Cinema Arts students will create a community promotional video for Manchester. […]
Academic Year Project Started: 2020-2021
Manchester – Early Stage Coach Road Relocation
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students developed a plan to close a section of road to accommodate local airport clearances, and designed a new section of road to reroute traffic. Manchester Municipal Airport is located at 1561 Early Stagecoach Road. Runway 18/36 runs perpendicular to Early Stagecoach Road, […]
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Manchester – Hero Hustle Film Project
Recent Cinema Arts grad Philip Rabalais teamed up with current film student Timmer Penny to create a short film documentary of the Hero Hustle, an annual event that takes place in Manchester Iowa. Enjoy the video below! […]
Manchester – Public Art Project
MFA students will design and install a public art piece for the Manchester community, driven by a process of public engagement so that the piece reflects the values, stories and/or identity of the community. […]
Manchester – Shelly Park Redevelopment
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students created designs for improvements to Manchester’s Shelly Park, a highly used amenity adjacent to the whitewater rafting course on the Maquoketa River. Shelly Park Redevelopment has a couple design challenges. The City of Manchester’s goal for the park redevelopment is to include […]
Manchester – Tree Inventory
As part of the ICIGO student organization within the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, students will conduct an on-site tree study and create a GIS-based digital inventory for city-owned trees in Manchester, Iowa. […]
Manchester – Waterway and Dry Run Remediation and Redevelopment / Plan for Displaced Households
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students designed stormwater infrastructure to minize flooding impacts in Manchester, particularly for structures newly identified as being in the floodplain after recent redrawing of maps. In 2015, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources conducted a map update of the City’s waterways along the […]
Manchester – West Delaware Community School District Marketing & Branding
Marketing students in the Tippie College of Business Marketing Institute developed a marketing strategy to promote the West Delaware County Community School District and to help stem recent open enrollment out of the district. The West Delaware County Community School District (West Delaware CCSD) is based in Manchester, Iowa and serves the communities of Dundee, […]
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Waterloo – Fire Rescue Risk Assessement
As part of the ICIGO student organization within the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, students used GIS to analyze risk factors and indicators of emergency management hotspots in Waterloo. Community Risk Reduction is defined as “a process to identify and prioritize local risks, followed by the integrated and strategic investment of resources (emergency response […]
Waterloo – Master Plan for former Edison School
Civil & Environmental Engineering students created a site development plan for the area around the former Edison Elementary school building. The City of Waterloo is considering alternatives for redevelopment of a site that was the location of the now-closed Edison Elementary School. One of the most important considerations for the project would be that it […]
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