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University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Architecture and Design

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A Compilation of Student Work

2017

School of Architecture and Design (SOAD) College of the Arts University of Louisiana at Lafayette ® 421 E. Lewis Street Lafayette, LA 70503

Chief Editors, and Design Team Sarah Young and Adam Feld

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The data and opinions appearing in the articles herein are the responsibility of the contributors concerned.

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Flash Ideogram reflects the hard work and creativity of the faculty and students of the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ®. Highlighted work encompasses the School’s curriculum including the creative and energetic work found in the first year’s foundation studios. Upon completion of these studios, students separate into their chosen disciplines. The Architecture discipline is characterized by the imagination and tectonics of the making of buildings culminating with the thesis studio. The Industrial Design discipline highlights the playfulness of toys, the purpose and functionality of tools, while the transportation studio investigates all things that move including cars, boats and motorcycles and people. The Interior Design discipline explores the thoughtful and sensitive design of internal space, materials, textures and color.

Notable changes since the last publication of Flash Ideogram: 1) the School of Architecture and Design

received an eight-year reaccreditation by NAAB. This reaccreditation continues an unbroken accreditation status dating back to the school’s origins. 2) Fletcher Hall is in the process of a major renovation project.

When completed, the School will have additional studio and classroom space. 3) Over the last few years, several new faculty, added to the School’s experienced faculty base, have contributed to the continuation of the School’s traditions while bringing new insights and rigor to our pedagogy.

Faculty and students of the Architecture, Industrial Design and Interior Design programs are engaged in cross-disciplinary projects within the school and throughout different colleges on campus. For years, this research has been formalized and integrated into the Masters and Undergraduate Architecture studios and elective classes. These include the Building Institute which constructed, completed and dedicated the Gridshell on Camellia Boulevard in Lafayette, and the Community Design Workshop through the ARCH

Introduction written by: Thomas C. Sammons Director/School of Architecture and Design Professor/Director, Community Design Workshop Contractors Educational Trust Fund/BORSF Professor in Art and Architecture Introduction 502 Studio working with consultants including architects, planners, engineers and landscape architects to study the I-49 Corridor Connector Project being proposed to run through Lafayette. Graduate students are involved with the multi-disciplinary study of Louisiana wetlands though the Coastal Community Resilience Studio. In addition, there is continuing informal research happening in the undergraduate departments within studios, student organizations, and the pickup side investigations conducted by both faculty and students.

Undergraduate research included the NOMAS Chapter work in the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans that transformed an elevated highway that separated the neighborhoods. A collaborative design between the community and students for a memorial pavilion for Jillian Johnson created the Victory Garden on the outskirts of downtown Lafayette. The Interior Design Institute worked with the university to design a coffee bar at the student union and is

working on a re-creation for a 2/3 scale replica of former Governor Kathleen Blanco’s office for the library. Third-year Industrial Design students are participating in a collaborative project, “Design Research”, with the department of Communicative Disorders to develop products for stroke victims to lead a normal, daily life. UL Lafayette ™ faculty and students have been documenting significant Louisiana architecture for the state and the nation for over 40 years through the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Program, winning or placing in the Charles E. Peterson Prize several times.

A multidisciplinary collaborative work of Architecture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Media Arts, Theatre, and Dance for ArTech Fusion included an installation called “Hidden Gardens”, and was performed at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.

Research has enriched the educational experience of both students and faculty, and contributed to the built environment in our community, region, and state.

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The University has had course work in the arts since its inception. All arts courses were taught in the oldest college in the University, the College of Liberal Arts. While the Department of Art has a long history, its progression to the College of the Arts is tied inexorably with Architecture.

In 1949, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ® (then Southwestern Louisiana Institute) established a two-year pre- architecture program within the Department of Art. Demands to expand the architecture program were met with the addition of a third year in 1956. In 1957, the program title was changed from ‘Pre- Architecture’ to ‘Architecture,’ and the Department of Art became the Department of Art and Architecyure within the College of Liberal Arts. In 2001, the Board of Regents approved the conversion of the five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree to the four-year Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies degree and the Master of Architecture as the professional architecture degree. In 1974,

the School of Art and Architecture established an Interior Architecture prgram, and then renamed the program, Interior Design.

The School of Art and Architecture moved into Fletcher Hall in 1977. In 1983, the School of Art and Architecture attained the organizational status of a college. In 1986, the school’s departments were re-organized to include the departments of Architecture, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. The Board of Regents approved a new degree in the Department of Architecture - the Industrial Design degree – in 1994. In 1995, the School of Art and Architecture became the College of the Arts.

In 1996, the School of Architecture established a community outreach program – the Community Design Workshop (CDW). Moreover, the Community Design Workshop secured facilities in downtown Lafayette through Lafayette Consolidated Government in 2001. That same year, the School

History of Architecture was renamed the School of Architecture and Design to accurately reflect the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the three programs. The Board of Regents approved the conversion of the five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree to the four-year Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies degree and the Master of Architecture as the professional architecture degree. In 2002, the School of Architecture and Design established the Building Institute to give students hands-on construction experience. In 2003, the Interior Design program established the Facility Design Management Studio, and the Industrial Design program initiated The Transportation Studio in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Engineering and the Building Institute competed in the Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C. The competition submission -the BeauSoleil Housewon two awards, The People’s Choice Award and the Marketing Viability Award. In 2011, the School of Architecture and Design partnered with the School of Engineering, the Department of Sociology and the History Department to create the Coastal Sustainable Studio. The new lab is housed in Abdalla Hall.

The history of the College of the Arts and the School of Architecture and Design is a product of the ideas and goals of its faculty, students, administrators and alumni. It is rooted in the recognition of the needs and interests of the region and its students.

In 2006, the Interior Design, Industrial Design, Visual Arts and the School of Architecture and Design received continuing accreditation from NASAD after a successful accreditation site visit. In 2009, the School of Architecture and Design, the College of SOADideogram

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LAFAYETTE SCIENCE MUSEUM The Lafayette Science Museum has a permanent exhibition of student work from the School of Architecture and Design. You can visit this permanent exhibit anytime the museum is open. You can also visit our booth during the Lafayette Science Museum’s annual Steampunk and Makers Fair! This fall event showcases and celebrates science, education, technology, art, and mathematics in downtown Lafayette. For more information, visit www.soad.louisiana.edu

DESIGN DAY The School of Architecture and Design at UL Lafayette ™ presents Design Day once every semester for high school juniors and seniors who are interested in majoring in Interior Design, Industrial Design, or Architecture. Design Day gives you a chance to experience design school as a college student. It recreates the everyday studio environment in the School of Architecture and Design so you can get a feel for our dynamic and unique teaching and learning process. At Design Day, you’ll get a chance to meet faculty members and current students and learn what a major and career in design is really like.

We have two Design Days a year; they usually fall Saturday mornings, one in October and one in March. For more information, visit www.soad.louisiana.edu

Visit Us PREVIEW DAY For a more general look at all that UL has to offer, visit us for one of our Preview Days! Activities include an academic and extracurricular fair, information sessions on scholarships, TOPS, financial aid, honors, and housing, walking tours and bus tours of campus, and a chance to preview our academic colleges and majors and meet with faculty. Be sure to sign up to visit the School of Architecture and Design during your Preview Day visit! For more information, visit www.louisiana.edu/previewday

SUMMER DESIGN DISCOVERY CAMP So you’re thinking about becoming a designer?

Whether Architecture, Industrial Design, or Interior Design, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ®’s School of Architecture and Design, Summer Design Discovery Program offers high school students an introduction to the design professions. Our one-week program provides an immersive college experience that includes on-campus dorm rooms, meals, field trips, lectures, and projects introducing you to the world of design. By immersing you in design and engaging you with faculty and current students, our goal is to instill you with the confidence to start your design education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ®’s School of Architecture and Design. For more information, visit www.soad.louisiana.edu SOADideogram

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The Foundation studios are sequential; their main focus is to arouse, nurture, and challenge the creative process of each student. The Foundation studios engage all students enrolled in our three majors: Architecture, Interior Design, and Industrial Design. Our educational objective is to formulate projects that are oriented around a singular theme, subdivided into three or four projects per semester,

the conclusion of each generating the next. This way, inquiry about essential design issues is dealt with gradually and progressively within carefully chosen parameters. This serves the purpose of limiting and focusing each project’s content to insure that mastry of basic skills takes place prior to introducing more complex ideas.

DSGN 101 Self-Portrait Collage Mask Song Poster Song Map DSGN 102 Fashion Memorial Pretty Ugly No More Waste

Foundation Studios Fashion Show photographs courtesy of the Acadiana Advocate.

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First Year Design, Fall

what was manifested within the collage.

The theme for this year was Self Reflection: offering an opportunity for our students to consider their personal convictions, passions, and aspirations.

The collage is based on adjectives identified by the students as words that convey aspects of their own personality. The Mask project expands those aspects with the intention to express, via a wearable feature,

To conclude the 101 semester, students were given a list of rock and roll songs from which they selected a tune that resonates with their personality; the didactic challenge was to translate the emotive content of the song graphically. Students depicted this in a Song Map that analyzed and expressed the song’s full-time length through graphic means.

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Then, students selected a palette of materials, no larger than 1/2,� that they worked within the grid in order to evoke the song’s emotional flavors and intensities.

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First Year Design, Spring During the spring semester of first year, the students designed and crafted a fashion garment based on the song of the previous semester. The intention and design challenge for this semester is the translation of emotive and cultural content from one medium to another. All students auditioned in order to participate in the Annual Fashion Show,

which is attended by over two hundred people.

All Fashion Show photography pictured here have been provided by the Acadiana Advocate.

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As a final project, students intending to major in Industrial Design work on the No More Waste project in chich they are asked to find an object of value that had been discarded, then redesign that object in a meaningful and useful way.

Students choosing to major in Architecture or Interior Design were asked to design a ‘Monument for the American Rebel’ of their choice - anyone from William Penn to Steve Jobs, from Abigail Adams to Harper Lee. Sited on the National Mall, the Monument project offered students an opportunity to reflect and convey the unique spirit, determination, and courage that are emblematic of all those individuals who have contributed to making us a vibrant and unique nation.

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The School of Architecture and Design Interior Design Program focuses on preparing students for a professional career in interior design. Students learn to address both the functional and aesthetic needs of interior spaces in order to enhance quality of life, increase productivity and protect health, safety and welfare of the people who inhabit those spaces. As a student in our program, you will learn

how to develop design concepts and create spaces that are aesthetically pleasing and appropriately functional in the context of a collaborative design environment that also addresses the structural, mechanical, and electrical needs of each project.

Students learn foundational theories of color and design as well as the basics of codes and standards as applied to a variety of interior space types.

SECOND YEAR Three Cube Hotel THIRD YEAR Community Center Learning Environment Live / Work FOURTH YEAR Office Space Senior Project

Interior Design Projects vary in terms, size, scale and complexity, offering students a wide range of studio experiences. A senior project in the final semester of the program offers each student the opportunity to create and develop an independent project of his/ her own choosing. In addition to course work, students have professional networking opportunities through the newly organized IIDA

Campus Center. Our program is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).

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Interior Design: Second Year, Fall In the 1st semester studio, students explore spatial organization through research, historic residential examples, and a study of ‘Form, Space, and Order’ by Ching. Within a basic three-cube form, students design a residential space in plan and section simultaneously. Students explore the movement of natural light and shadow, horizontal

and vertical circulation, and spatial relationships through the placement of planes, openings, stairs and access points. Students develop their designs in a 3D model and in 2D drawings where an emphasis is placed on the role of line quality in expressing spatial relationships.

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Interior Design: Second Year, Spring INDS 202 students also conduct a study of hotel rooms in Italy with a focus on room layout, the surface treatment of floors, walls, and ceilings, and on the furnishings and equipment that are typical in this locale. Students are introduced to the application of mechanical systems, and fire and egress codes. In the context of a historic building in

Italy, students design both a typical room and one floor of a hotel that meets code requirements and provides necessary services and circulation.

Students are required to use metric dimensioning.

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Interior Design: Third Year The 3rd year interior design studio experience focuses on two broad areas: mixed-use developments in general and micro living environments in specific. The Community Development Project, in collaboration with LSU Interior Design program, was a six-week studio project aimed to create a suburban mixed-use

residential community. The ‘community’ of this project refers to a group of people with common characteristics or interests living together within a larger society.

The design process included form and space manipulation based on conditional and operative design studies in order to create space for social, educational, and recreational activities. The space

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planning, circulation, and furnishing selection all contributed to establishing a relationship between community and design.

In the 302 studio, this micro-living apartment builds upon the residential rebirth in downtown Lafayette.

The project involves a group of eight townhomes that allow for work below and living above, all within walking distance of Lafayette’s city center.

The site is located at the corner of W. Congress and S. Washington Streets on the border of an established residential neighborhood, and steps from the downtown public library. The target market for the live/work space is entrepreneurs who want to establish businesses that will reach the downtown community and who will live above these businesses to enjoy the relaxed lifestyle afforded there. This development aims to enhance the lives of its residents, provide services and products for those living in the area, and enhance the growth of downtown Lafayette.

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Interior Design: Fourth Year, Fall The fall 4th year interior design studio focus is on large scale commercial development, often including corporate design of large offices and public spaces in urban locations. Illustrated on these pages are lobby designs by 4th year interior Design students that illustrate their understanding of this spatial type and use office furniture systems,

lighting design, and digital rendering to explain their ideas.

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Interior Design: Fourth Year, Spring In the final studio of senior year, each interior design student conducts a senior project of choice.

Students program these projects the semester before, and then design the project in INDS 402.

These projects have run the gamut from hospitality projects to healthcare, from retail to resort. In Trisha Faulk’s project, influenced by the social nature of

bees and the geometric structure and strength of honeycomb, this design is intended to stimulate positive community interaction and encourage a balanced, healthy lifestyle both physically and mentally. Activities within the space promote mental and physical well-being in an environment that fosters community bonding through group endeavors. A neutral color palette is used

throughout, while specific accent colors distinguish individual activity spaces and set the mood and tone for each space. Aerobic exercises have been proved to reduce anxiety and depression. These improvements in mood are proposed to be caused by exercise-induced increase in blood circulationto the brain. Other hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the beneficial effect.

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The Industrial Design Program is known for its hands-on, team-development approach, its innovative thinking and problem-solving nature.

Our faculty have diverse professional and educational experiences and share a common vision of design education while always striving for excellence, . They emphasize sensitivity towards the environment, user needs, professional behavior,

innovative thinking, and technical expertise.

Students are encouraged to collaborate inside and outside of class and partake in a rich studio culture.

Our graduates are employed as industrial designers in diverse multinational corporations and are contrasted by many whom, using their entrepreneurial skills and education, then form their own businesses.

SECOND YEAR Tongs Product Packaging Mechanical Toy Health & Wellness THIRD YEAR Ergonomic Handle Power Tool Human Interaction FOURTH YEAR Transportation Studio Senior Capstone

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Industrial Design: Second Year, Fall The fall semester 2nd year industrial design studio emphasizes the making process, whether it is drawing or model making to stimulate questions and possible solutions inherent to an identified design problem. Importance is placed on the dialogue between class participants, and what is reaped from this interaction.

The excitement of problem solving and selfdiscovery is at the very center of this design studio.

Historical connections, user needs, ergonomic factors, environmental and social concerns, the search of form through function, the understanding of product in relation to its production, will all be areas of investigation and research. Each student will create a unique web of information relevant to

his or her design convictions and based on the research of a problem that they have isolated.

The final challenge of this course will be to take this complex and often contradictory information web, and through the process of 3D drawing and a hands-on model making approach, arrive at a unique and elegant product solution. This hands-on approach will be investigative in nature and will

emphasize the design process; questions asked and answered, rather than focusing exclusively on the end product.

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Industrial Design: Second Year, Spring The Spring semester industrial design studio builds on the design knowledge gained in the previous semester. At this stage, there is an emphasis on preparing students for the discipline that is required for the professional world and more directly required for 3rd year. Importance is placed on graphic communication and the skill sets that allow students to be competitive in the design field. 65 universal principles of design are reviewed and studied as supplemental information to enhance a better understanding of the cognitive

make-up of the human species. There is a continued focus on craftsmanship and a hands-on approach to design in this studio. The approach is investigative in nature and emphasizes questions asked and answered rather than focusing exclusively on the end product. Students are required to design a process book that supplements their projects. This book contains a problem statement, market and user research, ideation drawings, 2D drawing exploration, images of 3D-exploration, orthographic measured drawings, an exploded view drawing, and an appearance model money shot.

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X-ACTO CUTTING KNIFE TASK ANALYSIS

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Locate knife

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Pick up knife

Hold material steady

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Slice through selected material

Follow through on cut

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DESIGN GOALS

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Facilitates pencil grip

Create an ergonomic, Affordance for affordable and index finger aesthetic knife. placement

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Develop a grip that accommodates both the pinch and the pencil grip.

Facilitates pinch grip

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Create a knife grip that facilitates accurate and steady cuts

Both sides dip in to accommodate left and right handed users

Rubberised material that is easy to grip

Industrial Design: Third Year, Fall The fall semester studio continues to develop and expand on the craft skills, visualization skills, and three dimensional digital modeling techniques gained from the 2nd year studios. Students address a variety of design issues and learn to apply stateof-the-art analytical research and benchmarking methodologies in the development of problem

statements whose solution is a product. Students also have an introduction to basic rapid prototyping techniques in the creation of 2 and 3-dimensional prototypes and models that must interact with the human form. At the end of the semester, students develop a physical appearance model, presentation, and comprehensive document of the project and process taken to achieve the final form.

SKETCH IDEATION|

MODELING|

Detachable HDPE plastic sleeve that pivots as you push/pull the pin

Rubber finger ridge on sleeve for increased control and comfort of your dominant hand

Nonstick surface to prevent dough from sticking

SAMUEL V RIEHL

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will be ready for internship applications come summer. Students learn advanced modeling, The spring semester studio expands on skills and hands-on craft skills, & advanced rapid prototyping abilities gained in previous semesters. In this class, techniques through an iterative modeling process. students address a variety of design issues and At the end of the semester, the students develop learn to apply ethnographic research methodologies a physical appearance model, visual presentation, in the development of products designed for users. and comprehensive documentation of the project Students learn advanced digital visualization and process taken to achieve the final form. techniques and build a portfolio of their work that

Industrial Design: Third Year, Spring

POCKET CLIP The pocket clip keeps the flashlight securely in your pocket for carrying with you everyday

2 AAA BATTERIES Each third of the flashlight holds two AAA batteries that power each light

HINGES The three light sections fold on these hinges to close the light

BATTERY DOOR D-Rings on the battery door flip out and unscrew to insert the batteries

TAKE IT OUT, FOLD IT UP, USE IT.

Lights off when open in your pocket

MAGNET SLOTS Magnets fit into these slots and hold the flashlight shut when in use

Folds up and clicks with magnettic closure

GLASS LENSES The lenses of the flashlight are recessed into the frame so they stay damage free

When shut, lights come on automatically

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Exploded View

Interchangeabe parts Can accomodate left or right arm Ability to fit different types of handlebars Customizable

Final Model Orthographics

Slide and Rotation Slide and rotation allow for a natural steering motion without compromising arm, wrist, or elbow support

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Industrial Design: Fourth Year, Fall The Fall semester encompasses real-world problem solving where collaborations are formed with industry and/or government through the Transit Design Studio. The TDS has worked with The Metro Planning Organization of Lafayette, University Parking and Transportation Department, the Red Cross, Louisiana Emergency Medical Units Inc.,

local industries, and manufacturers. Furthermore, exciting collaborative ventures have been formed with diverse University programs: Ragin’ Marketing, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Sciences. Projects range from Human Powered Transportation, Autonomous DARPA Vehicle, LNG Bus Design, Hurricane Shelters, and Survival Gear among others. The Ultra Light

Elevated Autonomous Rail System was a joint project with the City of Lafayette and the University.

The studio places an emphasis on sustainability, health and wellness, user input, as well as improving the physical environment through the investigation of way finding and mobility systems in the movement of people within the University campus and Lafayette cityscape.

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Backpacks & mesenger bags can cause harm to the body. How can these issues be resolved?

neck & shoulder pain/injury due to uneven distribution of weight hip & lower back pain/injury due to uneven distribution of weight spine misalignment due to uneven & too much weight

thick straps that distribute the weight on both shoulders heavier items on the bottom center & closest to the back weight of bag under 15% of bodyweight

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Industrial Design: Fourth Year, Spring The spring semester studio concentrates on project descriptions, aesthetics, product development, materials and processes, design mechanics, universal and sustainable design. The goals and objectives encourage students to develop project that represents their particular interest which employs all they have learned about: product description, ideation, product design development, manufacturing, marketing, presentation and researching phenomena relative to the design objective. Digital and hand built systems are

employed in 2D and 3D models. Projects require prototypes to demonstrate functionality and may require part production outside the university. Students are expected to work in and with the senior thesis committee members and interface with real-world conditions. This major research will be the senior thesis project. This activity acts as a segue into the design and development of the senior exhibit installed at the University Art Museum at the Senior Show.

Our graduates are employed in diverse fields with companies such as Ford Motor Co, NASA, Cessna Corporation, Cris Craft, Incat Crowther.

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Our architecture program aims to develop intelligent and ethical design methods through the exploration of the four architectural environments: physical, social-cultural, technological, and professional. Second Year explores relationships between architectural thinking, media experimentation and the phenomenological dimension of architecture. Third Year begins the

Professional Studios containing the Urban Studio’s 20-Year Master Plan for Lafayette’s blighted neighborhoods and the design of catalytic urban buildings. Fourth Year holds the most comprehensive projects: from sketches to construction details, extensive climatic assessments to compliance with building codes and participation in national and international design competitions.

SECOND YEAR Site and the Senses Cane Field Design Build Brewery THIRD YEAR Downtown Mixed-Use FOURTH YEAR Comprehensive Design Studio Design Competition Studio

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Architecture: Second Year, Fall A time of transition from general to more architectural design strategies, the 201 studio attempts to initiate an awareness of the sensory potential of architecture by focusing attention on the means through which our bodies perceive the world. Considering site for the first time, students are asked to explore and map a park over an

extended time period; to find expressions of phenomenal awareness and to carefully and critically document those phenomena. This investigation requires reaching beyond face-value observations to explore space, time, light, and path and how these elements contribute to place, threshold, movement, and transition. Additionally, students develop their skills of visual

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communication by experimenting with a variety of media and techniques to represent their findings.

Through trial and error and the critical but supportive feedback of peers and faculty, students learn that this work is about more than what a single individual wants or thinks is good. Part of making something critical is making it relevant beyond one’s own subjective desires. Students

come to the understanding that architecture is not inert; it affects the way a person sees, hears, and feels, whether or not the effect is intentional. The small-scale architectural interventions which result are vivifiers of the unique assets of the studied site.

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Architecture: Second Year, Spring

questions, students develop criteria for judgment The second year architecture studios create an open that in turn develops a systematic means of inquiry.

The structure of the studio is open and dynamic and dynamic group environment that encourages the development of a critical way to ask and answer because the design work the students pursue is complex and collaborative. Through trial and error questions using visual language. By asking critical questions, students exercise judgment and through and the critical but supportive feedback of peers and this, learn the virtue and reward of prioritizing. Thus, faculty, students learn that this work is about more than what a single individual wants or thinks is a design process develops. By engaging critical

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good. Part of making something critical is making it relevant beyond one’s own subjective desires.

The goal is to exhaust the possibilities. Over the course of the second year studios, students begin to see things anew, to be curious about their own work and constantly ask what if? As they become comfortable with uncertainty, communicating visually, and translating the abstract exercises of the foundation studios into an architectonic form, they come to know they are on the path.

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Architecture: Third Year, Fall The Fall Semester begins with exploring and assessing the neighborhood adjacent to our campus, which is defined by University Avenue, Jefferson Street, Lamar Street and Pinhook Road.

Out of this study, the students generated a twentyyear master plan, one that promotes urban, mixedused developments. Moreover, from this proposal,

all of the architectural projects designed throughout the year are selected. Thus, following the master plan, it was decided that McKinley Street was the most propitious zone for triggering the urbanizing of the whole district.

Each student was assigned a narrow lot along this four-block street. Their first assignment was to fictitiously create their clients, and thus program

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their intentions for the selected property. The only restriction was that it had to be mixed-use, and four-storied, with the first-level being retail and/or restaurant, bar, or coffee shop, etc. The second story needed to be offices, and the third and fourth floors need to be residential.

Students demonstrated an awareness of exterior skin/fenestration, structural, mechanical, and electrical systems in their designs as well as addressing building code issues. In addition, the students utilized the most advanced computermodeling and rendering technology in the development of their designs.

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Architecture: Third Year, Spring The Third Year is oriented towards the urban dimension of architecture; thus, our students were asked to choose a property along the twenty-year master plan conceived in the previous semester; then, they were to propose a suitable program, and subsequently design a building for the selected site.

The process of designing a building moves from a

comprehensive site analysis to formulating a site strategy; one that is the most responsive to site conditions and the programmatic requirements.

In the next stage, students generate a building scheme that grows in complexity as it gradually, progressively, and judiciously incorporates more of the programmatic content. This exploration was undertaken in a variety of media, from sketches and

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models to digital. Each studio day, students submit their latest design iteration; the faculty then assess their progress, with progress defined as clarity of intention and the growing complexity of each resolution.

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Architecture: Fourth Year, Fall The 401 Architecture studio comprises the first comprehensive project undertaken by an architecture student in the School of Architecture and Design. Projects explore the relationship of building to the city. The students explore fundamentals of urbanism, architecture, and architectural detail through their drawings and

models. The studio is centered on pertinent urban and architectural issues such as how a mixed-use building operates within the urban fabric and how its program activates a fragmented city through formal and spatial compositions.

The analysis of city, space, place, street, and materiality develops concepts on which students can base their building designs. Test case studies of

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urban building allow students to integrate best practices into their conceptual designs. Study of the wall section, plan, elevation, building code review, and egress, help students to build a complexity of architecture within their design solution.

Professional architects are integrated into the studio critiques to review student projects for accuracy, detailing, choice of materials, and integration of building systems.

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investigations often result in an architecture that works in tandem with social conditions or political Architecture 402 is the conclusion of the policies that are already ingrained in an existing undergraduate architectural studio sequence. The culture. At this intersection, an architecture is found required design processes and associated that can be as adaptive and resourceful as the investigations of this studio seek to explore and people it engages. In the project shown here, the expand a working understanding of ecology, re-purposing and re-configuration of materials, site, culture, reclamation, urbanism, infrastructure, and policy as they inform architectural interventions. The and policy allows for an informal community on the

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fringe of Asunciรณn, Paraguay to find refuge from flooding within the informal pockets of the city. The architecture becomes transitional, adapting to the transient needs of both the informal community and the permanent residents of the city.

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The graduate architecture studios in the SOAD are the cornerstone of the Master of Architecture program and provide our students with hands-on experience helping cities, small towns, and neighborhoods visualize their potential as communities; design and build sustainablydesigned, market-rate homes; and work in the Louisiana coastal territory to reduce environmental

vulnerability, enhance ecosystem resilience, and promote cultural sustainability. The graduate architecture program offers a broad range of design research through our community-outreach topicbased Institutes.

ARCH 501 Atchafalaya Basin Lafayette Strong Pavilion ARCH 502 I-49 Connector ARCH 509 Master’s Projects

Master of Architecture

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Architecture: Fifth Year, Fall Architecture 501 is the first studio in the graduate architecture studio sequence. Sited in the Atchafalaya Basin, the projects of 501 investigate architecture as it relates to the complex cultural, ecological, and infrastructural relationships that reside within this environment.

Students form groups based on common focal interests and create schemes with a wide range of resolutions. Students have the opportunity to design these projects with periodic feedback from members of the ecological research community.

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The Lafayette Strong Pavilion design build project encompassed a master plan for a public sculpture park and an interpretive outdoor classroom and rest area. A gridshell structure (an open lattice of wood laths, primarily in compression, in an upside down catenary curve) was selected. The pavilion provides shelter, a place for contemplation, and also serves as a sculptural expression. Engineering

development, the completion of construction documents, and full-size mock-ups were completed in 2015. Construction was completed by graduate students during the fall 2015 semester. The project includes seating, lighting, a storage area, and a dedication/information plaque and provided an immersive, hands-on experience in innovative structures, materials, and processes.

2015.04.07

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Master Plan: An Urban Greenspace at the Heart of Lafayette

Intervention Section ii

Architecture: Fifth Year, Spring Architecture 502 is the studio that is dedicated to the students’ professional development of social and environmental responsibility to: work in the public interest; understand the relationships between people, place, and context through cultural and historical precedent research and analysis; improve the quality of life of the client and

community; and design resilient proposals for the management and modification of the natural and built environment. The studio serves as a design to explore the nature of problems and potentials with which architecture is concerned. Students are challenged to develop a response that transforms the existing context through strategic interventions in a variety of scales.

Johnston St. Axon

Jefferson St. Axon

Perspective of Intervention Greenspace

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Master Plan: Leisure / Recreational Generator

Master Plan: Cultural Generator

Perspective of Johnston St.

Perspective of Leisure Program

The I-49 Lafayette Connector, a 5.5 mile segment of highway that will extend from I-10 to the Lafayette Regional Airport, functions as an evacuation route, energy and trade corridor and connector between Lafayette and New Orleans. Urban-scaled themes were explored by student teams and served as the driver of the projects. Through the four themes (environment, culture, recreation, and economics) issues related to mitigation and stewardship, regional identity and neighborhood history, connectivity and quality of life, development and infrastructure were explored.

FULL BERM CONDITION

PARTIAL BERM CONDITION

PARTIAL BERM CONDITION

Enlarged Plan: Cultural Generator

WALL CONDITION Railroad Crossing Alternatives

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Master’s Projects & Theses The student’s academic investigation comes to fruition through the Master’s Project and we, the faculty, perceive this studio as the threshold that after passing, the student becomes a peer. It is our belief that we have equipped each student with the essentials of our discipline as well as with a broad and diverse grounding to have developed their own

unique trajectory that will guide them and their work throughout their career. We embrace this diversity. Through the independence, leadership and professionalism that is expected in this studio, it is an opportunity to demonstrate a capacity to both become a member of our profession and to expand the definition of that profession. Cathryn Core’s thesis project explored the idea that

t o f i t a 6 ’ x 2 0 ’ t r a i l e r . Th e r e m a i n d e r o f t h e i n s t a l l a t i o n w a s c o m p l e t e d o n - s i t e . 9 0 % o f t h e l u m b e r u s e d i s r o offcut cypress and pine donated to the project.

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architecture should strike the senses with comprehensibility and lend itself to the performance of the human condition. Architecture should not only encourage the activation of the space, it should serve as a vivid signifier of place, encourage connectivity and enable the mapping of humanness in the urban condition. Andrew Simpson’s master’s project is a private enterprise initiative to address unprecedented population growth and economic development from industrial investment in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It addresses the immediate but short-term need for worker housing while creating a new typological condition. The project’s construction facilitates the transformation of it from working housing into luxury condos as needs and economic drivers of the region change.

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F lo r e n c e

The School of Architecture and Design offers two exciting six-week summer study abroad opportunities; one based in Paris, France and another in Florence, Italy. These two courses are designed to take full advantage of the cultural and historical resources of Paris and its environs. The daily schedule allows students to explore Paris and the immediate areas while receiving college-level

instruction from knowledgeable, dedicated professors.

Through the classes offered, you might learn about the celebrated art collections at the MusÊe d’Orsay or the Louvre, visit the glorious Palace of Versailles, or sketch or paint the major gardens and other sites of these cities. As part of every class, you will visit some of the most influential buildings, design, and

Paris

S t u dy A b r oa d art and gain a new perspective on the world. Take this opportunity to open yourself to new cultures and new ideas and to return home with a broader outlook and enriched educational experience. In addition to scheduled class meetings, excursions, and field trips, long weekends allow students to travel independently to neighboring countries in Western Europe.

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IDSA

IIDA

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is the world’s oldest, largest, member-driven society for product design, industrial design, interaction design, human factors, ergonomics, design research, design management, universal design and related design fields. IDSA organizes the renowned International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) competition annually; hosts the International Design Conference and five regional conferences each year.

IDSA’s charitable arm, the Design Foundation, supports the dissemination of undergraduate scholarships annually to further industrial design education.

IIDA is a community of people driven by a common love for design and committed to the belief that interior design, as a service to people, is a powerful, multi-faceted profession that can positively change people’s lives. IIDA Student Membership provides students enrolled in an interior design program the resources they need for educational and professional development that are not available on campus. These benefits are exclusive to IIDA Student Members and give aspiring designers unique opportunities to build professional connections that extend well after graduation.

Faculty Advisor: Adam Feld

Faculty Advisors: Nadya Kozinets, Brian Powell

Student Organizations AIAS

NOMAS

The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) is an independent, nonprofit, student-run organization dedicated to providing unmatched programs, information, and resources on issues critical to architectural education. The mission of the AIAS is to promote excellence in architectural education, training, and practice; to foster an appreciation of architecture and related disciplines; to enrich communities in a spirit of collaboration; and to organize students and combine their efforts to advance the art and science of architecture.

The UL chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) prides itself on being dedicated to championing diversity within the design professions and promoting excellence, civic engagement, community engagement, and the professional development of its members regardless of race, orientation, gender, creed, background, and/or perspective. Weekly chapter meetings are held to encourage academic support, design scholarship, and community service, serving as a neutral place for discussion about minority issues within the design profession.

Faculty Advisors: Ashlie Latiolais, Thomas Cline

Faculty Advisor: Kiwana McClung

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The School of Architecture and Design engages our undergraduate and graduate students with the community in a variety of ways from hands-on research to performance art. The Research Institutes engage with small towns, neighborhood groups, government agencies, and non-profits. The Community Design Workshop is an urban design studio that collaborates with small towns,

neighborhood groups, the University, and the City of Lafayette to provide a vision for development and redevelopment. The Building Institute is an integrated project delivery, design-build studio.

Students work in the local community thereby becoming agents of change. The Coastal Community Resilience Studio is a University cross-discipline research center allowing faculty

RESEARCH INSTITUTES Building Institute Coastal Community Resilience Studio Community Design Workshop Sustainable Development Lab Transit Design Studio

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS L’eau de la Danse Hidden Garden State of LA Dance

Research and students to investigate issues pertinent to the coastal Louisiana environment. The Sustainable Development Lab is a research and practice laboratory inside the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ÂŽ that integrates design and entrepreneurship in a model of economic development and community engagement.

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Outreach

Outside of our research institutes, our students also have the opportunity to engage in other design projects in collaboration with a range of other fields in the arts and beyond.

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Building Institute The Building Institute (BI) is UL Lafayette ™’s integrated project delivery, develop-design-build institute. The Building Institute provides an opportunity for students to act. It is founded upon the belief that the act of making meaningful architecture requires our students to take responsibility for their designs: culturally,

socially, politically, fiscally, and technically.

Students design and build projects, which range in size from small site installations such as seating and play areas to large-scale projects such as pavilions and housing.

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Proposed Design= 9,838 Acre Feet of surface water

Bayou Grand Maries

Gulf of Mexico

Expanded Floodplain Levee Weir

Existing Edge Condition

Coastal Community Resilience Studio The Resilience Studio is a transdisciplinary educational and research initiative. Collaborators in the Resilience Studio include: the School of Architecture and Design, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Child & Family Studies, the School of Geosciences, the Institute for Coastal and Water Research, and the Regional

Proposed Edge Condition

Application Center. Driven by project-based problem solving, the Resilience Studio links disturbances, land-use transformations, and climate change to natural processes and human system adaptation. The Resilience Studio’s collaborative decision-making process reduces environmental vulnerability, enhances ecosystem resilience, and promotes cultural sustainability.

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government agencies. CDW projects are developed through the ARCH 502 studio and are continued in the summer by employing University faculty and students. The CDW is designed to assist communities to envision their future by establishing a collaborative effort through public workshops and charrettes. The CDW is exploring possibilities for Lafayette’s I-49 Connector.

Perspective of Chestnut St.

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to CULTURE co-Lab Dedicated Police Sub-station & Federal Highway 190 I-10 mixed-use development The collaborative projects and 314 Stewart St 711 Stevenson St Culture co-Lab brings together 124 Cailouet Pl Saint Ann’s Infirmary Hebrewcultural Rest #2 Cemetery into the City of Lafayette research thatGateway explores resource management and development as a vehicle for sustainable, economic development.

Demas Building: Private Partnership

Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church

301 E Convent St

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314 Stewart St

The Sustainable Development Lab (SDLab) is a research and practice laboratory inside the University of Louisiana, Lafayette that integrates design and entrepreneurship in a National of Historic Places model of economic development and community engagement.

The coreRegister knowledge base Four Corners Nodal Re-Development of the Lab is in high-performance building design and the sustainable development thatHistoric District Freetown-Port Rico it supports. Housing, density development and opportunities related to this development Lafayette Parish, LA work provides the occasion to combine the creative, innovation-based pedagogy of the Contributing/Non-Contributing Resource Map School of Architecture and Design (SoAD) with the practical, market driven innovation of entrepreneurship.

D ECULTURE S I G N E N T R E P R E NDENSITY EURSHIP + S u s ta i n a b l e D e v e l o p m e n t

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“Tax credits encourage the preservation and continued use of historic buildings by offering economic incentives for their rehabilitation. The Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation administers three historic rehabilitation tax credit programs [see above]. These programs have helped preserve many historic buildings throughout Louisiana. They not only of-fer an incentive to preserve historic buildings, but also act as a major force in economic development. The use of tax credits encourages private sector rehabilitation of historic buildings and is one of the most successful and cost effective community revitalization programs. All three programs generate jobs and create commercial, residential, and industrial spaces within historic buildings. A tax credit is a direct, dollar for dollar, reduction in the amount of money a taxpayer must pay in taxes for a given year.” from LA Division of Historic Preservation website

Louisiana State Historic Preservation Tax Credit

Purpose

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Early in 2016 it was announced that the Freetown-Port Rico Historic District was officially on the National Register of Historic Places! This is the first such designation in the city since the Sterling Grove Historic District was listed in 1984. Lafayette now has two. Residents in the neighborhood are now eligible for certain historic preservation tax credits and the neighborhood is eligible for special consideration in Federally regulated development projects such as the I-49 corridor design. We anticipate the new district will have a strong impact on the way the neighborhood develops.

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The historical narrative for the proposal was developed from the Freetown History Project study previously undertaken by Dr. Michael Martin, Director, Center for Louisiana Studies, Dr. C. Ray Brassieur, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dr. Lionel Lyons, Professor of Geography, Southern University. The submission was developed, refined and edited by the SDLab with the aide of professional consultant Laura Blokker and sent on to the National Park Service in Washington DC to be considered for inclusion in the Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places.

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Nichole L. Lake, Undergrad Research Assistant, Anthropology Todd St. Julien, Graduate Research Assistant, Architecture

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Part 3 is final certification Completion-C is the final certification. of completed work.

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The Dragonfly is powered by a TJ100 turbo jet engine. The engine only weighs 43 lb and is approximately 2 feet long with an outside diameter of 10.5 inches. It produces 1300 Newtons of trust.

Transit Design Studio The Transit Design Studio has partnered with governmental agencies, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ÂŽ, diverse industry, and seven metropolitan planning organizations in Louisiana.

These design projects included conventional and CNG buses, overhead autonomous rail and cable systems, human-powered transit, ambulance,

medical trailers, cycling infrastructure and way finding. It has formed cross-collaborative ventures with the Colleges of Business, Mechanical Engineering and Sciences.

Industrial design alumni are employed in diverse areas of transportation design including automotive, nautical, aircraft, aerospace and public transportation. Bachelor of Industrial Design

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graduates are employed with international corporations such as Ford Motor Company, NASA, Cessna, Incat Crowther, Bell Helicopter, Lafayette Metropolitan Planning Organization, and Yamaha/ Skeeter Boats among others.

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L’Eau De La Dance L’eau de la Danse began as a collaboration between UL Lafayette ™ students, teachers and a prominent water designer Jim Garland of Fluidity Design Consultants. The project became an event and was included as a major occasion for our annual Festival of the Arts. The event included water display, lighting, dance, and music and took place outdoors

in front of the Paul and Lulu Hilliard Art Museum. It was truly a collaborative College of the Arts project and a testament to the fact that when different disciplines get together and share a common goal, major accomplishments are realized.

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of insects. This is just a glimpse behind the gate of “The Hidden Garden” Bamboo Installation. “Hidden Immense insect skeletal structures twitched to life Garden” was a multi-disciplinary theatrical event before creeping and lurching across the dim stage. created to be part of ArTech Fusion 2016 and Projections lit the back of the space as bamboo presented at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. The leaves came in and out of focus, changing angles and direction. Dancers bound onto stage with flexed multifaceted work of art was produced by professionals and students from varying disciplines feet and bent elbows, engaging in a quasi battle within the College of the Arts. with other dancers garnishing the skeletal remains SOADideogram

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ideas of barrier, independence, and singularity transformed into a holistic idea about the FRAGMENTS is an investigation of the overlap in relationship of the body in space. This project joined the creative processes of dance and architecture.

The integration of educators, dance and architecture the typically disconnected professions on common ground to develop choreography and the design/ students, professionals, and local artists developed build components of a performance piece as a a captivating shared architectural language. A study of movement in relationship to the student’s fragment is defined as “an isolated or incomplete part of something,� however, through collaboration, built components.

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Adam Feld, Assistant Professor Andrew Sammataro, Assistant Professor Andy Loewy, Associate Professor Annika Miller, Assistant Professor Ashlie Latiolais, Assistant Professor Brian Powell, Professor, Honors Program Advisor Chad Aldridge, Shop Director, Building Safety

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