This multi-pronged project will enable Auburn’s residents and local businesses to connect with each other. Students will develop a website and mobile application to gain information about local businesses and buy products and services. The project will also include a marketing component, helping local businesses to better advertise to a wider audience. In the fall […]
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This group’s analysis of the W. Alisal corridor was conducted under the context of the implementation of a road diet. For the study of the Salinas roadway we took several factors into consideration when conducting a road diet and mapped the plausible effects of the infrastructure improvement in a causal loop diagram. Then diagram was […]
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This initiative is an effort to reduce water pollution that results in the closure of shellfish harvest in Samish Bay. In Assessment, Evaluation and Research in Environmental Education, a course taught by Dr. Gene Myers, a student project team researched strategies for motivating and sustaining behavioral change to support this initiative. (ENVS 588, fall 2017) […]
This interdisciplinary design studio focused on scenarios for multi-story, multi-unit transit oriented development for the 4.4 acre site, located across from Gresham Crossing in Gresham, OR. The studio program consisted largely of compact residential apartments and shared outdoor spaces that provide value for people and nonhuman inhabitants. This studio ultimately demonstrated that vibrant, dense development […]
This is a proposed multifamily apartment building targeted towards young professionals, low-income families and students attending DCTC who are looking to live and work in Rosemount, MN. The city of Rosemount encourages the development of lifecycle housing within its city limits and according to the Rosemount comprehensive plan, multifamily housing is one approach to providing […]
This is part of a year-long engagement with this project. During the fall quarter, students will identify and summarize available data to help describe Auburn’s 5 neighborhoods. Students will conduct stakeholder interviews, and will identify aspects of shared identity and diversity. Students will create a community profile of each of Auburn’s 5 neighborhoods to support […]
This course is designed to assess the health needs and provisions for GruetliLaager, Tennessee that will facilitate aging in place. This plan is meant to aid in the development of a future aging in place best practices plan. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines aging in place as “the ability to live in […]
This course was comprised of three major exercises: the design of a light modulating screen; the design of a sun shading device for Gresham City Hall’s west-facing facade; and the design of a light rail station at Civic Drive and Rockwood Station. This report describes in detail all three projects and includes samples of student […]
This course will conduct a situation analysis of Auburn residents’ understanding of the risks of natural and man-made disasters, and propose policy and program interventions to improve disaster preparedness. Proposals will include policy and programs that address both individual and community-level components as well as best practices in relation to cultural competence. Read the final […]
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This course will employ UTK’s watershed group to develop recommendations that will improve physical, chemical, and biological health of impaired water bodies in the region. Students should identify best management practices to reduce nonpoint pollution and improve watershed health across a diverse range of geographic conditions. Staff has long advocated for improvements in stormwater planning […]