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Over the past decade, UMaine Civil Engineering students have worked with nearly 50 municipalities and a dozen schools, non-profit organizations, and other groups around the state of Maine to provide preliminary engineering on issues including stormwater mitigation, coastal resilience, pedestrian and vehicular transportation safety, town center revitalization, wastewater and solid waste infrastructure, wetland restoration, hydropower and aquaculture facilities, bridge replacements, and development of recreational areas. The student work has helped these municipalities and other organizations make preliminary decisions, prioritize work efforts, determine budgetary requirements, and apply to private, state, and federal sources for funding. The projects primarily come from a request sent to Maine’s town managers, although many come via word of mouth. New efforts are underway to use the connections of our second- and third-year students to their hometowns to increase the visibility of our program and to provide civil engineering student role models to high school students. The initial phase, currently underway, is developing training materials that would allow our students to productively meet with town engineers and managers, school district superintendents, heads of local utility districts, and similar owners and managers of civil engineering infrastructure. The students would learn what issues their towns face and how they might help resolve them. In parallel, students would make presentations or hold workshops with local high school students showing them how civil engineering relates to them and their locales in an effort to increase interest in engineering as a career.

Publication Date

10-28-2024

Undergraduate Civil Engineering Projects in Maine

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