The class is a “studio” format which will require significant work outside of class time. Each component will require autocad work, cost estimating, and a planning board presentation of their design. (I am the Mayor on the Planning Board and the Q & A session is a lot of fun!)
There are three major components and two site planning exercises:
Single Family: The class will be given a 36 acre topo and boundary survey with wetland areas to use in preparing a single family subdivision layout.
Multifamily: A boundary and top survey will be used to prepare a site plan including buildings, parking, access, water, sewer, and drainage facilities.
Mixed Use Project: A 245 acre boundary survey will be used as a base map in preparing a horizontal mixed use land plan.
Commercial Site Plan – as an in-class exercise, the students will prepare a site plan for a small commercial site plan.
Vertical Mixed Use – as an in-class exercise, the students will prepare a site plan for a small vertical mixed use site plan.
Vertical Mixed Use – as an in-class exercise, the students will prepare a site plan for a small vertical mixed use site plan.
There are NO undergraduate land development concentrations in civil engineering at any university other than at UNCC. The Studio class approach allows the students to fully develop their interpersonal skills while working in a team format with strict schedules. They get to use their creative design skills to complement their technical skills.
I have always mentored that I can always find someone to draft, calculate and design. The civil engineer with excellent interpersonal skills and creative thinking will be the generation that produces sustainable land development projects in the future. The land development classes at UNCC allow the students to explore beyond the technical! As UNCC civil engineers are hired by land development engineering firms, developers, and government, they will have less of a learning curve than their peers from other schools.
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