Student Design

Civil and environmental engineering students begin and end their academic careers by completing a significant design project.

This year in CE108, each student participated in a 4-5 member team to develop a preliminary design to treat stormwater and to provide flood storage for Colorado State University. The project required several surveying laboratories as well as experience using AutoCAD. Throughout the semester, the teams, acting as consulting firms, collected data used to complete different components of the project in such a way that at the end of the semester they had a complete design for the project.

Civil's two-semester Senior Deign course is the capstone course for civil and environmental engineers where students draw upon their four years of technical skill development to design and complete an engineering project. In the first semester, students learn about proposal writing after which they are divided into teams and assigned a real project for a real client. At the end of the first semester, each team makes a presentation of their proposal to the class and clients. During the second semester, each team refines its plan based on client comments, and tackles the project work. Dr. Larry Roesner, the class instructor, says " Starting with the project development in the first semester through project completion in the second semester, we try to run this class like a consulting engineering operation so that students are prepared to jump right into their new work environments."

2004-2005 Senior Design projects:

• Ski-Hi Rodeo Facility Structural Assessment, City of Buena Vista
  Sponsor: CSU Cooperative Extension
• Power Trail Railroad Underpass
  Sponsor: City of Fort Collins Parks Department
• Structural Renovation of Navajo Dam Building
  Sponsor: US Bureau of Reclamation, Durango
• Retrofit Power Plants in Dolores Water Project
  Sponsor: US Bureau of Reclamation, Durango
• Vallejo Dam Spillway Repair
  Sponsor: US Bureau of Reclamation, Durango
• Spring Canyon Community Park Development - Drainage
  Sponsor: City of Fort Collins Parks Department
• Municipal Facility Siting Study for Buena Vista, Buena Vista Public Works
  Sponsor: CSU Cooperative Extension
• Traffic Engineering Study for Buena Vista, Buena Vista Public Works
  Sponsor: CSU Cooperative Extension
• Design Renovations for Single Family Residence
  Sponsor: Loveland Housing Authority
• Vail Winery - Water Supply Development
  Sponsor: Zancanella & Associates Inc.
• Vail Winery - Water Distribution System
  Sponsor: Zancanella & Associates Inc.
• Vail Winery - Wastewater Collection and Disposal
  Sponsor: Zancanella & Associates Inc.
• Trail Creek Erosion Control Plan
  Sponsor: Robert Donovan
• Spring Canyon Community Park Development - Site Design
  Sponsor: City of Fort Collins Parks Department
• 50-yr Drought Survey for Fire Protection Water Supply, Four Mile Fire Protection District
  Sponsor: CSU Cooperative Extension
• Irrigation System Development, Rabbit Creek Ranch
  Sponsor: Rabbit Creek Ranch
• Design of Lunar Habitat
  Sponsor: Department of Civil Engineering
• Mary Blair Elementary School Traffic Congestion Relief Study
  Sponsor: Loveland Traffic Congestion Task Force
• Trail Creek Road Restoration and Pond Reestablishment
  Sponsor: Robert Donovan
• Dry Creek Detention Pond Inlet Erosion Mitigation
  Sponsor: City of Loveland
• CSU Equine Center Stormwater Management System
  Sponsor: CSU Facilities
• Storm Drainage Study for the City of Buena Vista, Buena Vista Public Works
  Sponsor: CSU Cooperative Extension
• Drainage Study for the Elbert County Fairgrounds, Elbert County
  Sponsor: CSU Cooperative Extension
• Centre Street Stormwater Treatment Facility
  Sponsor: CSU Facilities