Committed to bridging the gap in STEM and reaching historically underserved populations, the Whitacre College of Engineering Tea is an event for 3rd and 4th grade students and their families, developed to increase each child’s self-efficacy in their STEM skills and create an interest in STEM fields of study and careers. Along with hands-on activities […]
Academic Year Project Started: 2019-2020
The Foundations of New York: Closing the Soil Loop from One Borough to Another
A City agency practitioner working on a large New York City infrastructure project requiring the importation of significant amounts of soil approached Town+Gown:NYC with a project idea about how to communicate, to the public, that re-use of soil excavated from other City projects would not only be environmentally good, but also safe. Around that time, […]
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Lifecycle Cost Benefit Analysis Project- Road to Smart City
The utilidor is an environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructural solution for subsurface public right of way (PROW) congestion, known as the “subsurface spaghetti” problem, that has been created by utilities’ historical ad hoc practice of direct subsurface burial of transmission infrastructure. With the appropriate financial structure, the utilidor solution can capture the value of the […]
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Tech Terrace Mural Project
In 2019, at a Tech Terrace Neighborhood Association meeting, it was brought to attention that the Lubbock Power & Light substation on Elgin Avenue created an unpleasant eyesore. After consulting with city officials, it was decided that a mural could be painted on the walls surrounding the building. Professor Andrew Martin of the TTU School […]