, schedule construction, analyze the project’s economic and environmental impact, and conduct life cycle costing.
“This project allows students to get a taste of what working in the field will be like,” said Bart Quimby, UAA Civil Engineering professor. “This class changes students’ mindsets and helps define their thinking, making it easier for them to transition into the working world.”
For information on the project, call Professor T. Bart Quimby at (907) 786-1046 or visit http://soe.uaa.alaska.edu/soe/courses/ce438/.
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