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| Segue to service learning
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| Purdue senior Bob Graves zips around
a Chicago art gallery on a Segway vehicle. Senior landscape
architecture students incorporated the two-wheeler into their
service-learning project, revitalizing a section of downtown
Chicago. (Photo by Tom Campbell) |
A design
project that gives Purdue Agriculture seniors valuable experience
may prove to be a segue into a career after graduation.
As part of a service-learning project, landscape
architecture majors developed plans to revitalize a two-mile
stretch of Chicago’s Central Michigan Avenue. Course instructor
Kim Wilson added a slight
twist by requiring student teams to incorporate a Segway personal
transport system into their design.
“ The Segway is really what made this project
unique,” Wilson says. “I think the students did a great
job of grasping the new technology and making it a part of their
projects.”
Students presented their designs in December to a
jury of professional landscape architects, architects, planners,
artists, transportation engineers and academics. Their designs were
displayed in the gallery at the John David Mooney Foundation in
Chicago.
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