Students Involved

CRDS student designers currently working on this project under the direction of Dr. Jules Bruck are:

Emma Ruggiero, UD landscape architecture graduate, and UD Plant & Soil Sciences Graduate Student Fellow

Joshua Gainey, UD landscape architecture undergraduate student

Mark Switlitski, UD civil engineering undergraduate student

Former CRDS student designers are:

Shannon Brown, UD environmental engineering major who graduated in May 2019 and is currently a graduate student in the geoscience program at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Janelle Skaden, UD civil engineering major who graduated in May 2019 and is currently a graduate student in the ocean engineering program at the University of Rhode Island.

Before the internship started, they were asked to complete several pre-reflection questions about their expectations of working in an interdisciplinary team. Here is one reflection by Shannon Brown that encapsulates the value of interdisciplinary work:

“Each discipline has a different skill set and process. I believe sharing these processes will strengthen both parties. Each process was developed to suit each discipline, but when there is collaboration in a project it is important to combine multiple disciplines in a way that highlights the strengths of each. I think combining both the processes and skill sets of landscape architecture and engineering will prove to be very valuable. While the engineer’s point of view is more practical and rigid, the landscape architectural perspective is more fluid and adaptive. I think that there are strengths to both of these viewpoints, but the strongest is the combination. When you combine both of these outlooks, it is like using a decision matrix that weighs feasibility and creativity.” – Shannon Brown, January 11, 2019

 

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