Grant recipients
Nadine Ibrahim, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rania Al-Hammoud, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jeffrey Casello, School of Planning
Sina Golchi, Graduate Research Assistant
Kareem Mostafa, Graduate Research Assistant
Sara Al Humidi, Undergraduate Research Assistant
(Project timeline: September 2019 - August 2020)
Description
How cities grow and function is the endeavour of engineers and planners, among others, however, urban topics are taught in independent siloed courses, and undergraduates in these disciplines lack the opportunity to work collaboratively together in creative design settings. An experiential learning opportunity is proposed as a 2-day design event for students in both Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Planning. The project activity seeks to promote interdisciplinary design thinking through communication and leadership, both within and among teams, thereby breaking the silos and creating learning synergies. The project will investigate experiential learning by engaging student teams in designing neighbourhoods, and collectively all teams contribute to designing the whole city, while exploringintradisciplinary and interdisciplinary communication as an innovation to the pedagogy for urban studies. The students’ success will be measured by the communication to develop the neighbourhood elements and to assemble and connect neighbourhoods to form the overall city.